Axar Patel, Delhi Capitals captain, acquired injured through the facet’s IPL 2025 match in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders in Delhi on Tuesday. The incident occurred within the 18th over, when Axar fell nastily whereas attempting to cease the ball whereas fielding. he instantly left the sphere and seemed to be in ache. Later, he got here on to bat. Nonetheless, he seemed to be in discomfort. Each time he would hit an enormous shot, he appeared seen in ache.
Axar Patel appears to have injured himself and is strolling out with the physio… pic.twitter.com/t8f0dFbEa8
— Rudransh (@rudraaaansh) April 29, 2025
Speaking in regards to the first innings, Kolkata Knight Riders’ under-fire center order lastly delivered as Venkatesh Iyer silenced his critics with a 25-ball fifty whereas Angkrish Raghuvanshi struck a fluent half-century to energy KKR to 200/6 in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad within the IPL on Thursday.
KKR’s new-look opening pair continued to battle, with Quinton de Kock (1) and Sunil Narine (7) falling cheaply after SRH opted to bowl.
However an 81-run partnership by skipper Ajinkya Rahane (38 from 27b) and Raghuvanshi (50 off 32 balls; 5×4, 2×6) laid the inspiration for a aggressive complete.
SRH gained floor within the center overs when 26-year-old Sri Lankan Kamindu Mendis delivered a uncommon sight in IPL historical past, bowling with each arms in the identical over on debut.
The ambidextrous Sri Lankan first bowled left-arm spin to Raghuvanshi earlier than switching to off-spin in opposition to the left-handed Rinku Singh.
The over proved pivotal as he dismissed Raghuvanshi, breaking KKR’s momentum.
Momentum slowed with boundaries drying up for 2 overs, however Iyer (60 off 29 balls; 7×4, 3×6) and Rinku (32 not out from 17 balls; 4×4, 1×6) reignited the innings.
Iyer’s determined pull off a Simarjeet beamer ended the drought, and Rinku smashed three consecutive boundaries off Harshal Patel earlier than Iyer tore into Simarjeet with back-to-back fours.
Rinku capped off the over with an enormous six over long-on, yielding 17 runs.
Iyer was at his belligerent finest in opposition to Cummins within the nineteenth over, hammering the SRH skipper for 4, 6, 4, 4 in succession as KKR notched their first 200-plus complete of the season. The hosts hammered 78 runs in final 5 overs.
Earlier Pat Cummins struck early within the third over, establishing de Kock with a brief ball that was miscued to deep midwicket, whereas Shami dismissed an out-of-sorts Narine with a large yorker that took the sting behind.
From 16/2 in 2.3 overs, KKR recovered via an 81-run stand between Rahane and Raghuvanshi.
Rahane broke the shackles with two crisp pull photographs for sixes off Shami and Cummins, as KKR reached 53/2.
Raghuvanshi complemented Rahane with trendy stroke play, piercing gaps with drives via cowl and sq. area.
His standout strokes got here in opposition to Zeeshan Ansari — a clear lofted six over long-off and a well-placed reverse hit previous backward level. He reached a well-deserved 50 off 30 balls.
Nonetheless, Ansari broke the partnership in the identical over as Rahane gloved a reverse sweep to Heinrich Klaasen.
Captain Cummins’ determination to underutilise spin on a pitch with variable bounce was debatable.
Leg-spinner Ansari bowled simply three overs (1/25), whereas Mendis wasn’t given one other over after his match-turning spell.
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