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| Prithvi Shaw missed his maiden IPL ton by a run. Image Source: Twitter |
The match 11 of Indian Premier League was the first of the season to go to a super over. At one point it seemed that Delhi Capitals would win the match comfortably, but the wicket of Prithvi Shaw on 99 changed the course of the game. Kagiso Rabada, who has been the most expensive bowler for DC tonight, successfully defended 10 runs in the super over to take DC home.
Prasidh Krishna bowled an excellent super over for Kolkata Knight Riders giving only 10 runs and taking the wicket of Shreyas Iyer. The bowling timeline read as 1,4,W,2,2,1. Rishabh Pant who was struggling with the timings could not connect any ball clearly. Shaw did not get a chance to be on the strikers end. If he would have scored even a run, he would be the only batsman to score 100 runs in a match and not a century.
It was the inform Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik who opened for KKR with Kagiso Rabada bowling for DC. Russell glanced the first ball for a boundary reducing the equation to 7 off 5. The next ball was a dot. There was another turn in the match when Rabada clean bowled Russell by a yorker on the third ball. KKR now needed 7 off 3 with two wickets in hand. Robin Uthappa who came in next managed a single to bring Karthik on strike. KKR needed 6 off 2. Karthik scooped the next ball to fine leg. With 5 runs required off one ball Uthappa could not finish it for KKR.
KKR who recorded their first defeat in the tournament failed to score 11 in the super over. Before the super over the KKR bowlers were done by the stroke-playing ability of Shaw. He played smart cricket by founding the boundary ropes often, rotating the strike and making sure the required run-rate wasn't asking too much. Shaw would have been the youngest to score an IPL century. His innings of 99 saw 12 boundaries and 3 sixes with an amazing strike rate of 180.
After Shikhar Dhawan(16) was out early on, it was Shreyas Iyer(43) and Shaw who built a partnership of 89. Iyer's contribution at that stage was crucial for DC, it also took over pressure off Shaw. Iyer was dismissed in the 12th over of Russell soon after he got a lifeline from Shubman Gill who took his catch near the boundary rope. Rishabh Pant who came in next struggled with his timing and was sent back cheaply on 11 by Kuldeep Yadav. It was Kuldeep again who bowled the last over taking it down to super over.
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