Delhi Capitals defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 17 runs in a high scoring IPL 2020 Qualifier 2 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi and with this win Delhi Capitals qualified for the IPL final for the first-ever time.
Earlier Delhi Capitals won the toss and opted to bat first. The new opening pair of Shikhar Dhawan and Marcus Stoinis gave a good start of 86 runs in just 8 overs. Rashid Khan broke this stand by removing Stoinis for 38 runs. Dhawan brought up his 50 but Shreyas Iyer struggled at the other end and got out. In the end, Shimron Hetmyer's 42* off 22 balls and Dhawan's 78 helped Delhi to post a big total of 189/3 on board.
In reply, Sunrisers Hyderabad had a very poor start as captain David Warner got out for just 2 runs off Rabada bowling. Manish Pandey and Priyam Garg played some good shots but Marcus Stoinis dismissed both the batsmen in the same over and at 44/3 Hyderabad was in big trouble. Jason Holder too couldn't do much and got out for 11 runs.
Kane Williamson was rock solid at his end and brought up his fifty and got good support from Abdul Samad. In the last 4 overs, Hyderabad needed close to 50 runs but in the quest of quick runs Kane Williamson and Abdul Samad also got out, and eventually Sunrisers Hyderabad finished on 172/8 and suffered a 17 runs loss.
All the major stats and facts from Qualifier 2 between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Abu Dhabi :
1 - For the first-ever time Delhi Capitals have qualified for the IPL final. They're the last team of the current eight teams to qualify for the final.
First IPL final for eight active IPL teams -
RR / CSK - 2008
RCB - 2009
MI - 2010
KKR - 2012
KXIP - 2014
SRH - 2016
DC - 2020
5 - Marcus Stoinis is the fifth player to score 30 plus runs and take 3 or more wickets in the same IPL play-off match.
Players to score 30+ runs and take 3+ wickets in same IPL play-off match -
52 & 3/10 - Shane Watson (RR) vs Delhi Capitals, 2008
56 & 3/22 - Yusuf Pathan (RR) vs CSK, 2008
33* & 3/17 - Kieron Pollard (MI) vs CSK, 2010
34* & 3/19 - Rashid Khan (SRH) vs KKR, 2018
38 & 3/26 - Marcus Stoinis (DC) vs SRH, 2020
6 - Kane Williamson became the sixth batsman to score two fifty-plus scores in IPL playoffs in the same season.
Batsmen to score 2 fifty-plus scores in IPL playoffs in the same season -
Dwayne Smith, 2013
Suresh Raina, 2014
Lendl Simmons, 2015
David Warner, 2016
Shane Watson, 2019
Kane Williamson, 2020
20 - Rashid Khan took 20 wickets at an economy rate of 5.37 in this IPL season - only the fourth bowler to take 20 or more wickets at an economy rate of fewer than 6 in an IPL season.
20 or more wickets in an IPL season at en economy rate < 6 -
21 - Anil Kumble @ 5.86 in 2009
28 - Lasith Malinga @ 5.95 in 2011
24 - Sunil Narine @ 5.48 in 2012
22 - Sunil Narine @ 5.47 in 2013
20 - Rashid Khan @ 5.37 in 2020
29 - Kagiso Rabada has taken 29 wickets in this IPL season so far - the most wickets by any bowler for Delhi Capitals in an IPL season.
Most wickets for Delhi Capitals in an IPL season -
29* - Kagiso Rabada, 2020
25 - Morne Morkel, 2012
25 - Kagiso Rabada, 2019
20 - Anrich Nortje, 2020
19 - Ashish Nehra, 2009
19 - Umesh Yadav, 2012
Most wickets in an IPL season -
32 - Dwayne Bravo (CSK), 2013
29* - Kagiso Rabada (DC), 2020
28 - James Faulkner (RR), 2013
28 - Lasith Malinga (MI), 2011
27* - Jasprit Bumrah (MI), 2020
603 - Shikhar Dhawan has scored 603 runs in this season so far - the second most runs for Delhi Capitals in an IPL season.
Most runs for DC in an IPL season -
684 - Rishabh Pant, 2018
603* - Shikhar Dhawan, 2020
534 - Gautam Gambhir, 2008
521 - Shikhar Dhawan, 2019
495 - Virender Sehwag, 2012
