Delhi Capitals vs Lucknow Super Giants, 64th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

That should be it for DC and LSG for the season. LSG though have a game in hand but they have too much to do and even mathematical help won't be enough. Same goes for DC who though have wrapped their campaign up with a win. RR are through as mentioned earlier. SRH have two more games and would need one win to confirm their play-offs spot. RCB vs CSK might well turn out to be a winner takes the last spot kind of a game. IPL usually on the last lap is frenetic and that's exactly what's happening now. Every result ensuring the calculators are pulled out and the permutations and combinations are done. Our maths is done for the day as another game of IPL has ended. Our team of Akshay Maanay, Siva and Kumar Abhisekh Das bids you bye bye!

Ishant Sharma | Player of the Match: The last few games I was trying to bowl a knuckle ball. Even in the last game I got Virat out and today KL. I don't think much. I take it as it comes everyday. If my body is alright, I should thank Patrick [Farhart]. I had some injuries. After the defeats, we were positive and there was belief as well. If you win close games, it gives you confidence to take the momentum forward.

Rishabh Pant | DC captain: Definitely Pooran was giving us a hard time. We had certain plans. The total was good enough. We kept on bowling good balls. I would say the start of the season was with a lot of hopes. Some injuries. We are still in contention even after the last game. We had a better chance of qualifying if I would have had a chance to play in the last game. Personally, it was fantastic to come back. Was heartening to see the support from entire India. Was a long time to wait after one-and-a-half years. I want to be on the field all the time. Don't want to miss any action.

Stats by Roshan Gede

The only other teams with a 100% record defending 200-plus totals in the IPL are MI (14 out of 14) and LSG (two out of two).

DC defending 200-plus totals in the IPL
Matches: 13
Won: 13

DC in IPL 2024
Home: five wins, two defeats
Away: two wins, five defeats

Most bowlers used in an IPL match
16 - RCB vs GL, Bengaluru, 2016
16 - PBKS vs LSG, Mohali, 2023
15 - DC vs LSG, Delhi, 2024
Today was the 20th instance of a team using eight or more bowlers in an IPL innings, the first by DC.

50-plus scores from No.8 or below in the IPL
79*(32) - Rashid Khan (GT) vs MI, Mumbai WS, 2023
66*(34) - Pat Cummins (KKR) vs CSK, Mumbai WS, 2021
64*(25) - Andre Russell (KKR) vs SRH, Kolkata, 2024
64(24) - Harbhajan Singh (MI) vs PBKS, Mumbai WS, 2015
61(28) - Ashutosh Sharma (PBKS) vs MI, Mullanpur, 2024
58*(33) - Arshad Khan (LSG) vs DC, Delhi, 2024
52*(41) - Chris Morris (DC) vs MI, Mumbai WS, 2017

Most sixes in an IPL season
1125 - 2024
1124 - 2023
1062 - 2022
872 - 2018
784 - 2019

Kuldeep Yadav: It was a good wicket to bowl, especially for spinners, 2nd innings I was getting a little bit of rip, was trying to spin the ball as much as I can. The length is key, wicket was slow, so trying to be fuller. The revs is very important, if it's a quick track, it's easy to adjust the length but if it's slow you have to be perfect. I try to push a few balls and revs is very important for any wristspinner. That's how cricket is, we just came here to win the game and we won and that's more important to us. Let's see in a couple of days' time which team goes through.

KL Rahul | LSG captain: I feel the wicket remained the same throughout the 40 overs. When we got JFM out in the first over we should have capitalized, but they - Hope and Porel - showed a lot of intent. We did well at the back end and 200 was a par total, we should have chased it down. This has been a problem right through the season - we keep losing a lot of wickets in the powerplay, we never get a solid start to get the likes of Stoinis and Pooran in, that is the big reason why we are in this position.

23:27 Local Time, 17:57 GMT, 23:27 IST: DC will be pleased that they have signed off with a win here. Technically, they might still make it but their NRR is too much in the negative for them to have realistic hopes of making it to the next round. Only if they had Pant for the last game and they could have performed better. Things might have been a little different for them. LSG needed 209 for a win and they were never in the chase. They lost four in the powerplay and that kind of dented them in the chase. Pooran then sparkled like he has in the entire season and scored 61 off 27 balls. His dismissal would have meant it was all over for LSG but they unearthed a new talent in the form of Arshad Khan. His 58 off 33 balls kept LSG in the game even till the 19th over. But DC just about held their nerves to clinch it. A loss here might have just closed the road for LSG. They would be gutted. Their NRR took a beating in the game against SRH and now this loss. Stay tuned for the presentation...

Rasikh Salam to Naveen-ul-Haq, no run, that's it. DC end with 14 points. Was right up there and Naveen-ul-Haq whipped it back to the bowler. RR are through to the play-offs. KKR already were through. DC have won this by 19 runs

Rasikh Salam to Naveen-ul-Haq, no run, DC will end their campaign with a win. But will it be enough? Not at all. Their NRR is very poor. Was a slower one, outside off, Naveen-ul-Haq looked to heave it and missed it

Rasikh Salam to Naveen-ul-Haq, no run, looks to play the reverse shovel and misses. Was a slower one outside off and Naveen-ul-Haq missed it

Rasikh Salam to Arshad Khan, 1 run, only a single. 20 off 3 shouldn't happen. This is great news for RR, SRH, RCB and CSK. Fuller ball, whipped down to long-off for a single. Arshad Khan has decided to take the single. The ball to be changed with only three balls to go

Rasikh Salam to Arshad Khan, 2 runs, 21 needed now off 4 balls. Fuller ball, Arshad Khan looks to use his bottom hand and gets it down to deep mid. The fielder in the deep fumbled and allowed the second to happen

Rasikh Salam to Arshad Khan, no run, 23 off 5 balls now. Low full toss, was clubbed down to long-off. The bat face twisted on impact

Mukesh Kumar to Naveen-ul-Haq, 2 runs, for a moment I thought he was short. Was a fuller ball, outside off, Naveen-ul-Haq steered it down and got it wide of the man at deep third man. Naveen-ul-Haq decided to come back for the second and dived to make it. Good running from Naveen