Rishabh Pant smased 31 runs off the final over as the wicket-keeper-batter hit Mohit Sharma for four sixes and one four to help Delhi Capitals (DC) to 224/4 against Gujarat Titans (GT) in the 2024 Indian Premier League at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday.
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In fact, DC notched up 97 runs in the last 5 overs, thanks to Pant and Tristran Stubbs, who smashed a seven-ball 26
Delhi started their innings with a barrage of powerful hits from Jake Fraser-McGurk and Prithvi Shaw but both of them fell prey in the deep and that too in the same over that put them on the back foot. Shai Hope too fell cheaply.
Axar Patel walked out to bat at number three and along with a resurgent Rishabh Pant added 113 runs for the 4th wicket. Axar smashed 66 off 43 balls.
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Axar got a move on by crashing a drive off Omarzai, before nailing a slog-sweep for six on a Rashid Khan googly. He and Pant took a pulled four each off Rashid’s short balls, followed by the latter slog-sweeping Noor Ahmad for a four and six each.
Axar continued to thrive against spinners – driving and cutting with ease for his boundaries, while Pant feasted on Mohit Sharma’s short balls by pulling and slicing to take a brace of fours. Axar lofted a drive off Shahrukh Khan for six, before reaching his fifty in 37 balls with a pulled four off Rashid.
Pant was delightful in the 16th over against Mohit – whipping off his pads and thumping a slower ball over long-off for a brace of sixes, before bringing up the century of the fourth-wicket stand. Axar then hammered Noor for back-to-back sixes in the 17th over before holing out to long-on to fall for a 43-ball 66.
Pant got his fifty in 34 balls by lofting a full-toss from Mohit over long-on for six, and was met with a grand applause from the crowd. GT brought in R Sai Kishore’s left-arm spin in the 19th over to counter right-handed Tristan Stubbs.
But the batter creamed the drives twice in the gap between extra-cover and long-off, followed by clubbing the spinner for two mammoth sixes over long-on in the 22-run over.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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