Half of the tournament is over for these two teams with this game. While Delhi Capitals are flying high with 5 victories, Kolkata Knight Riders still trying to find their best combination in this season. After being sent into bat first, KKR scored 154/6 in 20 overs courtesy of two scores of 40s from Shubman Gill (43 off 38) and Andre Russell (45* off 27). Eoin Morgan (0 off 2) and Sunil Narine (0 off 1) both bagged Ducks each in this innings. A struggling Sunil Narine is batting higher than in-from Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik and Pat Cummins! Hope KKR will at least play their strong XI in their 2nd half of the tournament.
An easy win for Delhi Capitals in the end, thanks to the blistering innings by their young Prithvi Shaw (82 off 41 balls; 11 fours; 3 sixes) and a great supporting knock by the current orange cap holder Shikhar Dhawan (46 off 47). Chasing 155 to win, DC openers added 132 runs for the first wicket. Even though they lost 3 wickets, they eventually chased down the target with 7 wickets in hand and 3.3 overs to spare in their innings. All the 3 wickets to fall in Delhi’s innings were picked up by Pat Cummins who conceded just 24 runs from his 4 overs.
The first over in Delhi Capitals’ chase was the highlight of this match where Prithvi Shaw had hit six boundaries off six deliveries bowled by Shivam Mavi. The over was started with a wide making it the 25-run over. Moreover, that is the only over Shivam Mavi bowled in this match and his participation in the next match is also doubtful at the moment after such an expensive over!
Delhi opener Prithvi Shaw has been adjudged as the Player of the Match for his explosive knock at the top which helped Delhi win the match quite comfortably. With this victory, Delhi moved to 2nd position in the IPL 2021 points table while Kolkata Knight Riders still retain their fifth position in the table.
Brief Scores: Delhi Capitals – 156/3 in 16.3 overs (Prithvi Shaw – 82, Pat Cummins – 3/24) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders – 154/6 in 20 overs (Andre Russell – 45*, Lalit Yadav – 2/13) by a margin of 7 wickets
Toss: Delhi Capitals won the toss and opt to bowl first
Teams:
Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Steven Smith, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Marcus Stoinis, Shimron Hetmyer, Axar Patel, Lalit Yadav, Kagiso Rabada, Ishant Sharma, Avesh Khan
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy
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