Lower-order rally helps depleted Delhi Capitals beat Mumbai Indians

Lalit Yadav and Axar Patel put on 75 in five overs to turn a tricky situation into triumph for the Capitals, who wrapped up the win despite missing five of their seven overseas players for this fixture

Mumbai: Mumbai Indians 177-5, Delhi Capitals 179-6 - Delhi Capitals won by four wickets

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A flashbang seventh-wicket partnership between Lalit Yadav and Axar Patel guided Delhi Capitals to victory in their opening outing of the 2022 Indian Premier League season.

Yadav and Patel put on 75 in five overs to turn a tricky situation into triumph for the Capitals, who wrapped up the win despite missing five of their seven overseas players for this fixture.

For Mumbai Indians, it is yet another opening-day defeat. The franchise has still not won their curtain-raiser since 2012. 

Reflecting on this defeat, they will wonder how they failed to end that run at the Brabourne Stadium on Sunday. 

^{Axar Patel goes on the offensive for Delhi Capitals (screengrab/BCCI)}

Having posted a competitive total of 177 for 5, thanks in the main to Ishan Kishan's 48-ball 81 and 41 from Rohit Sharma, they had Delhi 72 for 5, and then 104 for 6 with less than seven overs remaining.

However, they did not bargain for Patel's fireworks.

The allrounder flicked the switch and went hard at the Mumbai attack, helping his side take 24 from one Daniel Sams over and ending up with 38 not out from 17 balls. He hit two fours and three sixes.

Alongside Yadav, whose 48 not out was positively pedestrian by comparison (38 deliveries), Patel made sure Delhi enjoyed a winning start to their campaign.

Sams' four overs went for 57, while the extent of Delhi's counter-charge was laid bare by the extraordinary figures of Jasprit Bumrah, whose 3.2 overs cost 43.

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