Mitchell Marsh was Player of the Match for his four wickets and half-century in DC's loss to SRH.
Set a target of 198 runs, Marsh led the way with a brilliant 63 in 39 balls and kept the DC in the game along with Phil Salt, who made 59 in 35 balls. But once, they were dismissed, Indian batters in Priyam Garg, Sarfaraz Khan and Manish Pandey failed to come to the rescue.
Despite Akshar Patel’s 29* in 14 balls, DC fell short by 9 runs in the end, finishing on 188/6 in 20 overs.
Speaking at the post-match press conference, Marsh defended the Indian batters in the DC side.
He said: "We got a lot of belief in all of our players. There's some inexperienced players in our lineup, but you got to have faith, you got to throw those guys in there and I don't think the game was lost there tonight. There were certain areas of our game where we lost the game. That certainly wasn't one of them.”
"If you look back at our season, we can't blame anyone but we've lost a couple of really close games. It's extremely hard to win games in IPL. And unfortunately, we've been on the wrong side of a couple of really close ones. But there are a few positives coming out tonight. But ultimately, I think chasing 195 was probably far too many on that wicket,” Marsh added.
Marsh, apart from his half-century, had also taken 4 wickets in SRH innings, and was named the Player of the Match for his efforts.
"I think his (Klaasen) innings certainly was a game-changing innings, to be able to go out there on that wicket and start the way he did and take the game onto the fence. He's been in very good form for Hyderabad. So fair play to him,” Marsh said.
Marsh ended by saying that the team will assess a few areas as it wasn’t a 195 wicket.
(PTI inputs)