Mayers, Wood lead LSG's rout of DC
An explosive 38-ball 73 from Kyle Mayers on IPL debut and a blistering spell of fast bowling from Mark Wood, who was featuring in only his second IPL game, razed Delhi Capitals in Lucknow.
Mayers might not have even played this game for Lucknow Super Giants had Quinton de Kock been available for the franchise. He was dropped on 14 by Khaleel Ahmed and in the powerplay, he managed only a run-a-ball 17. The left-handed batter then lined up Capitals' left-arm spinners Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav to finish with almost two runs a ball; Super Giants finished with an above-par 193 for 6 on a challenging pitch.
Wood then took the pitch out of the equation and knocked over Prithvi Shaw and Mitch Marsh with 147kph thunderbolts. He went onto become the second England player after Dimitri Mascarenhas to bag a five-wicket haul in the IPL. Though Capitals' new captain David Warner made a half-century, he couldn't keep in touch with the mounting asking rate. Capitals eventually fell short of their target by 51 runs.
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