IPL 2023: Delhi Capitals beat Gujarat Titans after Phil Salt dismissed first ball of match

England opener Phil Salt has made 64 runs successful 4 innings successful this year's Indian Premier League

Ishant Sharma expertly defended 11 from the last implicit arsenic Delhi Capitals bushed Gujarat Titans by 5 runs successful the Indian Premier League.

Rahul Tewatia past deed 3 successive sixes to permission 12 from the last over, but Ishant got Delhi implicit the line.

Delhi battled to 130-8, aft being 23-5, including losing England's Phil Salt to the game's archetypal ball.

Gujarat were connected apical from the get-go erstwhile Salt slapped Mohammed Shami's archetypal shot to cover.

It was the 30th clip a wicket had fallen to the archetypal shot of an IPL match, and the 3rd clip it has happened to an England subordinate aft Michael Lumb successful 2010 and Joe Denly successful 2019.

It is the 2nd clip Salt has been retired to his archetypal shot successful 4 innings successful this year's tournament.

Shami was superb, bowling 4 consecutive overs and taking 4-11 to enactment Delhi connected the backmost foot.

But Aman Hakim Khan made his maiden nonrecreational half-century successful 50 and 53-run stands with Axar Patel and Ripal Patel to resistance Delhi up to what was yet a winning score.

Gujarat struggled for fluency passim their innings, with the run-rate consistently creeping up, but with Hardik astatine the crease they were favourites throughout.

Tewatia's devastating hitting disconnected Anrich Nortje turned them into beardown favourites successful the last implicit but Ishant nailed 4 yorkers, including having Tewatia caught astatine cover.

"We would person taken 129 but we conscionable mislaid a mates of wickets and Rahul [Tewatia] got america backmost successful the game," said Gujarat skipper Hardik, who finished 59 not retired disconnected 53 balls.

"I could not capitalise - it boils down to maine arsenic always. I should person won it for america astatine the extremity but I could not get my rhythm."

"Our bowlers were perfectly amazing," said Delhi Capitals skipper David Warner.

"We support uncovering a mode to suffer wickets successful clumps. I don't cognize what is happening with our batting astatine the infinitesimal but we won and got the 2 points."

Delhi stay bottommost of the 10-team array but articulation Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders connected six points. Gujarat are inactive apical but missed the accidental to propulsion 4 points clear.

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