Jake Fraser-McGurk enjoys fine IPL debut as DC down LSG

Delhi Capitals ended Lucknow Super Giants' stranglehold on 160-plus defences and lifted themselves off the bottom of the IPL 2024 table with a six-wicket win in Lucknow on Friday. Kuldeep Yadav provided the inspiration on his return from injury before a sparkling half-century on IPL debut from Australia's Jake Fraser-McGurk saw them reel in their target with 11 balls to spare. Subsequent to deciding to bat, LSG created a stammering innings that actually completed over the 160-mark - from which they had never lost while batting first. KL Rahul gave them a quick beginning with 39 off 22 preceding Kuldeep tore out the guts of their line-up in the space of his initial nine balls. Rahul's excusal by Kuldeep left LSG 77 for 5 and their position deteriorated before it improved. With the score 94 for 7 after 13 overs, DC gave off an impression of being on course for a walkover. Be that as it may, Ayush Badoni's 31-ball fifty and a whole stand of 73 with Arshad Khan - an IPL record for the eighth wicket - basically gave LSG's vaunted turn assault something to bowl at. DC, on a run of four losses in five, could have contemplated whether their opportunity had gone. Prithvi Shaw gave the pursuit a punchy begin to settle a portion of the nerves and afterward it was over to Fraser-McGurk, the 22-year-old from Melbourne, to give the firecrackers. His most memorable scoring shot was a pummel for six over profound midwicket and he cleared the ropes four additional times to raise his 50 years from 31 balls. He and Rishabh Gasp left after a stand of 77 off 46 yet by then DC were well on target. Fraser-McGurk keeps shocking ascent It is just a half year since Fraser-McGurk snatched titles overall by breaking Stomach muscle de Villiers' record for the quickest Rundown 100 when he arrived at the separate only 29 balls while batting for South Australia. Surprisingly, that was his most memorable 100 years in proficient cricket, yet he partook in a cutting edge summer that finished in him being covered during Australia's ODI series against West Indies. He hit his third ball on debut for four, his fourth for six, and afterward was out to his fifth. Coming in at No. 3 in Lucknow, following the excusal of David Warner by Yash Thakur, he remained consistent with first standards. His subsequent ball was smacked happily off the front foot over midwicket - a shot his DC mentor, Ricky Ponting, would without a doubt have delighted in - and he then, at that point, sent off a much greater hit over wide lengthy on from his fifth. One more slice for four took him to 16 off seven (with three scoring shots) before the appearance of the LSG spinners to introduce another test. A log jam properly followed, with nine runs coming from his next 16 balls. Yet, when the game had all the earmarks of being back yet to be determined, Fraser-McGurk set free against Krunal Pandya, trucking him over midwicket, additional cover and long-off for three successive sixes that successfully placed a nail in the house side's possibilities. Gasp leads from the front In the midst of Capitals' battles, Gasp has worried about an especially weighty concern: commander, wicketkeeper and star player, and this after over a year out of the game after a fender bender. His anguished visit with umpire Rohan Pandit during the LSG innings, having fruitlessly attempted to survey a wide - Gasp appearing to say he hadn't checked on it in any case - summarized how things have been going. However, after Ravi Bishnoi excused Shaw, through a wonderful jumping get in the profound from Nicholas Pooran, Gasp played a canny hand. In the wake of ticking along at first, and with Fraser-McGurk soothed, he jumped out to his twelfth conveyance to send off Bishnoi down the ground for a gigantic straight six, following it up with a raving success through the covers for four. Two additional limits came in Marcus Stoinis' finished, including a venturesome opposite scoop, to keep DC up with the rate before Fraser-McGurk released. The prerequisite was under a shown a ball to the time Fraser-McGurk cut to profound third and in spite of the fact that Gasp was baffled in the following over, charging at Bishnoi, the difficult work had been finished.