(If you are viewing this page on The Hindu app, click this link to view the scorecard) Delhi, which takes on Sunrisers Hyderabad in Hyderabad on Sunday night, should be looking for capital gains from it’s top-order, dubbed the future of the India line-up — Prithvi Shaw, Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant. Adding to this is that seasoned campaigner Shikhar Dhawan regained form against Kolkata Knight Riders in the previous game. With the race for qualification having reached the half-way stage, these batsmen should score big against a team that has lost the last two games and will be fighting to avoid a hat-trick of defeats. Delhi’s young guns need look no farther than the legends in the dugout for inspiration — Ricky Ponting and Sourav Ganguly — to sustain the winning momentum. In bowling too, Delhi sports a settled look with pace handled by the fiery Kagiso Rabada, Chris Morris, Trent Boult and Ishant Sharma and spin by experienced leggie Amit Mishra (who might be preferred tomorrow) and left-arm spinner Axar Patel. Read the full match preview here.<doc-sep>The Delhi Capitals bowlers upstaged their Sunrisers Hyderabad counterpart to help them to a third-straight win and move to second in the standings with a 39-run win on Sunday. A 72-run opening stand between David Warner and Jonny Bairstow had set the platform for other to follow-up on but instead they imploded. On the other hand, Capitals’ bowlers didn’t get deterred and reined them in. As a result, for 27 balls from over 6.4 Sunrisers didn’t manage to hit a boundary and with pressure piling up they lost Jonny Bairstow (41) and skipper Kane Williamson (3) – both of them dismissed by Keemo Paul (3/17) -- during that period. Warner tried to break the shackles but looked energy-snapped. His 47-ball 51 wasn’t one of his fluent innings in this edition of the IPL. He had couple of reprieves as well – one miss-hit falling just short of deep mid-wicket and few delivers later a full-blooded shot hit straight back couldn’t stick in Amit Mishra’s hand. But the Australian southpaw’s luck ran out soon after reach his fifty, holing out of the bowling of Kagiso Rabada, failing to judge a slower one, at mid-off. They very next ball Vijay Shankar perished and win it diminished any chances of Sunrisers fightback. Sunrisers lost seven wickets in space of just 10 runs folding out at 116. Coach Tom Moody had admitted during the pre-match press conference that middle-order is a cause for concern for them and they did ring in the changes for this match. Skipper Williamson, playing only his second match this season, looked rusty. Vijay Shankar after doing well initially has struggled to get going. Ricky Bhui and Abhishek Sharma brought in place of Manish Pandey and Yusuf Pathan struggled throughout their brief stay. While Paul and Rabada had got Capitals to the finish line, Chris Morris’ triple strike in the 18thover virtually killed any chances of Sunrisers mounting a late comeback. One of the concerns for Capitals will be the failures of their batsmen to build on the starts, especially Shreyas Iyer and Rishab Pant. Both have just one fifties to their credit. While 30s are considered respectable the think-tank would like to finish off the innings rather than giving away their wickets. Earlier, Sunrisers bowling once again delivered by restricting Delhi Capitals to 155. Leading the pack was Khaleel Ahmed, who was playing his first match of the tournament. The left-arm pacer bowled with pace and accuracy to trouble the Capitals’ batsmen. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took was on the money, bowling the best spell of this IPL.<doc-sep>Delhi Capitals (DC) beat SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 39 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Chasing 156 runs, the home team were off to a flyer as David Warner and Jonny Bairstow added 72 runs in 9.5 overs. Keemo Paul dismissed Jonny Bairstow for 41. The Englishman's innings included 5 fours and a six. Kane Williamson making a comeback after an injury failed to score big as he was dismissed for 3. Thereafter, Warner batting steadily ran out of partners from the other end. The Australian notched up his 40th IPL half-century. But he was dismissed off the very next ball for 51. His innings included 3 fours and a six. Following the dismissal of Warner, the SRH middle-order batsmen wilted under pressure owing to the soaring run-rate. At one stage, SRH were cruising to victory when Bairstow and Warner were at the crease (72/0). However, they were bundled out for 116 runs in 18.5 overs. Earlier, DC scored 155/7 in 20 overs. (SCORECARD) IPL 2019 Highlights Score Updates Between SunRisers Hyderabad vs Delhi Capitals, straight from Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad.<doc-sep>“I take the responsibility as well. I should have batted till the end. It was unfortunate the way I played (on his dismissal), I looked for a boundary but was unlucky to get out,” said Sunrisers Hyderabad leading scorer and opener David Warner, after the team lost to Delhi Capitals on Sunday night. “Yes, we got off to a good start but had too many dot balls between the seventh and 13th overs. But, you should be chasing 10-plus or 11-plus from that position. It is disappointing certainly,” he said. READ | Rabada, Morris sizzle as Delhi beats Hyderabad by 39 runs On being questioned whether too many changes in the middle-order were the reason for the failure, Warner said he didn’t believe in hindsight. “It is part of the process and when you lose experience in the middle, it is quite difficult and challenging for the new guys. But, there are no excuses, we didn’t capitalise on the start and there were more ones and not many twos in which we were otherwise very good,” he explained. “Credit to the Delhi bowlers, they bowled really well. Keemo Paul is a quite skilful, he has those little cutters and the odd yorker,” he said. On how he was feeling to be back in cricket after the one year ban, Warner said it was a great feeling to be seeing the ball well and scoring the runs for the team. “I can’t ask for more and my job is to score runs irrespective of the fact that I was away from the game for so long. I am fresh despite the break,” he said. Colin Munro scored 40 off just 24 balls against a quality SRH bowling attack. PHOTO: K.V.S. Giri For his part, Delhi Captials batsman Colin Munro said he wanted to put the pressure back on Sunrisers by being aggressive even as they were bowling well. “You have to rely on your instincts and past performances, not just sit there and defend, backed my instincts on a good batting wicket,” he said. On his team’s failure to get the push in the death overs in batting, Munro felt that conditions were better in the batting power-play and that the slow bowlers bowled well and wasn’t probably easy to bat later on. He also praised Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy saying that "he is young, calm and collected. He is eager to learn and has a nice bit of relationship with Ricky (Ponting). He is definitely a good leader." On the Delhi unit, he said, “We got a perfect mix of young and exciting players who show absolute freedom with no fear and also experienced international and Indian cricketers. We are working hard and things are on going nicely as we look forward."<doc-sep>
Delhi Capitals bowlers showed greater discipline under pressure, despite shoddy catching, to help the team post a 39-run win and mar the script in what was the 100th match for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here on Sunday. With the middle-order failing the test again, there was nothing much to rave about Sunrisers batting apart from David Warner and Jonny Bairstow's perfect start scoring 72 off 59 balls. Highlights| SRH vs DC: Morris, Rabada shine as Delhi beats Hyderabad by 39 runs Bairstow, after playing some extravagant strokes including a straight six off Chris Morris, lofted Keemo Paul straight to long-off. That triggered a collapse which saw Sunrisers slip from 72/1 to 116 all-out. In his next over, Paul saw captain Kane Williamson’s attempted lofted shot taken brilliantly by a diving Kagiso Rabada at mid-off to put brakes on Sunrisers’ chase. Paul was clearly the pick of the bowlers completing a three-wicket haul without conceding a single boundary. Kagiso Rabada struck a double blow in the 17th over removing Warner and Vijay Shankar to push Sunrisers into a crisis. READ: SRH can go all the way, says Shakib In the 18th over, Morris struck thrice and later Rabada finished with a four-wicket haul to ensure there were no more dramatic twists and turns. Khaleel shines Earlier, Delhi, put in to bat, was rattled by left-arm pacer Khaleel Ahmed, who vindicated his selection in place of Siddharth Kaul with a splendid first spell. MORE FROM IPL 2019 His diagonal line forced opener Prithvi Shaw to slash into wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow’s hands and then induced a poor pull stroke from Shikhar Dhawan only to be caught in the deep in the fourth over of the innings. Colin Munro's 24-ball 40, studded with four boundaries and three sixes, gave Delhi's innings impetus but his cameo came to an when he went for a cut stroke away from his body off 18-year-old left-arm spinner Abhishek Sharma, but edged it to the wicketkeeper in the eighth over. Khaleel and Abhishek both were playing their first match of the season. Captain Shreyas Iyer and southpaw Rishabh Pant then strung together a 47-ball, 56-run stand for the fourth wicket to raise Delhi's hopes before the former was caught behind off Bhuvneshwar Kumar — his 100th scalp for SRH — in the 16th over. In the next over, Pant too was dismissed; his one-handed shot off a low full-toss from Khaleel went straight to the fielder at long-on. Their dismissals meant Delhi ended up with a far less but eventually match winning total.