In a rain-shortened Delhi Premier League T20 encounter on Saturday, Purani Dilli 6 defeated North Delhi Strikers by six wickets thanks to a combined effort with the bat and the ball.
The North Delhi Strikers had a rough start to their innings when the weather forced the match to be truncated to 18 overs. However, Sarthak Ranjan and Pranav Rajvanshi’s tenacious partnership of 73 off 54 balls allowed their team score a respectable 130/7.
In response, Purani Dilli 6 easily chased down the mark thanks to Keshav Dalal’s half-century, which enabled them win their second match of the competition.
Arnav Bugga (8 off 5) and Arpit Rana (19 off 12) were dismissed by Anirudh Chowdhary, giving North Delhi Strikers two vital early breakthroughs. But Purani Dilli 6 stuck to their guns and scored fifty runs in the rain-shortened game by the end of the five-over powerplay.
The scoreboard was maintained rotating quickly by Keshav Dalal and Lalit Yadav. With 11 overs remaining, Dalal reached his fifty in thirty balls, requiring just 29 runs from 42 balls to defeat Purani Dilli 6.
But in the thirteenth over, Dalal was bowled out by Chowdhary after scoring an incredible fifty-nine runs off just thirty rocks. Chowdhary took his fourth wicket of the game with the very next delivery, which went to Mayank Gusain (0 off 1).
But captain Yadav picked up speed, hitting a barrage of boundaries to guarantee Purani Dilli 6 reached the goal in just 14.2 overs with his unbeaten 44 off 31 balls.
Earlier, with just 23 runs scored by the sixth over, the North Delhi Strikers had already lost four wickets.
In the second over, Ayush Singh Thakur struck twice, getting rid of Vaibhav Kandpal (0 off 3) and Yash Dabas (0 off 2). After that, in the fifth over, Lalit Yadav dismissed Vaibhav Rawal (6 off 8), then in the next over, Yash Bhatia (0 off 7) was bowled out by Yug Gupta.
With opener Sarthak Ranjan and wicketkeeper Pranav Rajvanshi forging a hard-working fifth-wicket stand of 73 off 54 balls, the Strikers started to rally.
In the 13th over, Ranjan, who was granted a lifeline, hit his fifty in 34 balls. The North Delhi Strikers reached 100 runs in the fifteenth over, however Ranjan was removed in the same over following an outstanding 56 off 40 balls.
After scoring 14 off 9 balls, Pranshu Vijayran followed Ranjan to the pavilion, and Rajvanshi, who had hit a solid 41 off 35 balls, was run out in the last over.
With a blistering 11 off 4 balls, impact player Siddhant Sharma led North Delhi Strikers to a reasonable total of 130/7.
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