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In match number 32 of the ongoing Tata Indian Premier League between Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals, the 2022 title-winners faced a horrific defeat by 6 wickets with 12 overs remaining. After winning the toss, the Delhi-based franchise decided to bowl first at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad to chase the target in the 2nd innings, which turned out to be a good decision for Rishabh Pant and Com. as they dismissed the home team on a score of just 89 runs in 18 overs thanks to the incredible bowling and stunning fielding performance by Delhi Capitals team. With this win, Delhi Capitals have got their winning team back, where the whole team is performing really well under the leadership of Rishabh Pant and after the inclusion of Kuldeep Yadav and Mukesh Kumar back to the playing 11, the Capitals are looking forward to reaching to their qualifiers, where they have got the top order batters Jake Fraser-Mc Gurk at the top with Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs in the middle order to take innings forward.
It was a complete attacking play from the Delhi Capitals, where they kept picking wickets at continuous integral, which helped them to get all-out on the score of just 89 runs in 18 overs, making them score their lowest-ever IPL total in front of their home ground. Mukesh Chaudhary picked 3 wickets for Delhi Capitals with 2 each of Tristan Stubbs and Ishan Kishan by giving 14, 8 and 11 runs respectively.
Delhi Capitals easily chased down the target 9 overs thanks to the aggressive start given by Jake-Fraser McGurk in the first power play where he scored 20 runs in 10 balls, which included 3 boundaries and 2 maximus all over the ground.
With this win, the Delhi Capitals team shifted up to 6th position on the points table after winning 3 games out of 7 appearances, having 6 points on the points table with a net run rate of -0.074. The Delhi-based franchise will seen playing its next game, against Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 20th at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.