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Indian T20 League 2016

Scorecard - 31st Match, Gujarat vs Delhi at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot, India (03 May 2016)

Gujarat

149/7 (20) RR:7.45

Delhi won by 8 wkts

MOM: Rishabh Pant
Delhi

150/2 (17.2) RR:8.65

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17.2 - Shami to D Karthik, FOUR, fifty for DK! Gritty knock. Another short one from Shami and DK is upto the task, shuffles a tad and murders the pull behind square

16.3 - Zaheer to Jadeja, FOUR, short and ample width on offer, orthodox stuff from Jaddu who makes room and steers it late behind backward point

16.2 - Zaheer to Jadeja, FOUR, full and in the slot, Jadeja biffs it down the pitch past the non-striker, crunched!

15.4 - S Nadeem to Jadeja, FOUR, 98ks full outside off and Jadeja has thrashed that wide of long-off, beating Pant's desperate dive. Just stayed solid inside the crease and threw everything on the drive

14.4 - Shami to Jadeja, FOUR, sheesh! How well has he timed that? Dug in short, Jadeja gets on top of it with a ferocious pull through mid-wicket. 10 out of 10 for that shot

13.1 - Zaheer to D Karthik, FOUR, short and DK says "Thank you." He is looking dangerous with every passing delivery, swivelling and hooking the cap off that delivery. Slotted through short fine, raced away!

12.3 - Duminy to D Karthik, FOUR, dropped it a smidgen short and DK is onto it like a flash. Stepping back and crunching a cut through cover. Don't bother running...

10.4 - Mishra to D Karthik, FOUR, excellent use of the feet! Dances down, takes it on the full and bludgeons it to the long-off fence. Brings up the 50-run stand too

7.4 - C Morris to Raina, FOUR, tests Raina with a short ball again from over the wicket. Angled across him and Raina did well to time his swivel. Powered his pull to fetch it from outside off and turned with it to place it wide of backward square leg. Top shot

7.2 - C Morris to D Karthik, FOUR, the AB shot. Pre-empts the shuffle, walks across the stumps and takes this full ball on the half-volley. Scooped wide of the fine leg in place to shoplift this boundary

3.5 - S Nadeem to Finch, FOUR, how do I put it? Short, yes, Finche goes downtown. Uses his long handle (on the golf club?) and flat-bats it wide of the umpire

1.4 - C Morris to Dwayne Smith, FOUR, that's a drive in free fall. Overpitched, yes, but Smith was quickly forward to cream it wide of mid-off. Zaheer flung to his left but that sped off the bat. Under his arm and to the fences

1.1 - C Morris to Dwayne Smith, FOUR, pies to start. Curling full on the pads, Smith just has to bury his head and clip it through deep mid-wicket. Never an easy start. Never

0.3 - S Nadeem to Dwayne Smith, FOUR, drags his length back, Smith gets on his knee and barrels a sweep round the corner. Rolled his wrists to keep it on the ground too

19.1 - Shami to Jadeja, SIX, that's smacked into Mars! Full and in the slot, Jadeja clears his front leg and cashes on it. Lofting it with neat extension of the arms over long-on

5.2 - Shami to Raina, SIX, that's been bullied. Raina was up for it. He always is. The short ball. Shami pounds in a bumper, Raina backs away a touch to make room, puts on the jet pack to jump higher and cut uppishly over third man. All. The. Way

20.0 - Shami to Jadeja, out Ishan Kishan Run Out!! 1 run completed. And a wicket off the final ball to cap off the innings. Sums up how well Delhi have bowled and fielded. Jadeja clipped this one to deep square and there was never a two there. Billings is onto it quickly and he sends in a flat, accurate throw to QDK who catches Ishan Kishan short. Ishan Kishan run out (S Billings/de Kock) 2(2)

19.0 - C Morris to Faulkner, out Bowled!! Morris gets his man! Dipping full toss homing in on leg-stump. Missed the yorker but the delivery was good enough to beat Faulkner's attempted scoop. He walked too far across and lost the sight of the ball. Leg peg goes for a walk. Faulkner b C Morris 7(6)

17.3 - Shami to D Karthik, out Bowled!! Knocked him over! DK shows his cards early by backing away a tad too early. Shami fires it on a length and aims for the top of off. DK fails to slice the drive and his off pole takes the beating. D Karthik b Shami 53(43) [4s-5]

11.0 - Mishra to Raina, out Stumped!! He has done him in the flight. Raina is stumped and the umpires are checking for a possible no ball. The stumping is clean but is that a fair delivery? Looks like Mishy has got some part of the boot behind the line and is okay. "OUT" flashes on the giant screen and Raina is back on his bike. Premeditates and skips out to negate the spin on this delivery. But it was a googly and Raina got into a bit of a tangle as he fails to the fetch the delivery that's fired across him. He misses and QDK does the rest. Raina st de Kock b Mishra 24(20) [4s-1 6s-1]

4.0 - S Nadeem to Finch, out Caught by Rishabh Pant!! This is harakiri. Another one perishes. Drifting down leg, Finch looks to sweep. Gets a top-edge that carries only as far as short fine leg. Just a few steps back to take this. The ball bounced a touch more to trap Finch there. Finch c Rishabh Pant b S Nadeem 5(5) [4s-1]

3.1 - S Nadeem to Dwayne Smith, out Caught by C Morris!! Wait, what? Delhi have made up for half their sins - started timidly with the ball but not today. Not the greatest of deliveries to get the second wicket. Slightly shortish in length to tempt Smith into the mow over long-on, skids on quickly and Smith ended up mistiming it high to the man in the deep. Just swung his bat, was early and paid the price off the toe-end. Dwayne Smith c C Morris b S Nadeem 15(14) [4s-3]

2.5 - Zaheer to Brendon McCullum, out Bowled!! Zaheer strikes. The binary strikes. Gets it on a length, rolls his fingers over without robbing much of the pace and deceives McCullum. He's early into his blindfolded slog across the line, misses and the LEDs light up. Didn't think it stayed low; more the finger roll that did Brendon McCullum. Brendon McCullum b Zaheer 1(4)

16.0 - S Nadeem to Jadeja, 1 run, another one targetting the stumps, Jadeja eases it down to long-on. Went hard and ended up mistiming it towards the bowler who misfields in his followthrough

11.5 - Zaheer to Jadeja, no run, direct hit and DK was gone! Jaddu tucks this delivery towards short square and DK is half-way down the pitch, sans consulting his partner. Sent back and Duminy's throw misses the stumps. Thus, dear readers, he is home

4.2 - C Morris to Raina, no run, dabbed with an open bat and runs. Billings intercepts at point, has a strike at the stumps but misses. Karthik might have been short there

16.2 - Shivil to Duminy, FOUR, follows it up with an exquisite lofted drive over extra-cover. These three left handers have lit up the night. Fullish googly outside off, Duminy leans into it and marinades it to the fence

16.1 - Shivil to Duminy, FOUR, oh superbly executed. Again, it's not the easiest balls to reverse-sweep as he is handcuffed for room. But then Duminy so smartly paddles it past short third man

15.3 - Jadeja to Samson, FOUR, completely deserves this treatment, does Jadeja. As a spinner, there should be a suit filed against you for overstepping. Tries to mitigate the free-hit by darting a full ball outside off, but Samson uses a lot of bottom hand to power it straight of long-off

12.5 - Dwayne Smith to de Kock, FOUR, brilliantly played. Oh, this man. What a delight with that backlift. Punches a full ball airily over mid-off

9.1 - Shivil to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, Pant is just taking the opposition to the cleaners now. Flatter delivery and on the stumps, Pant buries it to the mid-wicket boundary

8.3 - Raina to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, shorter in length, Pant rocks back and pulls it to the deep mid-wicket fence. He is on a roll today

8.2 - Raina to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, lovely strike by Pant. He skips out of the track, takes it on the half-volley, keeps the drive all along the ground into the downtown territories

7.1 - Shivil to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, slightly shorter in length, Pant looks to reverse sweep and gets it off the glove past the keeper and the ball zooms away to the third man fence

5.5 - D Kulkarni to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, very full and it turns out to be yet another of those off-pace deliveries, Pant lifts it to the long-on boundary. It just zooted away to the fences

5.3 - D Kulkarni to de Kock, FOUR, short and subsidized with width, de Kock makes his own room as well and cracks it over the short third man fielder and into the fence

4.5 - Raina to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, this has been a rollicking 50-run stand between the pair. Pant sinks on one knee and slog-sweeps it to the deep backward square leg fence

1.5 - D Kulkarni to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, well, it is raining fours at the moment. A touch of width on offer, Pant cracks the punch to the deep backward point fence. He nailed that one

1.4 - D Kulkarni to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, in the Under-19 WC in Bangladesh, Pant showed that ability to twin timing and placement. Here, too, he pushes forward, drives it between point and cover and the ball vrooms away to the fence. It breached the gap with needlepoint precision

1.3 - D Kulkarni to Rishabh Pant, FOUR, fuller length delivery and on the stumps, Pant uses the pick-up shot and it races away to the deep mid-wicket boundary

1.0 - P Kumar to de Kock, FOUR, Praveen yanks his length back, de Kock pulls it off the sweet spot of the willow to the long-on fence. He has that uncanny ability to crunch the pull off the front foot. The fielder at mid-on did put in a dive, but to no avail. Bright start for DEL

0.3 - P Kumar to de Kock, FOUR, sliding down leg, de Kock cracks the short arm pull to the deep backward square leg fence. Kaushik fumbles a touch and that facilitates a boundary

17.2 - Jadeja to Samson, SIX, finishes it by nailing a slog-sweep over deep mid-wicket. It's been a thumping win for the visitors

12.0 - Faulkner to Rishabh Pant, SIX, wow. Isn't he coming into his own! This promotion at the top of the order has worked wonders for the 18-year old. Length ball just outside off, Pant strides forward and swings it through the line straight back over Faulkner's head. Easily clears

8.5 - Raina to Rishabh Pant, SIX, Pant is playing a blizzard. He reaches his fifty in style. He slogs a flatter delivery over the mid-wicket fence. It went a long way back. Remember, this is a big ground

3.2 - P Kumar to de Kock, SIX, Praveen yanks his length back a bit, de Kock again brings out the pick-up shot and it clears the fine leg fence with utmost ease

14.5 - Shivil to de Kock, out Caught by Dwayne Smith!! And now it's the turn of de Kock to throw it away. Probably it's the high temperatures, probably the boredom of everything being too easy. Whatever it is, there's a clear misjudgement of length on his part. Too full to be playing the slog-sweep, but he still manages a decent enough contact. Only that this is a mammoth stadium, big boundaries. Caught at deep mid-wicket around 10 yards inside the rope. de Kock c Dwayne Smith b Shivil 46(45) [4s-4 6s-1]

13.3 - Jadeja to Rishabh Pant, out Caught by D Karthik!! Ah, some consolation for Gujarat. A tired shot from Pant after a superb innings sees the end of him. Darted on middle from round the wicket, Pant aims a slog-sweep but chops it off the bottom edge onto pad and spoons a dolly for Karthik to complete. Rishabh Pant c D Karthik b Jadeja 69(40) [4s-9 6s-2]