Hospice: Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan, who is almost out of the IPL playoff race after losing by 15 runs to Delhi Capitals, said that his bowlers failed to bowl well in the first six overs. Batting first, Delhi Capitals scored 213 runs for two wickets. In response, the Punjab team could only manage 198 runs for eight wickets. Delhi batsmen had scored 61 runs without any loss in six overs of the powerplay. Dhawan said after the match, ‘It is disappointing but I think we could not bowl well in the first six overs. We should have taken some wickets because the ball was moving at that time. He said, ‘As long as Liam Livingstone was batting, we were hopeful. But my decision to bowl the last over with the spinner also backfired. Before that in the powerplay, the fast bowlers did not bowl at the right places. He said, ‘We are 50 in every powerplay. Giving away 60 runs and not getting wickets. We knew that the ball would swing in the first two-three overs but we could not take advantage of that.
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Punjab blown away in Delhi’s stormy batting
Delhi Capitals batsmen showed excellent batting performance against Punjab Kings. The blistering hitting of the top order batsmen took the match out of Punjab’s hands. From captain David Warner to Phil Salt, all the batsmen batted brilliantly. In this match, Warner and Prithvi Shaw started the innings for Delhi.
Together they gave a good start to the team. Warner played a good inning of 46 runs. At the same time, Shaw, who is returning to the team, also scored his first half-century (54) of this season. Apart from this, Riley Russo played an unbeaten inning of 82 runs off 37 balls, in which 6 fours and 6 sixes were seen from his bat. At the same time, Salt, who came to bat at number four, also scored an unbeaten 26 in a brilliant manner.
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