IPL 2022
Rishabh Pant Gives A Lifeline To Brevis By Dropping An Easy Looking Catch
By CricShots May 21, 2022 11:05 pm
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Mumbai Indians (MI) is playing their last match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 against Delhi Capitals (DC) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In the second innings, DC skipper, Rishabh Pant dropped an easy-looking catch on the bowling off Kuldeep and ended up giving a lifeline to Dewald Brevis.

Rishabh Pant
Rishabh Pant dropped the catch

Earlier in the game, Mi skipper, Rohit Sharma decided to bowl first. While DC made just one change in their XI as Prithvi Shaw came in for Lalit Yadav, MI made a couple of changes as Dewald Brevis and Hrithik Shokeen came in for Stubbs and Sanjay Yadav. MI managed to restrict DC to an average score of 159/7 owing to some contributions from Pant and Rovman Powell. 

While chasing an average total of 160 runs, MI openers, started slowly as they were 27/1 after the first six overs as they lost their skipper quite early.

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However, in the 12th over of the chase, Rishabh Pant dropped a sitter off a skier. Kuldeep Yadav delivered a flighted ball full on middle, Brevis went for a slog sweep and it goes straight up over the pitch. Pant calls off Kuldeep and comes forward but the ball is tailing away from him mid-pitch, Pant reaches out late and fumbles it off his fingertips and eventually dropped the catch.

Here is the video of the incident:

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Dewald Brevis, Tilak Varma, Ramandeep Singh , Tim David, Daniel Sams, Hrithik Shokeen, Riley Meredith, Jasprit Bumrah, Mayank Markande

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Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Rovman Powell, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Khaleel Ahmed