HIGHLIGHTS
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Match 11 of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 edition saw a dominant Delhi Capitals (DC) take on a winless David Warner-led Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday (September 29). Being the only team to not get off the mark in the season, so far, Warner & Co. came out with a lot of intent, with a marked improvement in all departments, to stun the DC camp by 15 runs.
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Iyer-led DC expected the pitch to remain as it and, hence, opted to bowl first. However, their bowlers had to wait for a long time for the first breakthrough.
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While Jonny Bairstow and Warner are a daunting opening pair, they hadn’t struck big so far in the competition. However, the two came out with a lot of intent, especially the captain.
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Warner looked hungry to get a big score. He started with a positive mindset and kept the scoreboard ticking with his aggressive play.
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His six, getting on one knee off Anrich Nortje, was the highlight of his 33-ball 45. Bairstow, on the other hand, was slow to start off but came to his own as the innings progressed.
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After Warner, Manish Pandey went back to the pavillion soon. The onus fell on Kane Williamson, who had been added to the line-up to bolster the SRH middle-order.
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The New Zealander did just that as he timed his inning beautifully, shuffling across and finding the gaps with ease. His 26-ball 41 along with debutant and Jammu and Kashmir’s swashbuckling youngster, Abdul Samad’s 7-ball 12* took SRH to 162/4.
CONCLUSION
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Plenty has been made of the fact that Rishabh Pant hadn’t hit a six in the first two games of this IPL. Perhaps he was proving, more to himself than anyone else, that he too could play according to the situation – as scores of 31 and 37* in twin wins prior to tonight suggest. Or perhaps he was just not that confident, we’ll never know. But until Tuesday, a six Pant hadn’t hit.
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That changed when exactly a 100 runs were needed from 8 overs for the table-toppers Delhi to stay on top, and in turn keeping bottom-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad at the bottom.
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Five overs later, with the required rate mounting, Pant looked to strike his third six against yet another spinner bowling his final over of the day. But Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan, the best short-format bowler in the world, is a little harder to tonk about than Sharma. On a slow-and-low Abu Dhabi wicket, the leggie had already put the brakes on Delhi’s scoring with the wickets of opener Shikhar Dhawan and captain Shreyas Iyer.
Rashid Khan is the Man of the Match for Match 11 for his brilliant bowling figures of 4-0-14-3.#Dream11IPL #DCvSRH pic.twitter.com/KBUGtJ1eN7
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) September 29, 2020
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when Pant walked across the stumps to slog Khan over square-leg, Khan already had his fists up in delight. Such was this wicket, one that needed the service of a true anchor batsman and not just someone pretending to be one. And such was this day, one that Delhi lost by 15 runs despite chasing a (relatively) paltry 163, especially in a tournament where scores of 200 have easily been toppled.
.@SunRisers register their first win of #Dream11IPL 2020 as they beat #DelhiCapitals by 15 runs in Match 11
A look at the Match Summary below 👇#DCvSRH pic.twitter.com/OWyZdkhenD
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) September 29, 2020
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