The two northern greats, Delhi Capitals (DC) and Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) were searching for their third win of IPL 2019 at the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali and the latter became successful. 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. Punjab won the game by 14 runs.
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.
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.
WATCH – Brain Fade Moment For Mayank Agarwal Resulted In His Wicket
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.
After that dismissal, Dhawan also got out in the 10th over by, along with Rishabh Pant, Colin Ingram added 62 runs for the fourth wicket, but after Pant’s dismissal in the 17th over, there was no looking back for KXIP as in the next few over the bundled out the visitors.
Sam Curran’s wickets
In the 18th over of the match, Curran came out to bowl when 23 runs in last 3 overs, but he got the wickets of Ingram and Harshal Patel in the same over and the game suddenly turned in Punjab’s way. In the next over of Mohammed Shami, he also dismissed Hanuma Viari and then the game was nothing but over for Delhi. Only two wickets were remaining and Curran got them both (Kagiso Rabada and Sandeep Lamichhane) on the first two balls completing his hat-trick as well. Curran made Rabada taste his own medicine by cleaning him witha fiery yorker. He had got the wicket of Patel on the last ball of the 18th over.
Here is the video of the hatr-trick:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1112793924949557249
WATCH – Sandeep Lamichhane Took A Revenge From Sam Curran
Delhi got bundled out for 152 and Punjab won the game by 14 runs as the visitors lost their seven wickets in a matter of 8 runs.
Brief score:
Kings XI Punjab – 166/9 in 20 overs (D Miller: 43, S Khan: 39; S Lamichhane: 2/27) defeated Delhi Capitals – 152 all out in 19.2 overs (R Pant: 39; S Curran: 4/11, M Shami: 2/27) by 14 runs.
