Former India participant Aakash Chopra has highlighted the Delhi Capitals’ (DC) batting points after their IPL 2025 clash towards the SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH). He famous that KL Rahul, the franchise’s most constant batter of their first few video games, has additionally not been amongst the runs recently.
Rahul contributed 10 runs off 14 deliveries as DC managed solely 133/7 towards SRH in Match 55 of IPL 2025 in Hyderabad on Monday, Might 5. Nonetheless, rain and a moist outfield did not enable the hosts to begin their chase, with each groups resultantly getting a degree apiece.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, the former India opener identified that DC’s batting is letting them down, with Rahul additionally going via a lean section of their previous couple of video games.
“Your batting will not be firing. You misplaced religion in Jake Fraser-McGurk. Faf du Plessis has hardly performed one or two knocks. Karun Nair has performed one knock. Abishek Porel has performed two-and-a-half knocks. KL Rahul has performed a couple of knocks. Nonetheless, he has gone off the boil,” he mentioned (8:35).
Chopra puzzled why the guests hadn’t taken a substitute for Harry Brook regardless of their batting struggles.
“After that, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Tristan Stubbs and Axar Patel. You were not imagined to play a punt on them. The place is your substitute for Brook? They have not taken one, and will not get it as properly if they do not take it in the subsequent two days. That story has ended for them,” he noticed.
Aakash Chopra opined that the Delhi Capitals might need difficulties going past 13 factors, highlighting that their final three league video games are towards the Punjab Kings, the Gujarat Titans and the Mumbai Indians. He added that Axar Patel and firm are unlikely to qualify for the IPL 2025 playoffs as they’ve misplaced steam fully.
“Irrespective of how good the group is, in the event you do not play properly, you have got an issue” – Aakash Chopra on SRH’s exit from IPL 2025
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As for the SRH’s exit from IPL 2025, Aakash Chopra opined that final season’s runners-up underperformed this yr.
“Hyderabad’s story can also be over. Not solely the match however their hopes have been additionally rained off. Hyderabad will not make too many modifications in the future. The group was good. Nonetheless, irrespective of how good the group is, in the event you do not play properly, you have got an issue,” he mentioned in the similar video.
Reflecting on Monday’s sport, the cricketer-turned-commentator reckoned that rain probably denied Pat Cummins and firm a straightforward win.
“Pat Cummins bowled extraordinarily properly right here. In actual fact, it wasn’t solely Pat Cummins, as everybody bowled properly. Ashutosh Sharma and Tristan Stubbs took the group to a preventing complete, however that was about it. Hyderabad might need gained this match simply had they received to bat,” Chopra noticed.
Pat Cummins (3/19) was SRH’s most profitable bowler of their IPL 2025 clash towards DC. Whereas Jaydev Unadkat (1/13), Harshal Patel (1/36) and Eshan Malinga (1/28) picked up a wicket apiece, Tristan Stubbs (41* off 36) and Ashutosh Sharma (41 off 26) have been the solely DC batters to attain greater than 20 runs.
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