Parag’s Magnificent 84 Sets Up Win Over DC 12 runs RR Achi-News

Jaipur, March 28: Young Riyan Parag showed why he is considered a super talent as he hit a stunning 84 not out off 45 balls to set up a 12-run win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals in their IPL match here today Thursday.

Sent in, RR were reduced to 36 for 3 in the eighth over but 22-year-old Parag single-handedly took the home side to 185 for 5 with a magnificent unbeaten knock studded with seven fours and six sixes .

Parag, who was promoted to number 4 by the team management this season and hit 43 in the previous game, took 25 runs off veteran South African rider Anrich Nortje with scores of 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 1 in the final over. to hit his highest T20 score.

Chasing 186 for victory, DC could only manage 173 for 5 in 20 overs although South African youngster Tristan Stubbs (44 not out from 23 balls) kept them in the hunt until the final over and it was 17 runs needed from there.

Avesh Khan conceded just four runs to help RR win their second game in a row.

South African pacers Nandre Burger and Yuzvendra Chahal also picked up two wickets each to contribute to the RR’s win.

“Definitely disappointing. The best thing to do from here is learn from it. The bowlers did well through the 15-16 overs. But the batsmen did well at the death, hopefully we will do better in the next game,” said DC captain Rishabh Pant.

DC were reduced to 34 for 2 in the fourth over with Burger taking two wickets in three balls in a brilliant display of fast bowling.

Burger, who became an Impact Sub to Shimron Hetmyer, dismissed opener Mitchell Marsh (23 off 12 balls) and Ricky Bhui (0) in the fourth over.

DC captain Rishabh Pant came out to bat at the fall of Bhui’s wicket and along with senior batsman David Warner built the innings without taking too many risks. Delhi were 89 for 2 at the halfway stage.

Warner was the more aggressive one as he got the boundaries to keep DC in the hunt. The senior Australian batsman fell one run short of his fifty courtesy of a superb diving catch by Sandeep Sharma off the bowling of Avesh in the 12th over.

Warner and Pant were part of a crucial partnership of 67 runs for the third wicket.

Playing in his 100th IPL match and 14 months after a horrific car accident, Pant tried to build the innings with occasional boundaries. But he got out for a 26-ball 28 as Chahal induced a light bottom edge for Sanju Samson to do the rest behind the stumps in the 14th over.

The asking rate shot up to more than 13 runs an over and DC needed 66 from the last five overs.

Stubbs kept DC in the game with two consecutive sixes off Ravichandran Ashwin in the 17th over, but in the end the Delhi team fell short by 12 runs.

They needed 34 runs from the last two overs which they couldn’t get. It was DC’s second loss in a row.

Earlier, Parag shared 54 and 52 runs respectively with Ravichandran Ashwin (29) and Dhruv Jurel (20) after RR got off to a shaky start.

Royals captain Samson hit three consecutive boundaries in the fourth over bowled by pacer Mukesh Kumar before kicking a delivery from Khaleel Ahmed two overs later to Pant to be out for 15.

RR were 30 for 2 by then as Mukesh gave DC their first success with the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal (5).

The Royals were in more trouble after wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav literally forced his captain Pant to take a review, which later proved successful, to dismiss Englishman Jos Buttler for an LBW decision.

Ashwin came out to bat at number five and managed to take Kuldeep’s delivery for six to help RR reach 58 for 3 at the halfway mark. He gave Nortje even harder treatment with two sixes in the next over conceding 15 runs.

However, Ashwin took out Tristan Stubbs near the boundary ropes for 29 off 19 balls.

Parag then made his presence felt, hitting two boundaries and a six off Ahmed to take RR past 100 in the 15th over. PTI PDS PDS ATK ATK

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