New Delhi: A run-out miss and a dropped catch took a toll on Delhi Capitals, skipper Axar Patel pointed out after their 48-run loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad
in IPL 2026.
Abhishek Sharma made the most of two lifelines to score an unbeaten 135 off 68 balls with the help of 10 sixes and 10 sixes on Tuesday.
Veteran keeper-batter KL Rahul foozled a run out opportunity and then Pathum Nissanka dropped a regulation chance, ending DC’s hopes.
“Run-out chance missed and missed catch did cost us dearly. Had we taken those chances, he wouldn’t have reached where he did. But credit that he took those chances and scored those runs. But yes, good fielding is in our hands and we should have done that,” Patel said after the match.
Later in a post-match press conference, Delhi Capitals’ director of cricket Venugopal Rao also rued those missed opportunities.
“When a player like Abhishek gives you an opening, you have to take it. He gave us chances and we missed them. He offered a run-out opportunity after he had passed 50, and we dropped him again when he was on 84 or 86. We simply paid the price for those lapses,” he surmised.
The loss kept Delhi Capitals in the fifth spot, just outside the play-off slots, with six points from three wins in six matches.
Despite the heavy defeat, Patel didn’t feel the need to bring changes to their core set of players though questions marks have been raised over it.
“Not thinking about making any changes. When wicket is so placid, we should just take this as an off day and forget about it,” he said.
SRH skipper Ishan Kishan was glad that his team could put up a score in excess of 200 on a track that was not tailor-made for stroke-making.
“Don’t have much to say when you have 200 plus score on a track where pitch gets slower and its not easy to hit. Discussions is to take match by match. We have to give ourselves 2-3 balls to understand how the pitch will play. We just watch the ball and play our game,” Kishan said.
