Delhi XI vs Kolkata XI 42nd Match at Abu Dhabi, 24 Oct, 2020

Toss: Delhi, who chose to bowl
Kolkata XI 194/6 (20)
Delhi XI 135/9 (20)
Kolkata won by 59 runs
Man of the Match: Nitish Rana
  • Anrich Nortje 0 * (0)
  • Ravichandran Ashwin 14 * (13)

  Over 1.0   

Over 0.1 Tushar Deshpande bowls a good length delivery to Shubman Gill, no run, gets forward and reaches out for it with a slap towards cover.

Over 0.2 Tushar Deshpande bowls a good length delivery to Shubman Gill, Boundary! Gets wait for the ball on the back foot and simply guides it through point, right into the gap, and gets off the mark with a boundary.

Over 0.3 Tushar Deshpande bowls a good length delivery to Shubman Gill, no run, shimmies down the track and knocks the short of a length delivery in front of covers.

Over 0.4 Tushar Deshpande bowls a pitched up delivery to Shubman Gill, no run, gets across the line and times his flick straight to the man at mid-wicket.

Over 0.5 Tushar Deshpande bowls a pitched up delivery to Shubman Gill, Boundary! Moves across in the crease and flicks it along the ground to the deep mid-wicket fence for four.

Over 0.6 Tushar Deshpande bowls a good length delivery to Shubman Gill, no run, gets forward and eased it into the off side watchfully.

  Over 2.0   

Over 1.1 Anrich Nortje bowls a good length delivery to Nitish Rana, no run, gets beaten on the drive, mainly due to the lack of pace.

Over 1.2 Anrich Nortje bowls a good length delivery to Nitish Rana,1 run, gets forward and runs it down to the third man and gets off the mark.

Over 1.3 Anrich Nortje bowls a pitched up delivery to Shubman Gill,1 run, gets forward and clips it through square leg and hands over the strike to Nitish.

Over 1.4 Anrich Nortje bowls it short of length to Nitish Rana,1 run, backs away in the crease, and played an uppercut. Fortunately, it fell in front of Tushar Deshpande at the third man.

Over 1.5 Anrich Nortje bowls a good length delivery to Shubman Gill, out Caught by Axar Patel! Gill gives himself some room and cuts it hard but straight to Axar inside the ring. 

Over 1.6 Anrich Nortje bowls it short of length to Rahul Tripathi, no run, goes on to the back foot and tries to play inside the line but gets beaten.

  Over 3.0   

Over 2.1 Tushar Deshpande bowls a back of length delivery to Nitish Rana, no run, gets behind the line and watchful as he defends it off the back foot into the off side.

Over 2.2 Tushar Deshpande bowls it short of length to Nitish Rana, Boundary! Stays deep inside the crease and got it off the cue-end as he attempted the pull shot, four runs towards the deep square leg fence.

Over 2.3 Tushar Deshpande bowls a good length delivery to Nitish Rana, no run, comes on to the front foot and punches it straight back to the bowler.

Over 2.4 Tushar Deshpande bowls a good length delivery to Nitish Rana, no run, gets  back in his crease to nudge it into the on side.

Over 2.5 Tushar Deshpande bowls a good length delivery to Nitish Rana,1 run, gets forward and opens his bat face late to glide it through backward point.

Over 2.6 Tushar Deshpande bowls a good length delivery to Rahul Tripathi, no run, gets forward and left alone outside off through to the keeper.

  Over 4.0   

Over 3.1 Kagiso Rabada bowls it short of length to Nitish Rana, no run,  goes back in his crease and guides it to point.

Over 3.2 Kagiso Rabada bowls a good length delivery to Nitish Rana, no run, gets on top of the bounce and punches it to point on the back foot.

Over 3.3 Kagiso Rabada bowls a good length delivery to Nitish Rana,1 run, gets forward and pushes it square of the wicket on the off-side and picks up a single.

Over 3.4 Kagiso Rabada bowls it short of length to Rahul Tripathi, 2 runs, shuffles across on the back foot and pulls it over mid-on and picks up a couple of runs.

Over 3.5 Kagiso Rabada bowls a pitched up delivery to Rahul Tripathi, 2 runs, gets forward and drives it past the man at mid-off, and picks up a couple more.

Over 3.6 Kagiso Rabada bowls a good length delivery to Rahul Tripathi,1 run, gets forward and slices it through backward point for one.

  Over 5.0   

Over 4.1 Axar Patel tossed up delivery to Rahul Tripathi, 2 runs, gets forward and goes inside out and drives it to wide long-off for a couple of runs.

Over 4.2 Axar Patel bowls a quicker arm ball to Rahul Tripathi, no run, gets forward and knocked towards extra cover where Axar sprints across and stops it.

Over 4.3 Axar Patel bowls it short of length to Rahul Tripathi, no run, rocks back and punches it to the fielder at cover.

Over 4.4 Axar Patel tossed up delivery to Rahul Tripathi,1 run, goes down on his knee to sweep the tossed up delivery off an inside edge towards mid-wicket.

Over 4.5 Axar Patel bowls it short of length to Nitish Rana, Boundary! Goes deep inside the crease and thrashed through mid-wicket as it bisects two fielders in the deep.

Over 4.6 Axar Patel bowls a good length delivery to Nitish Rana, no run, gets forward and tries to work it across the line, ends up getting an inside edge onto the pads. Axar was up in an appeal, but no one else was interested.

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