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The second match of this year’s IPL was between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capital. The match was held at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur. Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to bowl.
Delhi Capitals Innings:
Delhi Capital’s two Australian openers David Warner and Mitchell Marsh started the innings brilliantly. At the end of the first 3 overs, the run was 33 for no loss.
Mitchell Marsh hit a huge SIX off the first ball of Arshdeep Singh in the 4th over. But in the second ball of this over, he got out while driving to the offside. Rahul Chahar took the catch very well.
After this, Warner and Shai Hope started building a partnership. At this time some of the shots must be mentioned. On the fifth ball of the fifth over of the innings, Warner hit an amazing shot with Rabada almost down the ground for 6. At the end of 6 overs i.e. power play, Delhi Capitals’ score was 54 runs for 1 wicket.
Shai Hope was giving good support to Warner sometimes hitting 4 sometimes 6. In the last ball of the 8th over, Warner was caught by wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma in a slow bouncer by Harshal Patel. Warner scored 29 runs. When Rishabh Pant came to bat after Warner got out, the crowd greeted Pant with applause. Pant made his comeback after 15 months.
When the strategic time out started at the end of the ninth over, Delhi Capitals were 79 runs for 2 wickets.
Shai Hope hit a brilliant six off Rabada in the 11th over but was caught out while driving the very next ball of Rabada.
After that, in the 13th over, Pant was caught by Harshal Patel’s slow bouncer and got out for 13 runs.
In the next over, Bhui was dismissed by Harpreet Brar. Tristan Stubbs was dismissed in the 16th over by Rahul Chahar and Shashank Singh took a great catch with a lot of running. At the end of 16 overs, the run was 128 for 6.
Axar Patel was trying to get runs quickly but was run out on the first ball of the 18th over for 21 runs. After that, Abishek Porel came in as an impact substitute and played an incredibly valuable innings.
Arshdeep Singh dismissed Sumit Kumar in the 19th over and Jitesh Sharma took the catch.
In the last over Abishek Porel took 25 runs with 3 boundaries and 2 over boundaries off Harshal Patel’s ball in the last over. Kuldeep Yadav was run out in the last ball of the over while taking 2 runs. Delhi Capitals set a competitive score courtesy of Abishek Porel’s 32 off 10 balls.
At the end of 20 overs, the score was 174-9.
Punjab Kings Innings:
Dhawan and Bairstow opened the batting for Punjab Kings with a target of 175 runs. Both Dhawan and Bairstow hit 2 boundaries each in the first over. Punjab Kings scored 17 runs in the first over by Khaleel Ahmed and at the end of the first three overs, Punjab Kings’ score was 34 for no loss.
But in the 4th over, the two openers of Punjab Kings got out, Ishant Sharma bowled out Dhawan in the first ball of the fourth over. and on the fifth ball of this over, Bairstow got run out somewhat unluckily.
After that, Sam Curran and Prabhsimran formed a good partnership. Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Prabhsimran in the second ball of the tenth over. Sam Curran and Prabhsimran made a partnership of 42 runs. At the end of the 10th over, Punjab Kings were 87 with the loss of 3 wickets.
There were still 10 overs left in the game and it was difficult to predict what the outcome would be as both teams had enough chances at that time.
In the 12th over, Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Jitesh Sharma courtesy of Pant’s stamping. Then Punjab Kings had 100 runs.
Sam Curran and Livingstone batted aggressively and took Punjab Kings to a very good position. They were attacking all the bowlers, especially Mitchell Marsh. Mitchell Marsh conceded 18 runs in both the 15th and 18th overs.
When Sam Curran was dismissed for 63 off Khaleel Ahmed in the 19th over, Punjab Kings were in a comfortable position. Khaleel Ahmed took another wicket in this over by dismissing Harpreet Brar.
Livingstone hit a six off the second ball of the 20th over to pick up the runs Punjab Kings needed to win. Liam Livingstone made 38 runs. Punjab Kings defeated Delhi Capitals by 4 wickets with 4 balls remaining.
The summary of the scorecard of this match is given below.
Scorecard Summary:
| Delhi Capitals Batting (174/9 in 20 overs) | Punjab Kings Bowling |
| Abishek Porel 32(10) | Arshdeep Singh 28/2(4 overs) |
| Shai Hope 33(25) | Harshal Patel 47/2(4 overs) |
| Warner 29(21) | Harpreet Brar 14/1(3 overs) |
| Punjab Kings Batting (177/6 in 19.2 overs) | Delhi Capitals Bowling |
| Sam Curran 63(47) | Khaleel Ahmed 43/2 (4 overs) |
| Liam Livingstone 38(21) | Kuldeep Yadav 20/2 (4 overs) |
| Prabhsimran Singh 26(17) | Ishant Sharma 16/1 (2 overs) |
Result:
Punjab Kings won the match by 4 wickets.
Player Of The Match:
Sam Curran was the player of the match.