Rishabh Pant continued to announce his return to aggressive cricket with one other sensible fifty for Delhi Capitals within the ongoing IPL 2024 recreation in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday. Kolkata posted a report 272 whole whereas batting first at ACA-VDCA Cricket Floor however Pant’s 55 off simply 25 balls saved Delhi alive for a lot of the recreation.
Pant displayed sensational hitting by smashing six consecutive boundaries off Venkatesh Iyer within the twelfth over to spice up Delhi previous 100 and convey his second fifty of the season. Rishabh Pant stole the limelight by pulling off a no-look six on the third supply of the twelfth over.
The returning Delhi Capitals skipper walked in to bat at no.5 after Delhi misplaced 4 wickets on simply 33 runs. Pant and Tristan Stubbs added 93 runs for the fifth wickets to maintain Delhi alive within the chase. Pant began his hitting by smashing a six and went on to smash 9 boundaries, together with 5 sixes.
Nonetheless, Pant walked out on the very subsequent supply after smashing six boundaries off Venkatesh. Varun Chakravarthy dismissed Pant and subsequent batter Axar Patel to finish Delhi’s any possibilities of a comeback within the thirteenth over. Stubbs produced his first IPL fifty by scoring 54 off 32 balls as Delhi Capitals had been bowled out on 166 in 17.2 overs.
“Our bowlers had been all around the play,” Rishabh mentioned in the course of the post-match presentation. “I believe it’s time for reflection as a person. We have to be taught from these errors and are available optimistic within the subsequent match. My physique Doing nice. Getting on the market. Having fun with daily however cricket has its personal ups and downs.”
Delhi Capitals Enjoying XI: Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sumit Kumar, Rasikh Dar Salam, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed.
Kolkata Knight Riders Enjoying XI: Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
