IPL 11: Rajasthan Royals showed their return home, according to Duckworth-Lewis, Delhi lost by 10 runs
Rajasthan Royals have exploded after reaching their home ground after four years of long wait. In the sixth season of the IPL season 11 played at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan defeated Delhi Daredevils by 10 runs and started their winning run in the series.
New Delhi / Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals have exploded after reaching their home ground after four years of long wait. In the sixth season of the IPL season 11 played at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan defeated Delhi Daredevils by 10 runs and started their winning run in the series.
Regardless of the rain interruption during the match, Rajasthan did not lose patience and finally got the match under the Duckworth-Lewis Rule.
Delhi team won the toss and invited Rajasthan to bat first. Rajasthan scored 153 runs in 17.5 overs before coming to the rain. After that the innings of Rajasthan could not be completed. After the rain stopped on the basis of this score of Rajasthan, Delhi was given the target of 71 runs in the last six overs.
But before the balls of Krishnappa Gautam and Dhawal Kulkarni, the Delhi batsmen looked neutral. The visiting team lost the crucial wicket of explosive opener Colin Munro in the first over. After this Maxwell tried to play some big shot at Unadkat's balls but it was too late till then.
Delhi team chasing target of 71 runs lost wickets at regular intervals. Because of which the victory later slipped out of their hands. Glenn Maxwell was caught out of the Ben Laughlin ball by making 17 runs in 12 balls. After this, another hope of Delhi in the form of Rishabh Pant (20 runs) in Unadkat was broken. Ending Chris Morris's 17-ball knock on 7 balls proved too insignificant for Delhi and the team had to taste the second defeat in a row.
At the same time Rajasthan, playing the first match in their home after losing toss, did not start well and the team looked to openers Darcy Short for a run-out in the second match. They just scored 6 runs.
After this, Ben Stokes, who came in to bat, could not do anything special and scored 16 runs. But after losing the opening wicket, captain Ajinkya Rahane, batting on the sidelines, led the team's score with Sanju Samson. But the team lost the wicket of Sanju on the score of 90 runs in an attempt to bat in a scathing batting. Sanju has scored 37 runs in just 22 balls with a superb innings.
At the same time, after captain Sanju's wicket, captain Rahane also caught Nadam's catch in the air in an attempt to push the team's score. Captain Rahane scored 45 runs while playing a vital innings.
In the end, Jos Buttler contributed 27 runs in 18 balls for Rajasthan while Rahul Tripathi scored 15 runs. With the help of which the team had scored 153 runs in 17.5 overs before the rain arrived.
The most successful bowler from Delhi is Shahbah Nadeem. Nadeem took 2 wickets in 34 balls with four wickets in four overs. Apart from Nadeem, Trent Bolt and Shami got one wicket each.
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