IPL 2018, KKR vs DD: 5 reasons why Delhi lost

#4 Disastrous start with the bat

Chasing a huge score of 201, Delhi got off to the worst possible start as the hero of the last match Jason Roy was brilliantly stumped by Dinesh Karthik in the very first over. He was soon followed to the hut by Shreyas Iyer who gave catching practice to Nitish Rana at first slip off the bowling of Andre Russell.

The game was touted as the homecoming of Gautam Gambhir but he could not do much of note as he dragged the ball onto his stumps. The scorecard read 24/3 at that stage. Delhi had lost half the game in the first 3 overs itself.