Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad, 35th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

287. 277. 272. 266. Four of the top five highest totals in IPL history have been notched up this season. The kind of scores that used to be match-winning totals in the ODI cricket once upon a time. How the tables have turned! Sunrisers Hyderabad have redefined T20 batting with their aggressive approach and it wouldn't be a surprise if they break their own record anytime soon. Will teams manage to come up with different strategies and contain them in near future? Only time has all the answers. For now, it's a goodbye from our side! Good night..

Head, Player of the Match: It's nice, we are on a roll. Boys are playing well, very enjoyable. Just tried to stay relaxed and hit the ball. Need to keep things simple, need to react to the balls. Very pleased to continue with the same form. He (Abhishek Sharma) plays well in the powerplay. He's aggressive against spin, just let him do his things. Very enjoyable partnership with him. It's hard to pick which guys are going to be the (impact) sub, everyone can bowl and contribute. Nice to have a lot of options, we are able to score such high scores because of so many options available. It has also been difficult for our bowlers in the powerplay, but we did an exceptional job tonight. Just getting back into the swing of things (in the shortest format), nice to be batting top of the order.

Pat Cummins: Good record here, another great game of cricket. Need to keep that going. There wasn't much for the bowlers in the powerplay. Got better for the bowlers when the ball got softer. Very excited to see them batting, but got to bowl in the second half. We were really disciplined with the ball, the bowlers executed their plans.

4th consecutive wins for SRH against DC at Arun Jaitley Stadium and DC has won only one out of 7 encounters between these two teams at this venue.

Most boundaries scored in an IPL match
81 - SRH vs RCB, Bengaluru, 2024 [43 X 4s + 38 X 6s]
71 - DC vs SRH, Delhi, 2024 [40 X 4s + 31 X 6s]*
69 - SRH vs MI, Hyderabad, 2024 [31 X 4s + 38 X 6s]
69 - CSK vs RR, Chennai, 2010 [39 X 4s + 30 X 6s]

Bhuvneshwar Kumar: When you’re defending those many runs, we accepted that we will go for plenty of runs. We wanted to keep executing our plans. Just a matter of time before I start picking up wickets and things start going right. We know how good he’s (Natarajan) with his yorkers, he’s a silent guy who keeps working hard. He’s truly a matchwinner. Probably the first time our batting has clicked so well in so many years, as a bowling unit we are happy to take a bit of a backseat. We’ll feel like a score like 220-200 is less but yea great that the batting unit is clicking. Conditions don’t matter, they keep doing the same thing even in the nets. You don’t think much about where the ball is going while bowling in the nets but yes, they give us some nice practice, especially Abhishek and Travis Head. Bowling is something that wins you matches, not sure who said it but they said “batting wins you sponsorships and bowling wins you championships”, I think that’s a great saying. The way we executed our plans is great.

Rishabh Pant | DC Captain - I think the only thought process behind it was there could be dew which didn't come (on choosing to bowl first), but we would still have had a chance had we restricted them to 220-230. The powerplay was the difference, they got (125) runs and we ended up playing catching up after that. The ball stopped more in the 2nd innings, that was more than we anticipated, but when we needed to chase 260, 270, you'll need to keep scoring. Hopefully, we'll come up with more thought process and a clear mindset going forward. His batting has been phenomenal (on Fraser-McGurk), he's been nice for us, that's what we need to do as a team, be together, look at areas where we can improve going into the next game.

23:12 Local Time, 17:42 GMT, 23:12 IST: With the help of this emphatic win, Sunrisers Hyderabad move to the number second spot. Their batting has been phenomenal in the tournament and they deserve to be in the top half of the points table at the halfway stage. The SRH boys smashed (277/3) against MI, they belted RCB by scoring (287/3) at the Chinnaswamy and tonight they posted another massive total (266/7) against the Delhi Capitals. Head, Abhishek and Shahbaz destroyed the bowlers in the first innings as the Sunrisers finished with their third highest total of this season. In reply, Shaw and Warner departed early, however, Fraser McGurk and Porel played entertaining knocks to keep the run chase alive. Once they were dismissed, the boundaries dried up, DC lost momentum and Natarajan came back to clean up DC's tail. He was right on the money with his slower deliveries and yorkers tonight. Kuldeep Yadav claimed four wickets earlier in the evening, however, it was Natarajan's four-wicket haul that proved to be the decisive one. Stay around for the presentations..

Nitish Reddy to Pant, out Caught by T Natarajan!! From 199/6 - Delhi Capitals collapse to 199 all out! Short ball on leg and Pant pulls it straight to the fielder at fine leg. Handshakes all around as the Sunrisers complete a clinical win. Pant c T Natarajan b Nitish Reddy 44(35) [4s-5 6s-1]

Nitish Reddy to Pant, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Nitish Reddy [2.0-0-17-1] is back into the attack

4/19 is the best bowling figure for Natarajan in IPL

T Natarajan to Mukesh Kumar, no run, end of a fabulous spell. 4-1-19-4 - his bowling figures tonight. Short of a length delivery on off and Mukesh Kumar defends it into the off-side

T Natarajan to Mukesh Kumar, no run, low full toss on off, Mukesh Kumar pushes it to mid-off

Mukesh Kumar, right handed bat, comes to the crease

T Natarajan to Kuldeep Yadav, out Lbw!! Another one bites the dust and Yorker Natarajan is on a hat-trick. Kuldeep Yadav looks to flick this away but gets beaten for pace. Rapped on the pads and the replays confirm three reds. Pitching in line, impact in line and it's crashing into the leg-stump. He's on a hat-trick! Mukesh Kumar will face the hat-trick ball.. Kuldeep Yadav lbw b T Natarajan 0(1)

T Natarajan to Kuldeep Yadav, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

Shikhar: Shocking to see Pant playing an off track innings in this kind of run chase. It may dent his chances of being in the WC squad.

Kuldeep Yadav, left handed bat, comes to the crease

Has Natarajan trapped Kuldeep LBW? The onfield decision is OUT and Kuldeep has challenged it..

T Natarajan to Nortje, out Bowled!! Yorker specialist having fun out in the middle. Fires this right into the blockhole, Nortje gets beaten for pace and the stumps have been rattled. The procession of wickets continues as SRH are only two wickets away from cleaning the tail up. Nortje b T Natarajan 0(2)