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Saturday, April 28, 2018

IPL 2018: Captain Shreyas Iyer stands up as Delhi Daredevils down Kolkata Knight Riders


In his first IPL game as captain, Shreyas Iyer took a big gamble by dropping Delhi's famous son and his former skipper Gautam Gambhir on Friday. However, the Mumbai boy soon compensated it by smashing an unbeaten 40-ball 93 as the Delhi Daredevils beat the Kolkata Knight Riders by XX wickets here at the Ferozeshah Kotla.

The captain's knock by Iyer ensured that the hosts posted a daunting 219/4 against the hapless KKR bowling attack.

Chasing the mammoth target, KKR had to deal with four early jolts as opener Chris Lynn was cleaned up by Glenn Maxwell in just the second over the case.

Robin Uthappa, the in-form Sunil Narine, and Nitish Rana were also sent back to the pavilion early as the visitors were reduced to 46/4 in 5.1 overs.

And when skipper b, it was always going to be an improbable task for Karthik and his boys.

And despite Andre Russell and young Shulman Gill stitching together a 64-run partnership to raise minor hopes of a miraculous victory for the Knights, two wickets in the 16th over by Amit Mishra evaporated all those hopes.

In the end, KKR could only manage 164/9 as the hosts won the game by 55 runs.

The day also witnessed another India U-19 star Prithvi Shaw showing his class in the senior circuit with a fine half-century (62 off 44 balls) in only his second IPL outing. The Iyer-Shaw duo was so ruthless during its stay in the middle that it accumulated 70 runs off just seven overs after the fall of Colin Munro's (33 off 18 balls) wicket.

Shaw's fifty meant that he joined Sanju Samson in becoming the youngest batsman to score a half-century in the IPL at an age of 18 years and 169 days, with Samson reaching the milestone in 2013.

While Shaw struck seven fours and two sixes during his stay at the crease, his captain slammed three fours and 10 maximums during a knock that left the home crowd more entertained.

Iyer especially turned the heat on in the final overs, and in the company of Glenn Maxwell, ensured that his team went past the 200-run mark with authority.

The visiting KKR bowlers failed to contain the flow of runs and Piyush Chawla (1/33) was the only one to have conceded less than nine runs an over from the bowling pack of six.

Earlier, KKR won the toss and invited the bottom-placed hosts to bat first on a slightly greenish Kotla track. All-rounder Vijay Shankar and opener Colin Munro were brought back into the playing XI by Iyer at the expense of Gambhir and Dan Christian. KKR, on the other hand, made only one change, bringing in Mitchell Johnson for Tom Curran.


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