IPL 2020: The Indian Premier League teams have brought their A game to social media this season. Through the last six weeks, we have seen several examples of the same. On Thursday evening, Delhi Capitals did something similar by using US President Donald Trump’s recent tweet to self-troll after their horrific start against Mumbai Indians. For those unaware, Delhi lost three wickets without putting a run on the scoreboard – first incident in the IPL history.  

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They lost another wicket with just 20 runs on the board. Delhi Capitals turned a tweet by US President Donald Trump into hilarious banter as they quote-tweeted Trump's "STOP THE COUNT!" with "Me to the guy updating the wickets column". 

Earlier, Mumbai were powered to a strong total of 200 runs by Hardik Pandya's 14-ball 37 not out and Ishan Kishan's unbeaten 55 off 30 to 200 for 5 in their 20 overs. Then, Trent Boult dismissed both Prithvi Shaw and Ajinkya Rahane in the very first over of the chase before Jasprit Bumrah cleaned up Shikhar Dhawan in the next and captain Shreyas Iyer in the fourth. 

Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting lamented that his bowlers were miles off in the death overs against Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 1 and they will have to "dig deep" as a team to make the IPL final.  

"It was mainly the execution through our first few overs, the first over went for 15-16, so you are on the back foot pretty much straight away there. We did fight our way back into the game.  

"We crawled our way back, from sort of 7-14 (overs) were in our favour, they were only about 120/4, so we were hoping for 170 total, which might have been in our ballpark," Ponting said at the post match press conference. 

Delhi ended up leaking 78 runs in the last five overs.