Man of the Match today IPL 2021: Who was awarded the Man of the Match in DC vs SRH IPL 2021 match?

Dixit Bhargav | 22/09/2021
Man of the Match today IPL 2021: Who was awarded the Man of the Match in DC vs SRH IPL 2021 match?

Man of the Match Delhi vs Hyderabad: The fast bowler from Delhi Capitals was awarded with the match award tonight.

During the 33rd match of the ongoing 14th season of the Indian Premier League between Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Dubai, Delhi Capitals beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets to register their seventh victory this season.

Yet to play five more matches in the league phase, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that Capitals have become the first team to qualify for IPL 2021 playoffs.

Chasing a 135-run target, an in-form Delhi unit always looked in control of the chase sealing it in the 18th over on the back of a match-winning 67-run partnership between former captain Shreyas Iyer (47 not out) and captain Rishabh Pant (35 not out). Playing a competitive match after almost six months, Iyer’s form emerged as the biggest plus for Pant his men in this match.

Man of the Match DC vs SRH

In the first innings, Sunrisers’ captain Kane Williamson’s decision of winning the toss and opting to bat didn’t reap fruits for them as a lacklustre batting display saw them scoring 134/9 in 20 overs.

From losing wickets in the first over to not finding the required momentum, SRH’s batters struggled to get going at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium tonight.

With bowling figures of 4-0-37-3, Kagiso Rabada was the pick of the bowlers for Delhi. However, it was his South African teammate Anrich Nortje who dominated the batters in real sense.

Opening the bowling for his team, Nortje’s bowling figures of 4-0-12-2 saw him dismissing David Warner (0) and Kedar Jadhav (3) tonight. It was Nortje’s express pace which curbed the opposition batters from scoring boundaries.

“Missing out in the first half was disappointing. It was good to have a good start to the tournament for me. Looking at the first game here, it was good to see some grass and then yesterday’s big score – didn’t know what to expect. It was good to keep things simple in the end,” Nortje was quoted as saying by Star Sports after winning the ‘Man of the Match’ award during the post-match presentation ceremony.

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DC Delhi Capitals Indian Premier League IPL 2021 SRH Sunrisers Hyderabad

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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