Punjab Kings vs Delhi Capitals, 64th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

That, boys and girls, is a wrap for tonight. We got SRH taking on Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede tomorrow. It's a must-win for the Orange army. Can they break the five-match losing streak to stay alive? Or will Mumbai record their 4th win? Do remember to join us for that. Until next time, good night and goodbye. Cheers!!

Shardul Thakur | Player of the Match: I always like to perform in crunch times, the last two games were important and I always feel happy when I rise to the right occasion. 6th over was a big over where I got two wickets, they were cruising and in both innings fast bowlers were going for runs in the powerplay and as soon as the powerplay ended, the runs stopped. The spinners came in and did a good job. As a bowling unit we were trying to hit good areas, but after 12th over there was dew which is why we did not bowl Kuldeep Yadav. I'm preparing well and whenever I got the chance, trying to put some score and hoping I will continue my run with the bat.

Rishabh Pant | DC skipper: Throughout the tournament we have been losing one, and winning one game. That's something we wanted to change as a team and we got it. The change of pace from Livingstone was good, so it's part and parcel of the game. Can't be too hard on Warney (Warner) because he has been playing fantastic throughout the tournament. We saved him (Kuldeep) for back half, then the dew came in so we didn't want to give a massive over for someone. It's a 50-50 call. The only process was to take it deep, with spinners getting help and we saw the same pattern happen with the other team as well. We gonna assess the wicket and see how it goes (next game). We will get to know in few days time (regarding Prithvi Shaw's injury update).

Mitchell Marsh: A great win. You can never judge a wicket until both teams bat. The spinners turned the game in the middle overs and 160 ended up being enough. I just look to get as many as I can in the powerplay with the bat before it starts spinning. For the last 18 months, I've had that mentality in the powerplay. I thought it was a really good partnership between Sarfaraz and me. He played some amazing shots. Our innings was sort of a start-stop with wickets. Credit goes to the bowlers; they were outstanding. It was just about getting a partnership going with the bat. We weren't able to quite do that throughout our middle overs tonight to get up to 180. Even 15 or 20 runs can change momentum. [On back to back win] We spoke about that today. It's been one of those seasons where we've been stop start. It's about peaking at the right time. We've got one more to go. We know if we win that, we'll be in the finals. There's a lot of belief and talent in this team.

Mayank Agarwal | PBKS captain: Between 5-10 we lost too many wickets and that's where we lost the game. It was definitely chaseable for the batting we have, and the wicket wasn't as bad as it seemed. There's still a match to be played. Want to go out there and play the best cricket. Still haven't played our best cricket and look forward to doing that in the last game.

23:22 local, 17:52 GMT: First time DC have won two games in a row this season. Been that kinda tournament for them. Also they have done the double against Punjab Kings this season. At no stage did the required run rate looked threatening, but the wickets column proved to be a massive setback as they suffered a terrible collapse which saw them lose 5 wickets in the space of 14 runs during the 5-10th over phase. The ever-impressive Jitesh Sharma waged a lone battle, but he was left with too much to do towards the end, eventually succumbing in the 18th over. If any, his knock ensured Punjab didn't lose by a big margin which could prove very critical come the conclusion of their final game. Shardul Thakur's double-wicket blow at the edge of the powerplay opened the floodgates for the spinners to bowl a few tight overs and to DC's delight, they broke the back of the middle-order with quick wickets, bowling very miserly while at it. All in all, a much-needed win for the Capitals who now have a chance to finish in the top two. Stick around for the presentations...

Best figures for Shardul in IPL:
4/36 vs PBKS Mumbai DYP 2022
3/19 vs PBKS Pune 2017
3/28 vs PBKS Dubai 2021

Thakur to Rahul Chahar, 1 run, drags the full toss to short fine and reluctantly completes the single. Delhi Capitals win by 17 runs and have displaced RCB for the 4th spot.

Thakur to Rahul Chahar, no run, gets his line right this time, Chahar doesn't pick the change of pace and is beaten on the outside edge once again

Thakur to Rahul Chahar, wide, slower ball angled wide of off-stump, Chahar swings and misses

Thakur to Arshdeep Singh, 1 run, dropped! It's Warner of all people. Juicy full toss outside off, Arshdeep clubs it flat and Warner, at long-off, drops a regulation catch running forward to his right. Just didn't stick and he is crossed with himself...

Thakur to Rahul Chahar, 1 run, looks to heave again and mistimes it off the inside half over mid-off

Thakur to Rahul Chahar, no run, slower ball bumper outside off, Chahar asks for a wide but the square leg umpire reckons it's fine. To be fair, it was well over the leaping batter and should have been called a wide

Thakur to Rahul Chahar, FOUR, 122ks short and wide of off, Chahar stays deep inside the crease and clobbers it past the diving effort of Warner at deep extra cover

26 needed off the final over. Kuldeep to bowl? Nope, it's Thakur...

DC spinners vs PBKS this IPL:
Brabourne: 6/45 off 10 overs
DY Patil: 4/34 off 8 overs

Nortje to Rahul Chahar, 1 run, full and wide of off, Chahar toe-ends the slap-drive to the right of long-off and keeps strike

Nortje to Rahul Chahar, no run, delivers the 140ks full delivery from wide of the crease, Chahar can only dig it back to the bowler

Nortje to Rahul Chahar, no run, looks to slice a 140ks wide yorker and toe-ends it to the right of the keeper

Nortje to Arshdeep Singh, 1 run, pacy low full toss outside off, Arshdeep slices it to the left of Lalit at backward point. A slight fumble allows the quick single