Delhi tasted victory after 5 defeats: beat Kolkata by 4 wickets at home

Delhi tasted victory after 5 defeats: beat Kolkata by 4 wickets at home

Delhi Capitals, captained by David Warner, have tasted victory in the 16th season of the Indian Premier League. This team, which suffered 5 consecutive defeats, defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 4 wickets in a very exciting match.

Delhi won the toss and elected to bowl at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Kolkata scored 127 runs losing all wickets in 20 overs. In response, Delhi batsmen scored the required runs in 19.2 overs to win by 6 wickets. Ishant Sharma was the player of the match. He took 2 wickets for 19 runs in four overs.

Warner scored half-century in 33 balls; Pandey-Patel's innings also important

Batting first for Kolkata in this low-scoring but exciting encounter, Jason Roy played a fighting innings of 43 off 39 balls. In the last over, Andre Russell scored an unbeaten 38 off 31 balls to take the team to 127 runs. He hit three consecutive sixes off Mukesh's ball in the 20th over. None of the remaining batsmen could face the Delhi bowlers. Ishant Sharma, Anrich Nortya, Akshar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav took two wickets each for Delhi.

In response, Captain David Warner (57 runs) and Prithvi Shaw got Delhi off to a brisk start, but the pair could not score much runs and Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for 13 off 11 balls. After Prithvi's dismissal, Kolkata's spinners kept their team in the match by taking frequent wickets, although Warner held on from one end and completed his half-century. In the middle, Varun Chakraborty made the match exciting by dismissing Warner.

Delayed due to rain

It rained for a long time before the match in Delhi, due to which the start of the match was delayed by an hour at 8:30 pm. The toss also took place at 8.15 pm instead of 7 pm. Even after the delay, the overs in the match were not reduced.