Currently, the two northern greats, Delhi Capitals (DC) and Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) are searching for their third win of IPL 2019 at the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali. After winning the toss, the Delhi skipper, Shreyas Iyer asked the hosts to bat first. Surprisingly, for KXIP, Sam Curran came out to open the innings with KL Rahul.
During the toss, the KXIP skipper, R Ashwin made shocking revelations as Punjab dropped Chris Gayle and Andrew Tye and in place of them, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Sam Curran came in the squad. On the other hand, Delhi made only one change as Amit Mishra made way for Avesh Khan. KXIP had a rough start as they lost Rahul in the second over of the innings itself. However, Curran kept the momentum as he smashed three glorious boundaries to Avesh in the very next over.
WATCH – Brain Fade Moment For Mayank Agarwal Resulted In His Wicket
Curran was looking in the great touch as after smashing Khan he smashed Sandeep Lamichhane for a six as well before getting out on the next ball of the fourth over as well. Soon after his dismissal, Mayank Agarwal got out as well as he had a brain fade moment for him at the non-striker’s end.
After scoring 54 runs in the power play, KXIP was looking good but on the very first ball of the 8th over, hey lost their in-form batsman, Mayank Agarwal. Despite a 62-run 4th wicket partnership between Sarfaraz and David Miller, Punjab only managed to reach the total of 16/9 in their quota of 20 overs.
During the chase, Delhi faced an early blow in the form of Prithvi Shaw as he was dismissed by Ashwin on the first ball itself. Despite that, they were cruising at 49/1 after the powerplay with Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Oyer at the crease. However, the DC skipper got out in the 8th over, as Hardus Viljoen dislodged his stumps, it was like a revenge from the bowler.
WATCH – Sandeep Lamichhane Took A Revenge From Sam Curran
On the first ball of the 8th over, Shreyas smashed beautiful boundary to Viljoen. However, the bowler avenged it on the very next ball when he delivered a ball wide outside off, and Iyer attempted a drive again, but the ball took the inside edge and crashed into the stumps. The bowler jumped in the air and there was a bit of eye-to-eye action between Iyer and Viljoen after the wicket, but no shoulder barge. However, they came pretty close to pushing each other.
Here is the video of the dismissal:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1112768522508099589
