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DC vs MI IPL 2025: Three mistakes made by Delhi Capitals

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The 29th match of the IPL 2025 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium was an ideal chance for Delhi Capitals to register five wins in a row. They produced a great fight against MI and were in fact cruising till the first half of the second innings. However, Karun Nair’s dismissal saw a dramatic turnaround and Delhi Capitals lost the game by 12 runs in the end.

Mumbai Indians batted first and posted a good-looking score of 205 on the board in the first innings. Suryakumar Yadav (40), Tilak Varma (59), and Naman Dhir (38) made notable contributions to guide their team past the 200-run mark. Delhi responded with 113 runs inside the first 10 overs but kept losing wickets in quick intervals, post that. In the end, Axar Patel and Co. fell 12 runs short of the target.

Looking back, Delhi Capitals would feel that they made quite a few mistakes and would want to rectify them. 

In this article, we highlight three major mistakes DC did against Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025: 

1. Not persisting Kuldeep Yadav for his third over 

Suryakumar Yadav and Ryan Rickleton had taken MI past the 70-run mark inside seven overs and looked dangerous at the crease. Kuldeep Yadav was then brought on in the eighth over and the man in form struck immediately. He got the big wicket of Rickleton (40) in his first over and gave just six runs. His second over was equally brilliant, consistently posing trouble to the batters. 

Suyakumar Yadav was looking to break free and trying to find his rhythm at that time. Perhaps, Kuldeep could have given one more over and he might have picked Suryakumar’s wicket as well. Axar, thought otherwise but felt the need to bring him just two overs, later, and the chinaman got MI’s vice-captain's wicket on the first ball of his second spell. However, the former had reached 40 off 27 by then and handed over the momentum to MI.

2. Not developing a partnership post Porel-Nair alliance

After Jake Frazer-McGurk got out on the first ball, Karun Nair came to the crease as an impact sub. Playing the first game of the season, Nair showed his masterclass with supreme hitting. Be it Jasprit Bumrah, Boult or Deepak Chahar, the Delhi batter didn't spare anyone and played a superb knock of 89 runs off just 40 deliveries, including 12 fours and five sixes. 

He stitched a 119-run partnership with Abhishek Porel for the second wicket. The latter played as a second foil to him, scoring 33 off 25. However, Porel’s wicket in the 11th over saw the game turn on its head. Nair departed in the 12th over and Delhi Capitals kept losing wickets thereafter. They needed just one good partnership but the likes of KL Rahul, Axar Patel, and Stristan Stubbs failed to stay for too long. 

3. Three runouts in the three balls in the penultimate over

23 runs were needed off the last two overs. Ashutosh Sharma had hit two back-to-back boundaries off Bumrah on the second and third delivery of the 19th over, which brought the equation down to 15 needed off 9.

Next ball, Ashutosh guided the yorker towards deep backward point and pushed for two. However, he couldn’t make it and was run-out. Kuldeep Yadav came to the crease with Mitchell Starc at the non-striker's end. On the next ball, Kuldeep Yadav, once again, charged for two on his first ball and was run-out. Mohit Sharma then arrived and on the last ball of the over, the duo pushed for a single and Sharma got out. 

Delhi lost three batters in three balls- all run-out. Mitchell Starc had the opportunity to play all six balls of the final over and eked out a win. However, he went for the single, instead, on the last ball- a decision that was hard to understand. 

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