IPL 2025: Delhi Capitals 2nd in points table after beating Lucknow Super Giants by 8 wickets, match report

IPL 2025: The 40th match of the 18th season of IPL released was played between Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals on Tuesday, 22 April. Let us know that Delhi has won by 8 wickets in this match played at Ekana Cricket Stadium.

Batting first after losing the toss, Lucknow Super Gynts set a target of 60 runs to win in front of Delhi Capitals, which DC later achieved easily by losing 2 wickets on the basis of KL Rahul (57 runs, 42 balls) and Abhishek Porel (51 runs, 36 balls). Also, after this victory, DC took 12 points, the released season’s points have reached second place in the table.

LSG vs DC, 40th match of IPL

If you tell you in detail about the match, then Delhi Capital captain Akshar Patel decided to bowl by winning the toss. After this, while batting first, Lucknow Super Giants scored a total of 159 runs in 20 overs at the loss of 6 wickets.

Opener Aiden Markram scored 52 and Mitchell Marsh scored 42 runs for LSG. Both gave a strong start to the 87 -run partnership team for the first wicket. However, today Nicholas Puran (9) and Abdul Samad (2) were unable to play a big innings. So at the same time, Ayush Badoni in the end scored an innings of 36 runs, and helped the team reach a respectable score.

So at the same time, when we talk about the bowling of Delhi Capitals, Mukesh Kumar got the most four wickets. Apart from this, Mitchell Starc and Dushmanta Chamir got one wicket each.

Subsequently, when Delhi Capitals came to chase this target from Lucknow Super Giants, he easily achieved this target by losing 2 wickets in 17.5 overs. For DC, Abhishek Porel scored 51 and Karun Nair scored 15 runs, while KL Rahul 57* and Akshar Patel 34* remained unbeaten.