The DPL 2025 eliminator match, chasing a huge clan at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, marked a huge set as South Delhi Superstars and West Delhi Lions cricketers engaged in continuous warm competition.
South Delhi Superstars, runners -up for playoffs in DPL 2025 from previous edition of DPL; However, he is the first knockout game of the season with West Delhi Lions in the Eliminator match, as Qualifier 1 loser is not knocked out, but gets another chance in Qualifier 2.
The players were kept aside after the tiff between captain Nitish Rana and bowler Digvesh Rathi because the game progressed, it caused another controversy, this time between South Delhi bowler Aman Bharti and West Delhi’s opener Krishnav.
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Tempers enraged !! West Delhi batsman disappears on the bowler after sending unnecessary
The incident occurred a few hours after the first confrontation and mind game between Rathi and Rana. This happened after Aman Bharti’s bowling dismissed West Delhi opener Krishi Yadav.
Chasing a huge target of 202, West Delhi captain Nitish Rana created a decent partnership with the opener; However, the batsman, who was batting at 31, was out in an attempt to hit the bowler on the first ball of the 11th over for a long time.
This was followed by a serious exchange of words between the batsman and the bowler, which increased with the intervention of Sumit Mathur, who got excited and did not hesitate to charge the batsman with an indicated finger. The situation became so intense that the Lady Umpire on the field was assisted by West Delhi captain Nitish Rana, who postponed the situation by placing his arm around Mathur’s shoulder.
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South Delhi Superstars posted a decent goal with captain Tejasvi Dahiya
In the first batting innings, former runners -up DPLs were targeting for new hopes in 2025, as South Delhi Superstars saw an impressive first innings to post a total of total.
After an explosive start with two openers, Anmol Sharma and Ankur Kaushik, with a 67-run standing stand, they faced a mini-kalps, which saw him stumbling up to 78/3. Subsequently, the skipper guarded his batting innings.
Tejasavi Dahiya’s Tejashwi with Big Hitter Sumit Mathur, who scored the Quickfire 48, helped the superstar to lead the superstar in a huge clan with a 108 -run partnership between the two batsmen. He posted a huge 201/5 in his 20-overs, while Hrithik Shokan remained a bowlers’ pick up with 2/28 in his 4 overs.
The Centurion captain DPL sees West Delhi Lions through Qualifier 2 in 2025
West Delhi Lions progressed on DPL 2025 qualifier 2 after their standards registered an extraordinary and unimaginable victory on South Delhi Superstars, and the captain is to be credited to achieve this incredible achievement.
Nitish Rana -led side chased the target of 202, with 17 balls, ie in 17.1 overs, due to the surprising knock with the skipper Nitish Rana, who scored 134* runs off just 55 balls with 8 fours and 15 sixes, his first time in DPL 2025.
West Delhi Lions will now lose Defending Champion, East Delhi Riders, who will lose qualifiers 1 and play in DPL 2025 Qualifier 2 on 30 August at Arun Jaitley Stadium on 30 August.
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