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Daredevils beard the Lions

Opener Pant, bowlers fashion Delhi's eight-wicket win over toppers Gujarat
Last Updated 03 May 2016, 20:07 IST
Young Rishab Pant struck a brilliant half century as Delhi Daredevils thrashed table toppers Gujarat Lions by eight wickets in a lopsided IPL match to jump to second spot here on Tuesday.

The 18-year-old Pant, playing in only his third IPL match, stole the limelight as he hit a 40-ball 69 with the help of nine fours and two sixes as the Daredevils chased down the target of 150 with 16 balls to spare at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium.

Uttarakhand boy Pant, who hit some exquisite shots, including a six each off James Faulkner and Suresh Raina, stitched 115 runs for the opening wicket with Quinton de Kock (46) and that took the game away from the Lions who lost their second consecutive match and third in nine games.

With the win, their fifth in seven matches, the Daredevils now have 10 points to occupy the second spot behind the Lions who have 12 points from nine matches.

The Daredevils made a flying start with de Kock and Pant finding the boundaries with ease.

Promoted up the order to open the innings, Pant struck three fours in successive deliveries in the second over bowled by Dhawal Kulkarni to make his intentions clear.

The left-handed opening duo of de Kock and Pant took the Daredevils to 50-run mark in the fifth over and to 61 for no loss at the end of powerplay with the help eight boundaries.

Pant reached his 50 with a six off Raina as Daredevils were cruising towards the target by reaching 93 for no loss at the halfway stage.

The Lions’ bowlers, who were a bit wayward, had to wait till the 14th over to get a breakthrough. Pant while going for a slog off Jadeja could only manage an inside edge onto his pads for Karthik to take an easy catch.

De Kock was out in the 15th over as he holed out to Dwayne Smith at mid-wicket but it was too late for the Lions to make a comeback into the match as the Daredevils needed less than a run-a-ball to win.

Earlier, Dinesh Karthik (53) struck a solid half century to steer Gujarat Lions from a woeful start to a respectable 149/7 after being put into bat.

The Lions made a disastrous start as they were reduced to 24/3 in the fourth over before Karthik’s 43-ball innings, which had five fours, took them to just below 150-mark.

Captain Suresh Raina (24) played his part in reviving the innings with a 51 run partnership with Karthik while Ravindra Jadeja chipped in with a useful unbeaten 36.

For Daredevils, Shahbaz Nedeem took two wickets while Zaheer Khan, Chris Morris, Mohammed Shami and Amit Mishra got one each.

It was not Brendon McCullum’s day and the New Zealander was cleaned up by Zaheer in the third over.

The next over, the Lions lost two wickets with Dwayne Smith (15) and Aaron Finch (5) perishing to Nadeem.  Smith hit it straight to long-on fielder Chris Morris while five balls later, Finch, making it to the playing eleven for the first time after playing Lions' first three games, top-edged to Pant at short fine leg while looking to slog sweep across the line.  The Lions were 24 for three then and they were looking down the barrel

It was left to Raina and Karthik to steady the Lions’ innings and the duo did a fine job as they curb the big shots and concentrate on singles and doubles with occasional fours.

score board

Gujarat Lions: Dwayne Smith c Morris b Nadeem 15, Brendon McCullum b Zaheer 1, Aaron Finch c Pant  b Nadeem 5, Suresh Raina st de Kock b Mishra 24, Dinesh Karthik b Shami 53, Ravindra Jadeja (not out) 36,  James Faulkner b Morris 7, Ishan Kishan (run out) 2. Extras: (LB-3, W-3) 6. Total: (For 7 wkts in 20 overs) 149.

Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-17, 3-24, 4-75, 5-127, 6-138, 7-149.
Bowling: Shabaz Nadeem 3-0-23-2, Chris Morris 4-0-32-1, Zaheer Khan 4-0-27-1, Mohammed Shami 4-0-31-1, Amit Mishra 3-0-19-1, Jean Paul Duminy 2-0-14-0.

DELHI DAREDEVILS: Quinton de Kock c Smith b Kaushik 46, Rishab Pant c Karthik b Jadeja 69, Sanju Samson (not out) 19, JP Duminy (not out) 13. Extras (LB-1, W-1,  NB-1) 3. Total (for 2 wkts, 17.2 overs) 150.

Fall of wickets: 1-115, 2-121.
Bowling: Praveen Kumar 2-0-20-0, Dhawal Kulkarni 2-0-24-0, Suresh Raina 4-0-34-0, Shivli Kaushik 4-0-29-1, Dwayne Smith 2-0-12-0, James Faulkner 1-0-9-0, Ravindra Jadeja 2.2-0-21-1. 

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(Published 03 May 2016, 14:27 IST)

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