NEW DELHI: Riding on unbeaten Risabh Pant (53 runs off 38 balls) Delhi Capitals defeated Rajasthan Royals by five wickets here at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground here on Saturday.
With this win, Delhi moved to second spot while Mumbai slided to third spot.
After Delhi restricted Rajasthan on a score of 115 runs, Delhi scored 121 runs in 16.1 overs and won the match with five wickets in hand.
While chasing a target, Delhi got off to a decent start but couldn’t continue to convert it into a big score as Ish Sodhi dismissed both the openers Prithvi Shaw (8) and Shikhar Dhawan (16) in 3rd over.
Later, Shreyas Iyer and Risabh Pant stitched a 33-runs-partnership for the third wicket Delhi to 61 runs in 7th over. Iyer too failed to stay on the crease, and departed on a score of 15 runs off nine balls. He was caught by Liam Livingstone on Shreyas Gopal’s ball.
After Iyer departure, Delhi didn’t want to look back Colin Ingram (12) were going strong with Pant as the duo added 22 runs for the fourth wicket and was expected to guide hosts towards victory but fell to Ish Sodhi in 13th over.
Like Rajasthan, Delhi too were in difficult situation and lost their wickets on a regular basis. Finally, touched 100 runs mark in 15th over. Both Pant and Sherfane Rutherford (11 runs) added 23 runs to their teams total. Later, Rutherford like others too failed to support Pant till the last ball and walked to pavilion. He was dismissed by Gopal. (AGENCIES)
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