Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals, 32nd Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: Indian Premier League, 2018 Venue: Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Date & Time: May 02, 08:00 PM LOCAL

Delhi kept their hopes alive of reaching the playoffs with a 4-win over Rajasthan © BCCI

So that's a wrap of things for tonight. A long one considering the rain delays but what a game we have had. A run-feast and the crowd at Kotla surely got their money's worth. On that note we leave you. Enjoyed doing the blog. Until next time, goodbye and good night. Take care.

Rishabh Pant is the Man of the Match - It is going great for me. Win is more important for me. No added responsibility for being the retained player. I am using some different tricks to counter the bowlers. We are being positive because we know if we lose one more match we are out of the tournament. Intent is the same in every match we play.

Shreyas Iyer - It was a very important victory for us. This wicket is very good and even 200 is very less, bowlers kept there nerve and we came back strong. I dropped the catch but we won the match, we should look forward. Start that Shaw is giving is amazing and Pant role in the middle is pivotal. It is important for us to win all the match. Ponting is a positive guy and no one is thinking negative in the dressing room. It is difficult to ball with ground being small, it is really tough to control when batsmen starts hitting.

missed a trick by not sending in K. Gowtham a bit earlier. Maybe even ahead of Stokes but definitely ahead of Tripathi.

what a coincidence Both matches of dd vs rr has been rain affected

SHAW SHOW ..!! Great innings !

.... What a talent!!!!💫

points table is such that both team will be happy to get 1point each at this stage. Instead of losing 2

@ShortDarcy in place of @ish_sodhi makes no sense. I mean you got @josbuttler not in form, why still continuing with him while @ish_sodhi showed good skills last match? Not fair.

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Trent Boult and Avesh Khan have marked run ups. Liam Plunkett too. Gautam Gambhir is receiving knock downs too. That talks a bit about their combinations. Let us not make any assumptions though, pings Vishaal from the venue.

Update from our man at the venue

What happened in the first fixture between these two sides?Rajasthan made 153/5 in their 17.5 overs before rain came to spoil the party. In a shortened fixture, chasing 71 for a win in six overs, Delhi could only manage 60 thereby giving their opponents a 10-run win.

Jofra Archer's unavailability for the first five games of the season has proven to be a blow. He has come back and made an impact in both the games he has played. There has been chopping and changing of foreign personnel by the Royals with the South African Heinrich Klaasen still yet to make an impression.

Their opponents, Rajasthan Royals too have had a mixed season. They have won just three of their seven games and are locked in a mid-table scrap for the playoffs. In their last game against SRH, they weren't able to chase 152 despite their skipper Ajinkya Rahane batting right through till the 20th over. Many critics blamed his slow batting for their eventual loss. He made 65 off 53 but couldn't take his side over the line.

A hello and a warm welcome to our live blog of the match between Delhi and Rajasthan at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi.

So where does this leave Delhi? They have played 8 games and with two wins are perched at the bottom of the table. Every game from now on is a must win and tonight's game against Rajasthan Royals is the first of their six finals. Nothing should go wrong if they are to have any chance of making the playoffs. It has been done before, so Delhi should still feel hopeful.

Nothing has gone right for Delhi Daredevils this season. The original captain Gautam Gambhir gave up captaincy after five games as his batting form took a nosedive. There was no other option left for him as his side had won only one game out of the five till then. Out went Gambhir - from the team as well and - in came Shreyas Iyer as the new skipper and promptly showed the way with the bat as his blazing 93 off 40 balls against KKR led to their second win. A great start for Iyer, right? But it came all crashing down against Chennai in the next game as their bowling was taken to the cleaners by Shane Watson and MS Dhoni.

The buildup