The Delhi Capitals (DC) openers, Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw played a crucial role in their team’s win in the opening game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 against Chennai Super Kings (CSK). They celebrated the win with a dance video. In the video, Dhawan is seen grooving to a song even as Shaw remains still, roleplaying the characters in the song.
The video ends with a blooper as Dhawan made a failed attempt to lift the youngster. Captioning the video on Instagram, Shikhar Dhawan wrote: “Too heavy to pick.” The two DC opening batsmen added 138 runs in just 13.3 overs in a chase of 189 runs to give their team a good start against MS Dhoni and his men.
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Fantastic batting 👌
Match-winning knocks 👍
Some cool dance moves 😎@SDhawan25 & @PrithviShaw recap @DelhiCapitals' win in their first game of the #VIVOIPL and more. 👏👏 – By @NishadPaiVaidya #CSKvDC @Vivo_IndiaWatch the full interview 🎥 👇 https://t.co/WKNa608tja pic.twitter.com/5jDGFXnzlz
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 11, 2021
Shaw played a dazzling knock of 72 off just 38 balls with the help of 9 fours and 3 sixes and Dhawan also played a match-winning knock of 85 off 54 balls with 10 fours and 2 sixes. In the end, DC chased down the target with 8 balls to spare.
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Earlier, a half-century from Suresh Raina on his comeback for CSK and lower middle-order cameos from Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran helped their team to reach a defendable score of 188 for 7 after being asked to bat by Rishabh Pant, DC captain.
It was Pant’s first match as DC captain, leading the team in the absence of regular skipper Shreyas Iyer who will be missing the entire tournament due to a shoulder injury. DC also missed their strike bowlers – Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje, who were in quarantine on Saturday.
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Axar Patel, the DC all-rounder, was also unavailable as he is yet to recover completely after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this month. The IPL will be played in six cities – Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Delhi, and Ahmedabad. The final will be played on May 30 in Ahmedabad.
