Du Plessis and Starc power Delhi to big win over Hyderabad, Rajasthan beat Chennai

Vice-captain Faf du Plessis top-scored with a delightful 27-ball fifty as an all-round Delhi Capitals trounced Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets to remain unbeaten in IPL 2025 at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam.

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After Mitchell Starc's incredible 5-35 and Kuldeep Yadav's 3-22 helped DC bowl out SRH for 163 in their 18.4 overs, du Plessis was at his glorious best to hit three foursandas many sixesin his solid half-century coming at a strike-rate of 185.19.

Hewaswell-supported by Jake Fraser-McGurk (38), KL Rahul (15), Abishek Porel (34 not out) and Tristan Stubbs (21 not out) as DC completed the chase with four overs to spare. For SRH, debutant leg-spinner Zeeshan Ansari shined with 3-42 in his four overs.

Chasing 164, Fraser-McGurk began by slog-sweeping Abhishek Sharma for six, while Faf du Plessis pulled Mohammed Shami for a maximum. Even as Fraser-McGurk struggled to hold his shape and was dropped twice by Aniket Verma and Pat Cummins, du Plessis was at his fluent best-dealing in boundaries off Shami, Abhishek and Cummins, against whom his down the ground six made for an amazing watch.