IPL Match 22 Delhi Daredevils Kings XI Punjab 2018

Delhi Daredevils Kings XI Punjab Match 22

Delhi Daredevils will make two-two hands in Kings XI Punjab in their home after crushing the Pune Superjuman by 97 runs in their second match. The Punjab team is also in good form, so defeating them for Delhi will not be so easy.

Rahul's explosive innings, Punjab over 50 runs in 2.5 overs

Due to Rahul's superior innings, Kings XI Punjab reached their target of 52 runs in just 2.5 overs. It was surprising that 51 runs in 52 came from Rahul's bat. Once Rahul started, he did not take the name of the stoppage again.

In this innings he scored 6 fours and 4 sixes. KL Rahul was adjudged Man of the Match for his outstanding innings. The effect of Rahul's good start was that Delhi's speakers did not try to put pressure on the match later, but Rahul gave the runner of the team to such a safe zone so that there was no difficulty in reaching the goal. Bolt, Maurice, Tavatia and Christian took 1-1 wickets for Delhi.

Something like this happened to Rahul's shift

KL Rahul made his intentions clear from the start of the innings that he had come into this match with the intention of playing unconscious. Gambhir provided Trent Boult for the first over and Rahul made a six and two fours in it. Mohammed Shami got the ball in the second over after this. Rahul played three balls in this over, in which he took a six, a four and a single.

Then Amit Mishra came on Boling. In his over, Rahul scored two sixes and three fours. Now the Kings' score was 28 in two overs.

Experienced spinner

Gautam gave Ball the most experienced spinner of the team, Amit Mishra. Rahul made a big start in this over. Rahul took the news of this over Mishra and got 24 runs (4, 6, 6, 4, 4, 0) in the first 5 balls. He played the last ball of the over, but now he had got the fastest half-century in IPL history.

Karun Nair also made Fifty

Apart from Rahul, Karun Nair also completed his feat in this match. Nayar hit 5 fours and two sixes in his 33-ball knock. Twenty-two batsmen (apart from Nayar and Rahul), Yuvraj Singh (12) and Mayank Agarwal (7) were not able to do anything special. Yuvraj scored 12 runs with 22 fours and two fours. Rahul Tahitia made him his victim. At the same time, Mayank Agarwal was a victim of Chris Morris. Mayank was dismissed as King's first wicket. After this, David Miller (24) and Marcus Stonis (22) completed the rest of the work.

Delhi Previews match scored

Earlier, losing the toss, Delhi Daredevils, the first to bat first, had a challenge of 167 runs against Kings XI Punjab. Capt Gautam Gambhir contributed 55 runs before the run out of Delhi. Apart from Gambhir, Rishabh Pant (28) and Chris Morris (27 *) made useful contributions. For Punjab, Mujib-ur-Rehman and Mohit Sharma scored 2-2, while Ashwin and Akhtar Patel took 1-1.

Not Opened Opening Pair

Gautam Gambhir started the innings with Colin Monroe. But the beginning of Delhi's team is not something special. When Delhi's score was 12, then Monroe (4) Mujib Umar Rahman's ball was out LBW. In this way, the Delhi Daredevils team scored 45 runs in the powerplay by losing 1 wicket.

 

77 runs in 10 overs to look strong

After Powerplay, in the next over, Akshar Patel gave Shreyas Iyer (11) a second blow to Delhi. In this way, DD had added 77 runs at the loss of two wickets in 10 overs and his captain was now looking at a serious target. It seemed that Delhi would easily keep a large total in front of Punjab. But Vijay Shankar (13) got out on the first ball of the 11th over. He made his prey to Mohit Sharma. After this Rishabh Pant must have shown some hand. But he got out after scoring 28 runs in 13 balls. Iyer made 4 fours and one six in his innings. When Aiyar was dismissed, Delhi went back to 125 runs in 15.3 overs, while the Delhi batsman returned to the pavilion.

Did not get along with

Before being dismissed as the 5th wicket, Gautam Gambhir stood for his team at one end and kept up the runs quickly after getting the opportunity. Dow could not get much support from any batsman from the other end and DD's batsmen would have been contributing a bit. Gautam Gambhir was dismissed as the fifth wicket, but the biggest partnership was with Shreyas Iyer (11) as the second wicket. During this, both of them added 42 runs for the second wicket.

 

Serious inferior fifty

Gautam Gambhir, who returned to the Delhi team in the new season, has already started a feather in the match. But Chawla was unable to translate his fifties into big scores and he was run out on 55. Gambhir scored 5 fours and one six in his 42-ball innings. This is their 36th fifa in IPL.

Gambhir completed his feat with one end, then Rishabh Pant, standing at the other end, took charge. Pant put 17 runs in an over for Andrew Ti He took 2 fours, 1 six and 2 singles in 5 balls, while a single Gambhir took it. After this, in the next over, Pant and in an attempt to pick fast runs, he hit Mujib Umar Rehman on the first ball. But after that Pant played a high shot and got his cat caught. Pant scored 28 runs in 13 balls with the help of 4 fours and 1 six. His innings were a little less, but this brought the Delhi scoreboard to a safe distance.