Delhi Capitals (DC) shattered the playoff hopes of Punjab Kings (PBKS) by defeating them in the 64th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023. Rilee Rossouw shined for DC in their vi✃ctory and played a crucial role in helping his team register a 15-run win in the contest.
Asked to bat first, Delhi got off to a flying start with skipper David Warner and Prithvi Shaw webbing a 94-run opening partnership. While Warner contributed 46 runs to the team total, Shaw scored brilliant 54 runs off 38 balls. Apart from theᩚᩚᩚᩚ🍸ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ duo of Shaw and Warner, Rossouw hammered quickfire 82 runs off 37 deliveries and powered DC to a mammoth total of 213/2 in their allotted 20 overs.
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De Villiers expressed his excitement𓃲 in a unique manner as he took to Twitter and refused to believe the distance of Rossouw’s six to be 96 metres and exclaimed it as ‘maybe 196’.
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In reply, PBKS started terribly in the run chase and lost their captain Shikhar Dhawan for a duck. However, Atharva Taide slammed a brilliant fifty and kept his team alive in the hunt. Although Liam Livingstone also scored a quickfire 94 off 48 balls, he failed to get his🌌 side across the line, and PBKS eventually fell 15 runs short in the chase managing to score 198/8 in their 20 overs.
Ishant Sharma and Anrich Nortje were the picks of the bowlers for ༺DC, bagging two s🉐calps each for their team. Rossouw was adjudged ‘Player of the Match’ for his sensational performance.
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