Team Chabuk-Sports Desk: Delhi Capitals registered their second win by defeating Punjab by six wickets on the basis of Shikhar Dhawan’s brilliant innings of 92 runs. After chasing the Punjab Kings target of 196 runs, Delhi won by six wickets with 10 balls to spare.
Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant won the toss and invited the Punjab Kings to bat first. But his decision proved wrong when KL Rahul (61) and Mayank Agarwal (69) together shared 122 runs for the first wicket. Both also completed their half-centuries.
Chris Gayle and Nicholas Pooran could not do much after both of them were dismissed and both returned cheaply to the pavilion. However, after this Deepak Hooda scored 22 from 13 balls and Shah Rukh Khan scored 15 runs from five balls to bring Punjab’s score to 195.
After this, Delhi also started fast to chase the target. Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan formed a fast half-century partnership. Together they added 59 runs in the sixth over.
Prithvi scored 32 runs in 17 balls before being dismissed. After Shaw’s dismissal, Smith and Pant failed to do much. On the other hand, Dhawan remained at one end and scored fast. Dhawan scored 92 off 49 balls before being dismissed. In the end Marcus Stoinis and Lalit Yadav got together to score a quick run and ended the match with a 10-ball win over Delhi.
RCB defeated KKR
Royal Challengers Bangalore, led by Virat Kohli, has made a tremendous debut in IPL 2021. The team has defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 38 runs at the stadium played in Chepauk on Sunday. Having now won all three of their opening matches at RCB, they are the only team that has not yet suffered defeat.
In the match Virat Kohli decided to bat first after winning the toss. However, he did not start well and lost two wickets for 9 runs. But after this, with the help of Glenn Maxwell’s unbeaten innings of 78 from 49 balls and AB de Villiers’s 76 from 34 balls, Bangalore scored 204 runs in 20 over’s.
Kolkata started fast to chase the target but their wickets kept falling at every interval. No batsman of the team could play a big innings and KKR managed to score 166 runs after losing eight wickets in 20 over’s.
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