DC vs KKR IPL 2023: Who won today's IPL Match? Check Man of the Match Award Winner

The Delhi Capitals (DC) have finally managed to open their account in Indian Premier League (IPL 2023) as they have defeated the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 4 wickets at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. This is the first victory for the Delhi Capitals in IPL 2023 after having conceded as many as five back-to-back losses. The Delhi Capitals are still languishing at the bottom of the points table but they have secured those two crucial points.

Man of the Match

For the Delhi Capitals, senior pace bowler Ishant Sharma picked up impressive figures of 2 for 19 from his quota of four overs. Axar Patel also came up with a fine all-round performance as he took two wickets and also scored 19 runs to finish the game successfully for Delhi Capitals. However, it was Ishant who was named the Man of the Match award winner in this DC vs KKR IPL 2023 match.

After having lost the toss and being asked to bat first, the Kolkata Knight Riders did not had the best of starts as they ended up losing three big wickets of Litton Das, Venkatesh Iyer and Nitish Rana inside the first six overs of the powerplay. The Kolkata Knight Riders never really found any momentum throughout their entire innings as they kept on losing wickets at regular intervals as they collapsed to 93 for 7 after 14.4 overs. While playing his first match in IPL 2023, Jason Roy scored 43 runs off 39 balls while towards the end, Andre Russell smashed an unbeaten 38 runs off 31 deliveries that included 4 sixes, but eventually, Kolkata Knight Riders bundled out for a paltry total of 127 runs.

For the Delhi Capitals, the likes of Ishant Sharma, Anrich Nortje, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel ended up taking as many as two wickets each. During the run-chase, DC’s Impact Player Prithvi Shaw once again failed to contribute much with the bat as he got dismissed for 13 runs. However, Delhi Capitals captain David Warner led his side from the front with a fine innings of 57 runs off 41 balls that consisted of 11 boundaries.

The Delhi Capitals did lose their way during the short run-chase as they lost a total of 5 wickets for 49 runs. But, in the end, Axar Patel finished off the game pretty maturely with an unbeaten 19 and helped Delhi Capitals cross the finishing line with four balls to spare.

IPL 2023 Point Table

Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	Pts	NRR
Rajasthan Royals	6	4	2	8	+1.043
Lucknow Super Giants	6	4	2	8	+0.709
Chennai Super Kings	5	3	2	6	+0.265
Gujarat Titans	5	3	2	6	+0.192
Royal Challengers Bangalore	6	3	3	6	-0.068
Mumbai Indians	5	3	2	4	-0.164
Punjab Kings	6	3	3	6	-0.298
Kolkata Knight Riders	5	2	3	4	0.320
Sunrisers Hyderabad	5	2	3	4	-0.798
Delhi Capitals	5	0	5	0	-1.488

Orange Cap 2023 List after match 28 of IPL 2023

No	Player	Team	Runs	Mat	BF	Avg	H.S	SR	4s	6s	100s	50s
1	Faf du Plessis	RCB	343	6	206	68.6	84	166.5	25	23	—	4
2	David Warner	DC	285	6	236	47.5	65	120.76	42	—	—	4
3	Virat Kohli	RCB	279	6	196	55.8	82	142.35	25	11	—	4
4	Jos Buttler	RR	244	6	166	40.67	79	146.99	24	9	—	3
5	Venkatesh Iyer	KKR	234	6	139	39.0	104	168.35	19	15	1	1
6	Shikhar Dhawan	PBKS	233	4	159	116.5	99	146.54	29	8	—	2
7	Shubman Gill	GT	228	5	163	45.6	67	139.88	25	5	—	2
8	Kyle Mayers	LSG	219	6	142	36.5	73	154.23	17	15	—	3
9	Tilak Varma	MI	214	5	135	53.5	84	158.52	17	14	—	1
10	Ruturaj Gaikwad	CSK	200	5	133	50.0	92	150.38	10	14	—	2

Purple Cap 2023 List after match 28 of IPL 2023

No.	Bowler	Team	Wkts	Mat	Ovs	BBI	Balls	Avg	Ecn	Runs	4-Fers	5-Fers
1	Mohammed Siraj	RCB	12	6	24	4/21	144	13.42	6.71	161	1	—
2	Mark Wood	LSG	11	4	16	5/14	96	11.82	8.13	130	—	1
3	Yuzvendra Chahal	RR	11	6	24	4/17	144	18	8.25	198	1	—
4	Rashid Khan	GT	11	5	20	3/31	120	15.09	8.3	166	—	—
5	Mohammed Shami	GT	10	5	20	3/25	120	16.7	8.35	167	—	—
6	Tushar Deshpande	CSK	10	5	18.2	3/45	110	20.9	11.4	209	—	—
7	Varun Chakravarthy	KKR	9	6	21.4	4/15	130	18.11	7.52	163	1	—
8	Arshdeep Singh	PBKS	9	6	21	3/19	126	19.44	8.33	175	—	—
9	Ravichandran Ashwin	RR	8	6	24	2/23	144	20.25	6.75	162	—	—
10	Ravi Bishnoi	LSG	8	6	22.3	3/28	135	19.63	6.98	157	—	—