Purani Delhi 6 Captain Rishabh Pant bowling in the opening match of the Delhi Premier League. (Screengrab)
Purani Dili 6 star player and captain Rishabh Pant was seen rolling his arm over during the side’s clash against South Delhi Superstarz on Saturday. The 26-year-old took the onus upon himself to bowl the last over of the innings with Supertarz needing just one run.
Pant slipped in a gentle full toss which the batter gently pushed towards long-on to take his side home by three wickets. Additionally, Pant would also contribute with a 32-ball 35 cameo with the bat.
Pant will be joining his Duleep Trophy team D and was only available for one match.
Fifties from skipper Ayush Badoni and Priyansh Arya led the South Delhi Superstarz to victory. Earlier, Arpit Rana’s 59 off 41 balls and Vansh Bedi’s blistering cameo of 47 off 19 helped Purani Dilli 6 put up 197/3.
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South Delhi started their chase on the overdrive scoring 73 runs in the Powerplay. Priyansh Arya and Sarthak Ray played some boisterous shot in the phase ensuring Purani Dili went onto the backfoot.
However, while everything was on the track for South Delhi at 140/6 the momentum shifted as Purani Dili 6 claimed four wickets in quick succession.
Skipper Ayush Badoni (57 off 29 balls) and Tejasvi (0 off 1 balls) were dismissed in the 15th over, Kunwar Bidhuri (5 off 7 balls) in the 17th over, and Sumit Mathur (9 off 10 balls) fell in the 18th over, leaving South Delhi needing 13 runs off the last two overs.
In the end Vision Panchal and Digvesh Rathi made sure there are no more fall of wickets and displayed some resilience as they chased down the target with five balls to spare.
Brief Scores:South Delhi Superstarz beat Purani Dilli 6 won by 7 wickets
Purani Dilli 6 197/3 in 20 overs (Arpit Rana 59 off 41 balls, Vansh Bedi 47* off 19 balls, Ayush Badoni 1/27)
South Delhi Superstarz 198/7 in 19.1 overs (Ayush Badoni 57 off 29 balls, Priyansh Arya 57 off 30 balls, Shivam Sharma 2/38)
