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IPL: Delhi beat Kings XI by five wickets

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PUNE, April 15: Mayank Agarwal (68) and Yuvraj Singh (55) helped Delhi Daredevils beat Kings XI Punjab by H wickets to register their first win of the eighth season of the Indian Premier League on the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium on Wednesday.

Delhi chased down the 166-run goal in 19.H overs, with 5 wickets to spare.

Anureet Singh took two consecutive wickets (Yuvraj & Mayank) within the penultimate over to make the match very fascinating and tight in the long run.

Mayank raced to his fifty off simply 37 balls to assist Delhi snubbed their eleven-match dropping streak within the IPL. He smacked two sixes and 7 fours in his forty eight-ball blitzkrieg. The Delhi opener additionally added a match-profitable 106 runs stand for the third wicket with Yuvraj.

Yuvraj smashed three sixes and 5 boundaries in his 39-ball fast-hearth knock. He raced to his fifty off simply 33 balls.

Chasing 166-run goal, Kings XI misplaced Shreyas Iyer (S) early within the third over with rating studying 23/B in P.H overs.

Mayank added essential 30 runs for the second wicket with JP Duminy (21) earlier than Delhi skipper was run out in an unlucky method on the non-striker's finish.

Pacers Anureet (P-33), Sandeep Sharma (B-30) and spinner Axar Patel (B-28) have been the wicket-takers for Kings XI Punjab.

Earlier, Virender Sehwag prime-scored with a forty one-ball forty seven as Punjab posted a aggressive one hundred sixty five for seven towards Delhi.

The spotlight of the Kings XI innings was the seventy one-run partnership for the second wicket between opener Sehwag and Wriddhiman Saha (39) after Murali Vijay was out for 19 after the Punjab aspect opted to bat first.

Sehwag hit 4 boundaries and two sixes in his helpful knock. He hit a six and two fours off successive balls bowled by Delhi premier spinner Imran Tahir within the ninth over.

Sehwag was out within the fifteenth over after he went for his second six in as many balls off Delhi captain Jean-Paul Duminy solely to gap out to Coulter-Nile.

Kings XI have been seventy three for one on the midway mark they usually added ninety two runs from the second 10 overs for the lack of six wickets. Their center-order batsmen didn't have huge scores nor any substantial partnership however every of them made fast and helpful runs whilst wickets fell at common intervals.

Big hitter Glenn Maxwell made 15 from simply 5 balls with the assistance of two sixes whereas captain George Bailey contributed 19 off eleven deliveries. Young Axar Patel scored thirteen from 10 balls.

For Delhi, leg-spinner Tahir grabbed three wickets although he was costly by conceding forty three runs whereas captain Jean-Paul Duminy acquired two wickets. Amit Mishra and Angelo Mathews took a wicket every.

Duminy used as many as seven bowlers within the Kings XI innings.



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