IPL 2025: Travis Head gets helpless against the Delhi Capitals' Mitchell Starc.; See the figures

The 10th match of the Indian Premier League was contested by Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Delhi Capitals at Visakhapatnam. Sunrisers Hyderabad, after winning the toss and batting first for this match, did not get a great start. This can be gauged from the fact that their top-four wickets fell for 37 runs in 4.1 overs. The batsmen who got out were none other than Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, and Nitish Kumar Reddy. These dashing players of Sunrisers were seen struggling with the pace and swing of Mitchell Starc of Delhi Capitals. But this is not the first time that star players like Travis Head, Ishan, and Nitish felt helpless, the figures also bear the same witness.

While the world's bowlers fear Sunrisers Hyderabad's Travis Head, he is helpless against the Delhi Capitals' Mitchell Starc. In the current season of the Indian Premier League, Mitchell Starc sent him on his way back to the pavilion on 22 runs (12 balls, 4 fours). KL Rahul caught him. In this way, Mitchell Starc has got Travis Head out 6 times in all formats. Travis Head has faced Mitchell Starc 8 times since 2015 and scored only 18 runs from 34 balls, two of which were fours. The catch here is that the two fours Travis Head scored were scored against the Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad match (Visakhapatnam) of the IPL 2025. Travis Head has a record of 10 runs from seven balls and is out twice against Mitchell Starc in the IPL.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan and Nitish Reddy are also in bad shape against Mitchell Starc. Ishan Kishan, who scored a century in the first match for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the current IPL season, does not have a good record against Mitchell Starc. He played three innings against Mitchell Starc in the IPL and scored 16 runs in 8 balls. During this, he was out 2 times. Ishan Kishan scored 2 runs in 5 balls against Delhi Capitals in the 10th match of IPL 2025.

Mitchell Starc has also troubled Nitish Kumar Reddy of Sunrisers Hyderabad a lot. In the IPL, Nitish Reddy has faced 12 balls from Mitchell Starc in 3 innings and has been able to score only 7 runs, in which he has been out 2 times. In the 10th match of the current IPL season, playing against Delhi, he returned to the pavilion without an account after facing 2 balls.

In the history of Delhi Capitals, Mitchell Starc is the first fast bowler and the first foreign player to take 5 wickets in a match. Before him, this feat was achieved by spinner Amit Mishra for Delhi Capitals in 2008 against Deccan Chargers. After 17 years, Mitchell Starc has now achieved the feat of a 5-wicket haul for Delhi Capitals. Not only this, he took a five-wicket haul for the first time in his T20 career (144 matches). With this, he also completed 200 wickets in T20 on Sunday.