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2020 Delhi Capitals season
Indian Twenty20 franchise cricket team From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Delhi Capitals is a Twenty20 franchise cricket team based in Delhi, India. The team plays in the Indian Premier League and competed in the 2020 edition between September and November 2020.
Founded in 2008 as the Delhi Daredevils, the franchise is owned by the GMR Group and the JSW Group. The team's home ground is Arun Jaitley Stadium, located in New Delhi. Delhi capitals Delhi Capitals qualified for the finals first time in IPL 2020 after twelve years of the start of this tournament,[1] and qualified for the IPL playoffs in 2019 for the first time in seven years.[2] But they lost to Mumbai Indians in the final by 5 wickets and finished as runners up.
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Retained players: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Shikhar Dhawan, Ishant Sharma, Axar Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Sandeep Lamichhane and Keemo Paul.
Released players: Colin Ingram, Colin Munro, Manjot Kalra, Hanuma Vihari, Chris Morris, Jalaj Saxena, Ankush Bains, Nathu Singh and Bandaru Ayyappa.
Traded In: Ravichandran Ashwin and Ajinkya Rahane
Traded Out: Sherfane Rutherford, Trent Boult and Rahul Tewatia
Replacement players: Praveen Dubey[3]
Auction
The Capitals went into the auction with a purse of 27.85 Cr INR. Delhi Capitals retained 14 players and bought 8 players in the IPL Auction 2020. Their best purchases were Shimron Hetmyer for INR 775L and Marcus Stoinis for INR 480L. They were fortunate to get the services of Jason Roy and Chris Woakes at their base price. In addition to that, Delhi Capitals got Alex Carey for 240L INR.[4]
Players bought: Jason Roy, Alex Carey, Shimron Hetmyer, Chris Woakes, Marcus Stoinis, Lalit Yadav, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Sharma.
Team analysis
ESPNcricinfo' wrote The team of Delhi Capitals wanted to buy Eoin Morgan, Glenn Maxwell, Sam Curran, Pat Cummins and Jaydev Unadkat in the auction, but this could not happen. In such a situation, the team had to turn to other options. The team used their limited resources to dominate the home ground. No batsman of the team could bowl. However, the franchise did a good job by buying Hetmyer and Alex Carey.[5]
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On 20 September, the Delhi started with a win in the tournament, defeating Punjab's team in the super over. This thrilling match ended in a tie. Shreyas Iyer lost the toss and was put to bat. Delhi scored 157-run with the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. Team had lost early wickets, but Marcus Stoinis brilliant inning helped the Delhi to build a 157-run target. In response to 158 runs, Punjab also scored 157-run in 20 overs on Mayank Agarwal's knock of 89 runs.[6]
On 25 September, the Delhi Capitals enjoyed their second successive win, defeating Chennai Super Kings by 44-run. Shreyas Iyer lost the toss and was put to bat. Prithvi Shaw (64 off 43 balls) got the support from Shikhar Dhawan (35 off 27 balls) to build a 94-run partnership for first wicket and helped the Capitals finish the innings with 175/3 in their 20 overs. Chasing the target of 176, Super Kings got off to a poor start as they lost both their openers quickly, but Faf du Plessis (43 off 35 balls) and Kedar Jadhav stitched a partnership to keep Super Kings hopes, but their team managed only 131/7 in 20 overs.
On 14 October, during the 30th match of IPL against Rajasthan royals Anrich Nortje bowled the fastest ball (156.22 km/h)and he also bowled out Jos Buttler.
After winning 7 out of 9 games, Delhi were placed at the top of the table with 14 points.[7] However, they lost 4 consecutive games after it which rendered them vulnerable to be knocked out of the tournament.[8] A victory in their final league stage match against Royal Challengers Bangalore ensured them a place in the playoffs.[9] They reached the Qualifier 1 where they lost to Mumbai Indians by 57 runs.Then they won the Qualifier 2 against Sunrisers Hyderabad with Marcus Stoinis taking 3 wickets and scored 38 runs.Delhi reached their first final and played against Mumbai Indians.Mumbai Indians won comfortably by 5 wickets to win their fifth title.At the end of the season,Rabada was awarded the Purple Cap for taking 30 wickets.
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- Players with international caps are listed in bold.
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Results by match
Source: Fixtures
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
League table
Source: IPLT20.com
The four top ranked teams qualify for the playoffs.
League stage
Delhi Capitals 157/8 (20 overs) |
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Kings XI Punjab 157/8 (20 overs) |
- Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to field.
- Super Over: Kings XI Punjab 2/2 (1 over), Delhi Capitals 3/0 (0.2 overs)
Delhi Capitals 175/3 (20 overs) |
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Chennai Super Kings 131/7 (20 overs) |
- Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to field.
Sunrisers Hyderabad 162/4 (20 overs) |
v |
Delhi Capitals 147/7 (20 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Delhi Capitals 228/4 (20 overs) |
v |
Kolkata Knight Riders 210/8 (20 overs) |
- Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field.
Delhi Capitals 196/4 (20 overs) |
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Royal Challengers Bangalore 137/9 (20 overs) |
- Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.
- Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore) became the first Indian player to reach 9,000 T20 runs.[11]
Delhi Capitals 184/8 (20 overs) |
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Rajasthan Royals 138 (19.4 overs) |
- Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Delhi Capitals 162/4 (20 overs) |
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Mumbai Indians 166/5 (19.4 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat.
Delhi Capitals 161/7 (20 overs) |
v |
Rajasthan Royals 148/8 (20 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat.
Chennai Super Kings 179/4 (20 overs) |
v |
Delhi Capitals 185/5 (19.5 overs) |
- Chennai Super Kings won the toss and elected to bat.
- Shikhar Dhawan (Delhi Capitals) scored his first century in T20s.[12]
Delhi Capitals 164/5 (20 overs) |
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Kings XI Punjab 167/5 (19 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat.
- Shikhar Dhawan (Delhi Capitals) became the fifth player overall and the fourth Indian to reach 5,000 IPL runs.[13] He also became the first player to score two consecutive 100s in the IPL and became the fifth player to score multiple hundreds in a single season.[14]
Kolkata Knight Riders 194/6 (20 overs) |
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Delhi Capitals 135/9 (20 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Sunrisers Hyderabad 219/2 (20 overs) |
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Delhi Capitals 131 (19 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Delhi Capitals 110/9 (20 overs) |
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Mumbai Indians 111/1 (14.2 overs) |
- Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.
- Mumbai Indians advanced to Qualifier 1 as a result of this match.[15]
Royal Challengers Bangalore 152/7 (20 overs) |
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Delhi Capitals 154/4 (19 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
- Royal Challengers Bangalore qualified for the playoffs and Delhi Capitals advanced to Qualifier 1 as a result of this match.[16]
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Playoffs
- Qualifier 1
Mumbai Indians 200/5 (20 overs) |
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Delhi Capitals 143/8 (20 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
- Qualifier 2
Delhi Capitals 189/3 (20 overs) |
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Sunrisers Hyderabad 172/8 (20 overs) |
- Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bat.
- Final
Delhi Capitals 156/7 (20 overs) |
v |
Mumbai Indians 157/5 (18.4 overs) |
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Statistics
Most runs
- Source: ESPNcricinfo[17]
Most wickets
- Kagiso Rabada was awarded the Purple Cap as the bowler who took most wickets during the tournament
- Source: ESPNcricinfo[18]
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Awards and achievements
The following players were awarded the player of the match award during the tournament:
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