2024-08-17 19:24:18
New Delhi: The country’s capital has started a new cricket league of its own. The name of this league is Delhi Premier League. The opening match of the league was played between South Delhi Superstars and Old Delhi 6 at Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium. In this match, IPL star Rishabh Pant was captaining Old Delhi 6, while Ayush Badoni is the captain of South Delhi Superstars. In the first match of the league, South Delhi Superstars won the toss and asked Old Delhi to bat first. Coming to bat first, Old Delhi put 197 runs on the scoreboard.
After this, the South African superstar started batting. Sarthak Ray and Priyansh Arya came to open the innings for the team. Both had a slow start for the first few overs, but then captain Pant handed over the 5th over of the power play to spinner Lalit Yadav. Lalit Yadav also plays with Pant for Delhi Capitals in the IPL.
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There was a rain of runs in Lalit’s over
Rishabh Pant’s decision to make Lalit bowl in the power play proved to be completely wrong. On the first ball of Lalit Yadav’s over, Priyans Arya hit a six. After this, he took a run and gave the strike to Sarthak. Sarthak also opened his hands in Lalit’s over and hit two back to back fours. After this, he also took two runs on the fifth ball and kept the strike with himself. Lalit tried to escape somehow on the last ball of the over, but it could not happen. Sarthak made it the most expensive over of the power play by hitting a six on the last ball. Captain Rishabh Pant started sweating after seeing Lalit Yadav being beaten like this.
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In this way, despite a slow start, South Delhi Superstar scored 88 runs in the power play. However, the team suffered its first setback in the form of Sarthak in the last over of the power play. Sarthak batted in a rapid style and scored 41 runs in 26 balls which included 4 fours and 3 sixes.