DC vs LSG IPL 2025 live score: Delhi Capitals clinch thriller by one wicket as Ashutosh does it

And DC have won this. What a match. What a performance by Ashutosh Sharma. He slams a six down the ground to take DC home.

16 from that over too. Ashutosh doing it here. 6 runs needed off the final over. However, Mohit will face now.

Ashutosh gets 17 off Bishnoi's despite the Starc wicket. And now Kuldeep hits a four and is gone run-out. 

The timeout has done trick. Vipraj was dismissed by Digvesh and now Bishnoi gets Starc. DC in big trouble again.

20 from that over and DC are back into this. Vipraj is on 39 off 14, Ashutosh on 31 from 23. DC need 42 off 24.

Vipraj Nigam, who took a wicket earlier, is now playing a good hand with the bat. He is on 31 off 11. DC need 62 from 30. This is not over yet

The change of ball works wonders for Siddharth and LSG. Stubbs slammed back-to-back sixes but as soon as the ball is changed, the bowler cleans Stubbs up. 

Even though this is looking very difficult, Ashutosh and Stubbs have kept DC hanging by a thread here. 

Delhi are falling like nine pins here!! After Axar, Du Plessis departs and this match seems to be ending soon. DC are 65/5 in 7th over. Ravi Bishnoi strikes in his first over!!

Well, Well!!! Axar Patel is OUT!! A massive breakthrough this! Digvesh Singh strikes for LSG. Delhi are 50/4. Axar Patel scored 22 runs off 11 balls. Du Plessis has to bat till the end now.

Delhi Capitals skipper Axar Patel has come out firing all cylinders!! He is playing his shots and is clear with his mindset. Vice-Captain Faf du Plessis is playing with him and a partnership is building for DC..LSG have to be careful!!

It is falling apart for Delhi Capitals here! THe side has lost three wickets very quickly, now the run chase of 210 runs look mammoth. Axar and Faf du Plessis have quite the task on their hands. 

Shardul Thakur has taken the second wicket! Abhishek Porel walks for a duck, DC now 2-2!

Sharul Thakur has drawn first blood! Delhi Capitals' run chase has a huge dent now!. McGurk departs for just one run. DC's score reads 2/1 now. 

Jake Fraser-McGurk and Faf du Plessis are out in the middle. Shardul Thakur has recieved the new ball as the run chase of 210 run begins.

LSG have ended short here. From looking set for something around 230, they have managed to put 209/8. Miller hits two sixes on the last two balls, but this total is still short considering their thin bowling resources. 

Make it eight please. Starc's yorker is too hard for batters to handle. What could Bishnoi do here. Eight down for LSG

As they look for a strong end here, LSG are losing more and more. Shahbaz hit Starc for a four before getting caught at square leg.

Shardul is run out now. A mix-up between him and Miller and he is gone. LSG 6 down now.

LSG are kicking themselves here now. After such good work by Pooran and Marsh, they are throwing the advantage away. Badoni has now been dismissed caught at long on as Kuldeep gets his second. 

Pooran's knock comes to an end. Starc cleans him up as the LSG batter fails to connect this. He is gone for 75.

Not the debut Pant would have wanted for his new franchise. He is gone for a duck. Kuldeep gets him with this tossed up one that Pant hit straight down the throat of the long-on fielder.

Pooran takes apart Stubss for a 28-run over. Four sixes off that over. He is on 70 from 27.

Marsh is gone after a brilliant knock here. He goes back for 72 from 36 balls. Mukesh Kumar gets the danger man.

What a start by LSG. They have brought their hundred in just the ninth over. Pooran is now closing in on a fifty.

Marsh gets to his fifty off just 21 balls. What an innings this is from the Aussie star, who is coming back after missing the Champions Trophy due to an injury. 

Vipraj Nigam comes into the attack and gets a wicket straightaway. This was fuller one as Markram half-heartedly chipped it to long-on. Pooran is now in.

This is a strong start by the openers - Marsh and Markram. They are taking Starc and Axar to the cleaners. 

The action is live in Vizag. Aiden Markram and Mitchell Marsh are out for LSG on their franchise debut. Mitchell Starc has the new ball in his hand on his franchise debut as well. Here we go!

We are ready to go, some guys have been around for a few weeks and some of us have been around since a week or 10 days. We have had enough team meetings and stuff like that. It's always good to be in a new team, it's refreshing for me. It will be good fun. The business starts with the first game. It has been fantastic, I have got good inputs. Our boys like to watch Pant play, looking forward to that relationship (with the captain.) There are 14 games, you are going to win some, you are going to lose some. Mumbai have lost most of their first games, but they have done well following that and won a lot of trophies (in the past.)

62m square boundaries and 73m down the ground. The pitch has been rolled very nicely, it's hard and even. There is not much grass. The curator has been rolling this pitch since a month. It's a track where a lot of runs will be scored. 180-190 runs are gettable on this surface.

LSG subs: M Siddharth, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Akash Singh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar

DC subs: Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay, Darshan Nalkande

Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Rishabh Pant(w/c), David Miller, Prince Yadav, Digvesh Rathi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shardul Thakur, Ravi Bishnoi

Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel(w), Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar

I wanted to bowl first but It's a good wicket so we can bat well. I have played for DC all my life, so lot of emotions there. Preparations have been well, everyone is in the right shape and in the right frame of mind. Markram, Marsh, Pooran and Miller are our four overseas players.

We are going to bowl first. It's the dew factor, we don't want to take any risk, that's why we are bowling first. I have played with Pant before, he knows me and I know him. We know our tricks. I have played a lot for the Capitals, we have a well balanced side. There's dew sometimes, not always. I have been with DC since three years, I have been with the leadership group. I need to work accordingly. Need to think like a leader. Faf du Plessis, Stubbs, Starc and Fraser McGurk are our four overseas.

Delhi Capitals have won the toss and they will be bowling first. Axar says there would be dew so he is wanting to bowl

"Yeah, we're very aware that four of our bowlers are unavailable for the first game and probably a couple of the guys for a few games down the track. But that's sport, that's cricket, fast bowling usually gives you some headaches but you just have to adapt. And we've all been in the business long enough to know that the fast-bowling injuries is something that you always have to prepare for,” Langer was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.

There were doubts over KL Rahul's availability due to personal reasons. He joined the team but is has been confirmed that he will not be playing in today's match against LSG, his former franchise. 

A new captain - Rishabh Pant - signed for a record sum of Rs 27 lakh highlights their biggest addition. They have a strong batting line-up featuring the likes of David Miller, Mitchell Marsh and Aiden Markram, alongside Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni. However, their bowling is hit with injuries. 

Axar Patel is the captain. They have KL Rahul, Faf du Plessis, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan and Mohit Sharma are the key additions to the DC setup. They have a revamped coaching staff with Hemang Badani and Venugopal Rao joining the franchise as Head Coach (IPL) and Director of Cricket (IPL) respectively.

Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants - two reshuffled units - open their campaign in the Indian Premier League 2025 on Monday, March 24. LSG's former skipper KL Rahul is in the DC setup, Capitals ex-skipper Rishabh Pant is in the LSG setup and leading the team. DC don't have Ricky Ponting at the helm anymore and has a revamped coaching staff.