May 9, 2018 by admin

Desperate DD up against Sunrisers

New Delhi, A desperate Delhi Daredevils will have to learn from the mistakes they made in the previous game against table-toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad when the two sides with contrasting campaigns meet again here on Thursday.
Languishing at the bottom of the table with three wins from 10 games, the Shreyas Iyer-led team will have to win tomorrow to have any chance of progressing further in the tournament. They have looked a better unit ever since Iyer took over the captaincy from Gautam Gambhir but small mistakes at key moments have proved fatal for them.
Courtesy a sublime 65 from the highly-talented Prithvi Shaw, Delhi put up a challenging 163 against Sunrisers in their away game at Hyderabad on May 5. But they were unable to defend 28 runs off the last two overs with the experienced Dan Christian and Trent Boult letting the team down. Delhi could have won rather easily if they had held on to the catches of Sunrisers opener Alex Hales and Yusuf Pathan, who eventually got his team over the line with a 12-ball 27. Iyer admits that the same mistakes cannot be repeated. “It is very disappointing, to be honest. We were on top at one point. See, catches win matches, we’ve been practising hard, but drops happen when the pressure is high,” Iyer said.