Delhi Capitals (DC) avenged their shocking first-leg defeat with a five-wicket victory o💝ver Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), brightening𝄹 their prospects of reaching to the play-offs of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium on Saturday.
Chasing 164, Delhi opener Shikhar Dhawan laid the foundation with a fluent 56 of 41 balls, while skipper Shreyas Iyer scored an unbeaten 58 off 49 balls to complete🏅 the job with two balls to spare. Earlier, Gayle smashed five gargantuan sixes into 🐷the night sky before DC put the brakes and restricted KXIP to 163 for seven.
In the first leg at the PCA stadium in Mohali, DC lost seven wicke♉ts for eight runs to gift KXIP victory after sitting pretty at 144 for three in the 17th over while chasing 168.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
What a game of cricket this has been. The clinc𝓡h a thriller♕ here at the Kotla. Beat by 5 wickets.
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
V. I. C. T. O. R. Y. 🤩 mein kar diya fateh 👊
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals)
Fantastic innings from and great composure from Shreyas gives a well deserved win.
The catch by Co📖lin Ingram ( eventually by Axar) to dismiss Chris Gayle made a huge difference , Great presence of mind— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Needed a Ricky Ponting to shake Shikhar out of his comfort zone. Far too many coaches pander to the wishes of star players. Dhawan is a better T20 batsman now thanks to Rick😼y.
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar)
Most FOURS in IPL:
500* Dhawan
492 Gambhir
473 Raina
471 Kohli
445 Warner— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
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Friends in Delhi get excited every yea♈r an🅰d then give up. This year things could be different.. At least a qualification perhaps, first after 2012
— Jatin Sapru (@jatinsapru)
The team is in a winning position, the required rate is 7.2 and Rishabh Pant throws his wicket yet again by playing a re🔯ckless shot.
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja)
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Scores today:
161
162
163
166Iyer's four ruined the sequence!
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
Not sure if Rishabh Pant is▨ overrated but Shreya🔯s Iyer is massively underrated.
— Hemang (@sirschweini)
Poor record ෴for Kings XI Punjab in away games!
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
