Shikhar Dhawan in full stream is a treat to watch. The southpaw played a standout amongst his best T20 thumps, an unbeaten 63-ball 97, as he guided Delhi Capitals to a far reaching seven-wicket prevail upon Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens here on Friday.
IPL 2019: DC limited KKR to 178 for seven, in the wake of embeddings the host, and accomplished the objective with seven balls to save. It kept up a fresh start against the Dinesh Karthik-drove side this season as it recorded its fourth win. Dhawan's splendor brought DC a solid begin. Depending on his uncommon planning and situation, the left-hander, who hit 11 fours and two sixes, drove easily on the two sides separated from cutting and flicking the KKR bowlers with certainty.
Off to a flier
Dhawan set the tone by ravaging two sixes, through upper cuts, and a four off Prasidh Krishna in the third finished. He at that point hit Russell for three fours in the beside make his goals unmistakable.
Indeed, even as DC lost Prithvi Shaw and Shreyas Iyer to fine gets by Karthik, a completely engaged Dhawan never permitted KKR get any considerable increase.
Dhawan, who bettered his past most elevated score of 95 not out, banded together Rishabh Pant (46 off 31), who played a similarly calm thump, for essential 105 rushes to make DC's adventure smooth.Earlier, handling a couple of new openers, as Chris Lynn was unwell and Sunil Narine cleared path for Carlos Brathwaite, KKR lost IPL debutant Joe Denly to the principal chunk of the match.
Be that as it may, Shubman Gill, who had achieved twofold digits just once in last five excursions, rose to the test of opening the innings and assembled his first observable score (65 off 39 balls) of the period.
The 19-year-old veiled his awareness of other's expectations with his standard cool aura and showed an excellent blend of forceful shots and deft contacts in front and behind the stumps to produce a 32-ball 63-run remain with Robin Uthappa (28 off 30). Uthappa ad libbed astutely to hit three eminent limits off DC's star bowler Kagiso Rabada's opening over.
The loss of Uthappa and Nitish Rana did not annoy Gill. He pivoted the strike and showed some awesome strokes, including two sweet sixes, before being gotten at short fine-leg off Keemo Paul.
Russell in torment
KKR's 54,000 fans gave a stirring welcome to the trustworthy Andre Russell in the thirteenth over. The West Indian stole some saucy limits before releasing the huge hits in spite of scowling due to an excruciating wrist and hurting ribs (in the wake of being hit).
Russell picked Rabada for uncommon treatment as he clobbered the South African for a six and a four of every one over and two monstrous sixes on the leg side in another. Russell's takeoff frustrated the onlookers and furthermore influenced KKR's advancement.
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