Pantastic Rishabh powers DD to 174
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Bengaluru, April 21: Young batsmen Rishab Pant and Shreyas Iyer cracked halfcenturies as Delhi Daredevils recovered from a slow start to post a respectable 174/ 5 against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their IPL fixture at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday.
Pant ( 85) anchored the DD innings as he shared a 75- run stand in 8.1 overs with Iyer ( 52 off 31 balls) and then added another 65 with Rahul Tewatia ( 13 not out). His 48- ball innings was laced with six boundaries and seven sixes. For RCB, leg- spinner Yuzvendra Chahal ( 2/ 22) claimed two wickets, while Umesh Yadav ( 1/ 27), Washington Sundar ( 1/ 31) and Corey Anderson ( 1/ 10) took a wicket each. After electing to bowl, RCB tightened the screw on Delhi Daredevils right from the start with Umesh Yadav dismissing skipper Gautam Gambhir ( 3) in the third over. The visitors could manage only 11 in first four overs.
First down Iyer ( 52) then tried to break the shackles by smashing two boundaries off Yadav but Yuzvendra Chahal soon produced flipper and a Delhi Daredevils: J. Roy b Chahal 5, G. Gambhir c Chahal b Yadav 3, S. Iyer c Mohammed Siraj b Washington Sundar 52, R. Pant c de Villiers b Anderson 85, G. Maxwell c Mohammed Siraj b Chahal 4, R. Tewatia ( not out) 13, C. Morris ( not out) 0. Extras: ( lb9, w3) 12. Total: ( for 5 wkts, in 20 overs) 174.
FoW: 1- 7, 2- 23,
105, 5- 170. Bowling: Yadav 4- 0- 27- 1, Woakes 4- 0- 40- 0, Chahal 3- 0- 22- 2 ( 1w), Siraj 4- 035- 0 ( 1w), Sundar 4- 0- 311, Anderson 1- 0- 10- 1. 3- 98, 4-
cleaned up the other opener Jason Roy ( 5), who was struggling against the lethal leg- spin of the Indian spinner. New man Pant then joined Iyer and he was off the mark with a boundary as Delhi Daredevils reached 28/ 2, the lowest powerplay score this season. Iyer smashed a four and six off Yadav's last over as DD crossed the 50- mark in 9 overs. The young duo slowly started to pile up the runs and amassed 75 runs in 8.1 overs to take Delhi close to the 100- mark.