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The maturity of the two batters in their early 20s trumped the experienced LSG top order as Capitals finished the league stage with a 19-run win and 14 points.<\/p>\n
While defending the total, the experience of Ishant Sharma (3\/34) and Kuldeep Yadav (1\/33) knocked the wind out of the LSG batting despite Nicholas Pooran\u2019s ominous knock of 27-ball 61, Arshad Khan\u2019s late charge of unbeaten 58 off 33 to take LSG to 189\/9 and Capitals\u2019 customary ordinary catching abilities.
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Tuesday\u2019s result, however, has placed both teams on the verge of falling short of making it to the playoffs.
Capitals\u2019 have been spoilt by McGurk\u2019s onslaught up front in an innings. When the maverick opener was thoughtfully dismissed for a duck at long on off the second ball of the innings bowled by left-arm seamer Arshad Khan, it seemed Capitals could fall behind on a surface that has regularly produced scores of well above 200 this year.
But Porel raised his hand this time to calm the Capitals dugout before Stubbs allayed all fears of a possible collapse and powerfully finish the innings on a high.
Porel isn\u2019t anything like McGurk\u2019s muscle game. It was all timing and match awareness that saw Porel take Capitals 73\/1 at the end of the powerplay. By the time he reached his 50 off just 21 balls, he had already hit four sixes and five boundaries. The pitch wasn\u2019t as flat as it has been here this IPL. The cutters into pitch stopped on the batters as Shai Hope had to really wait to pick his deliveries to go big.
Perhaps, it was the heat coupled with some shrewd bowling into pitch by Ravi Bishnoi that put the brakes on the Capitals charge. Porel seemed to be running out of gas even as his skipper Rishabh Pant was taking his time to score 33 off 23.
Once Porel was dismissed caught at deep mid-wicket, it looked like Bishnoi and left-arm pacer Mohsin Khan had worked out a way to apply the choke with spells of 1\/26 and 0\/29 respectively.
This is where Stubbs displayed his rapid evolution as a batter. He batted just 25 balls and hit four sixes and three boundaries. But the innings was well thought out.
Understanding that going after spin straightaway isn\u2019t his strongest game, he bided his time against the Bishnoi by knocking him into the gaps for singles. But he unleashed his fury at the back end of the innings. <\/div>\n