New Delhi [India]: All-rounder Axar Patel has grow to be solely the fourth Delhi Capitals participant to attain a fifty-plus rating, take at the least a wicket and a catch in an Indian Premier League match.
Axar achieved this feat throughout his facet's IPL sport towards Gujarat Titans at Arun Jaitley Stadium right here on Wednesday.
Coming to the crease with the crew at 35/1, Axar launched a superb counter-attack by scoring 66 in 43 balls, with 5 fours and 4 sixes. His runs got here at a strike fee of over 153. Axar shared a helpful partnership of 113 runs with skipper Rishabh Pant.
Later through the GT's run-chase of 225 runs, Azmatullah Omarzai was dismissed by Axar. The all-rounder additionally took spectacular catches to take away the top-order trio of Wriddhiman Saha, GT skipper Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan.
Aside from Axar Patel, JP Duminy, Paul Collingwood and Virender Sehwag have achieved this feat for Delhi Capitals within the IPL.
Sehwag was the primary one to take action for his franchise towards Chennai Tremendous Kings in 2008, scoring 71 runs, taking a wicket and catch.
Paul Collingwood took a wicket and a catch and scored 53 runs for Delhi towards Kolkata Knight Riders again in 2010.
Earlier than Axar, JP Duminy was the final participant for DC to perform this feat, scoring 54 runs, taking 4 wickets and two catches towards Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2015.
Coming to the sport, Gujarat received the toss and opted to bowl first. After a swift begin from openers Jake Fraser McGurk and Prithvi Shaw, DC was restricted to 44/3. Then, Axar Patel and Rishabh Pant launched a counterattack on GT. Within the demise overs, Pant joined forces with Tristan Stubbs to destroy GT's demise bowling. Pant completed at 88* in 43 balls, with 5 fours and eight sixes.
DC was 224/four of their 20 overs. Sandeep Warrier was the decide of the bowlers for GT.
Within the run-chase, GT misplaced skipper Shubman Gill early. A counter-attacking was as soon as once more in works as Wriddhiman Saha and Sai Sudarshan had an 82-run partnership. Within the later phases, David Miller , Sai Kishore and Rashid Khan put stress on DC bowlers, however the hosts held their nerves to win the sport by 4 runs, proscribing GT to 220/eight of their 20 overs.
Rasikh Salam and Kuldeep Yadav had been among the many prime bowlers for DC.
Pant took dwelling the 'Participant of the Match' award.
DC is on the sixth spot within the factors desk, with 4 wins, 5 losses and eight factors. Then again, GT is within the seventh spot with the identical win-loss and factors, however an inferior web run fee.
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