IPL 2025 DC vs SRH Highlights: Mitchell Starc’s fifer, Faf du Plessis’ fifty lead DC to second win

The 10th match of the IPL 2025 concluded with Delhi Capitals defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets at Visakhapatnam, thanks to Mitchell Starc’s fifer, Kuldeep Yadav’s three wickets, and Faf du Plessis’s attacking fifty. With this victory, Delhi Capitals climbed to the 2nd position in the points table with two wins in two matches.

While batting first, SRH put up a total of 163 in 20 overs, thanks to an amazing 74-run inning from Aniket Verma and a counterattacking 32-run knock from Heinrich Klaasen. However, Delhi Capitals chased down the target quite comprehensively, thanks to fifty from Faf du Plessis and good knocks from Jake Fraser-McGurk and Abishek Porel.

IPL 2025 DC vs SRH Highlights

Pat Cummins, captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad, won the toss in Visakhapatnam and elected to bat first against Delhi Capitals. However, this time, the template of SRH’s batting field was lost as they lost three early wickets of Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, and Nitish Kumar Reddy under the powerplay.

Flexing Muscles ft. Mitchell Starc 💪#SRH end powerplay with 58/4

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Travis Head also managed to put up only 22 runs before Mitchell Starc got him. Then the young Aniket Verma and Heinrich Klaasen give some counterpunches. Heinrich Klaasen scored 32 runs off 19 balls before a stunner by Vipraj got him, and Aniket smashed 74 runs off 41 balls, including 5 fours and 6 sixes. Thanks to his inning, SRH put up a total of 163 in 20 overs.

🆒 Under Pressure 🧊

Aniket Verma is dealing in just sixes and is closing on his half-century 💪

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Faf du Plessis and Jake Fraser-McGurk come out to open for Delhi Capitals. Faf took charge and gave a flying start to DC, while JFM was struggling to connect well. The paid has almost made the game one-sided with their batting.

𝐀 𝐅𝐚𝐟-𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 💪

Faf du Plessis entertained the Vizag crowd before departing for 50 (27) 💙#DC are 96/2 after 10 overs.

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Faf got out to debutant Zeeshan Ansari on 50 runs off 27 balls, and in the same over, the spinner got Jake Fraser McGurk on 38. Ansari also took the wicket of KL Rahul in his next over on 15. However, DC won the match in the end with finishing touches of Abishek Porel and Tristan Stubbs by 7 wickets.

Delhi Capitals Playing XI: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, KL Rahul, Axar Patel, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar

Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Heinrich Klaasen, Abhinav Manohar, Pat Cummins, Wiaan Mulder, Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari