In the 22nd match of IPL 2018, Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) secured a superb thrilling victory in the low-scoring game against the hosts Delhi Daredevils (DD) at Feroz Shah Kotla (Delhi) on Monday night. KXIP put a total of 143/8 in 20 overs while DD was restricted on 139/8 at the end of 20-over as KXIP won by 4-run.
Delhi captain Gautam Gambhir decided to field first after winning the toss. While in-form KXIP opening batsman Chris Gayle missed the game due to little injury, KXIP batsmen failed to fulfil his place. None of KXIP batsmen played a big knock as the visiting team was far away for a good total. While Karun Nair was the highest scorer in that innings with 34 runs, three more KXIP batsmen crossed 20-run mark but failed to play the long innings.
Opener KL Rahul scored 23 runs while Mayank Agarwal and David Miller managed to score 21 and 26 runs respectively. As a result, KXIP put a total of 143/8 in 20 overs.
Among the DD bowlers, Liam Plunket bowled brilliantly as his bowling figure was 4-0-17-3. Also, Trent Boult (2/21) and Avesh Khan (2/36) picked up two wickets each while Daniel Christian (1/17) got one wicket.
However, DD had not a smooth chase as they were losing the wickets regularly. When Shreyas Iyer played the responsible innings till the end of the game, most of the other batsmen failed to put a mark.
While young opener Prithvi Shaw began the innings with blistering 22-run knock off just 10 balls, other top-order batsmen failed to carry that innings apart from Shreyas Iyer.
Iyer played a responsible knock of 57 runs off 45 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. In the lower middle-order, he got a good support from Rahul Tewatia (24 runs) but just failed to reach the target.
In the last over, the hosts needed to score 17 runs which they failed as they were just 4-run short of KXIP’s total.
Among the KXIP bowlers, Ankit Rajput (2/23), Andrew Tye (2/25) and Mujeeb Ur Rahman (2/25) grabbed two wickets each while Barinder Sran (1/45) also got a wicket.
Here are some Twitter reactions of the match:
Delhi Daredevils favorite position on the points table.#IPL pic.twitter.com/KqyPM5lxWK
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) April 23, 2018
2 Minutes Of Silence For People Who Had Chris Gayle As Captain In Fantasy League. 🙊🙃 #DDvKXIP #DDvsKXIP #IPL2018
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) April 23, 2018
DELHI DAREDEVILS are bunch of jokes.
Could not even chase that low target in their own home ground and were complaining about last played 5 worse matches.#DDvsKXIP
Congrats KXIP XI for achieving the Top position yet again.— sandesh giri (@giri8848) April 23, 2018
Yesterday Jofra on IPL debut
4 – 0 – 23 – 3
Today Plunkett on IPL debut
4 – 0 – 17 – 3
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) April 23, 2018
Young Prithwi Shaw living by the sword. Been kept out of action for a while, wants to prove a point or two
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 23, 2018
Yuvraj to KXIP owners#DDvKXIP pic.twitter.com/TpPl16bThY
— Rishabh Srivastava (@AskRishabh) April 23, 2018
Yuvraj should get an Orange cap if he manages to stay on the crease longer than he appears in the commercial breaks. #DDvsKXIP
— Gabbar (@GabbbarSingh) April 23, 2018
Wassup Delhi, such harebrained battng?!
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 23, 2018
Summary Of Today's Match:#KXIP: Tu Haar Ke Dikha#DD: Abe Tu Haar Ke Dikha Na#DDvsKXIP #DDvKXIP #IPL2018 pic.twitter.com/UuvoXn6dHK
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) April 23, 2018
DD are playing like DD. And small chases are thrillers.
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) April 23, 2018
DD should follow its CM and start apologizing to everyone for playing IPL#DDVSKXIP
— Drunk BATMAN (@Caped_Humor) April 23, 2018
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That feeling when you take a wicket on your first delivery 😍🔥#DDvsKXIP #LivePunjabiPlayPunjabi pic.twitter.com/yjXbXcKuT4
— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) April 23, 2018
What's in the fingers and wrists of these Afghan spinners?
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 23, 2018
The low scoring game is much more romantic than my date other night #DDvsKXIP #IPL2018
— Madhur Vats (@VatsMadhur) April 23, 2018
Shreyas Iyer is holding fort out in the middle! #DilDilli #Dhadkega #DDvsKXIP #ItsCool pic.twitter.com/GqGCL1NPCR
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) April 23, 2018
Ashwin dropped this match by dropping inform batsman Gayle.#DDvKXIP
— Krishna (@Atheist_Krishna) April 23, 2018
Finch should have come to the tournament after his honeymoon 😂 #IPL2018 #DDvsKXIP #DDvKXIP
— Aditya (@AdityaPatwardha) April 23, 2018
Delhi wale kya waki me jeetne ke liye khel rahe hei, ab samjh aa gaya ki ye wakai #IPL2018 hai #DDvsKXIP
— Ashish Kumawat (@ashishkumawatak) April 23, 2018
