IPL 2020, DC vs KKR as it happened: Delhi win by 18 runs despite late charge by Morgan, Tripathi

Here’s how the table looks now:

DC win by 18 runs: Another good last-over for DC in this IPL by Stoinis but the win was set-up by Nortje dismissing Morgan in the 19th. KKR really made a fist of this run-chase out of nowhere. But DC end up deserving winners.

19.2: Well, that should be it. Tripathi is bowled. Superb innings. Good yorker from Stoinis.

19.1: Tripathi hits a four over point. 22 needed off 5.

Stoinis to bowl...

End of 19th over, KKR 202/7: Six innings on the trot 200 has been crossed. But KKR needed 26 off the last over.

18.3: WICKET! BIG ONE! Morgan cannot the fielder at square leg. Hetmyer takes the catch. 44 off 18 balls, what an innings. Nortje strikes.

KKR need 29 off 10 balls. Nortje with two singles to start the 19th over.

By the way... four overs done and 1/51 for Rabada. Who is going to bowl the last?

KKR need 31 off 12 balls. WOW. Are KKR favourites here?

After 18 overs, KKR 198/6 (Morgan 43, Tripathi 30): Morgan takes a single. Tripathi is given out next ball but DRS comes to his rescue. 23 runs from that over as Tripathi hit a four off the last ball.

Last 9 balls, 42 runs...

MADNESS!

17.1: RABADA TO MORGAN, SIX! Over fine leg, on the roof.

17.2: RABADA TO MORGAN, SIX! Over square leg.

17.3: RABADA TO MORGAN, SIX! Yorker gone wrong, over square leg.

After 17 overs, KKR 175/6 (Morgan 24, Tripathi 26): A four and six follows. TRIPATHI! wow, this chase is alive again. 54 off 18 needed now. Mad over for KKR.

BACK-TO-BACK SIXES!: Length ball from Stoinis...a massive six by Tripathi off Stoinis that goes out of the ground. Then a full toss, and that also goes for a six. Well... 64 needed off 21 balls.

After 16 overs, KKR 152/6 (Morgan 23, Tripathi 4): If this innings doesn’t tell KKR think-tank that Morgan is batting too low.... hits a four and six off Rabada’s bowling, he’s striking at more than 200 now.

After 15 overs, KKR 137/6 (Morgan 11, Tripathi 2): Morgan is caught off a full toss but it is called a no-ball. The free hit is also a full toss but the England captain cannot put that away. 92 needed off 30.

After 14 overs, KKR 131/6: The wickets keep tumbling. Harshal Patel with a good catch now in the deep and it’s end of Pat Cummins. Nortje with the wicket. The upper cut did not have the distance. Morgan, batting far too late, hits a first ball six.

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After 13 overs, KKR 118/5: Two in two for Harshal Patel! Dinesh Karthik is back in the pavilion as he cannot clear mid-off, with Shikhar Dhawan taking a sharp catch. Pat Cummins plays out the hat-trick ball. It was actually a lovely slower ball that could have deceived a lesser batsman. All the same, the match is all but out of KKR’s reach now. (Of course, not over till its over and all that)

After 12.4 overs, KKR 117/4: SIX AND OUT, AGAIN! Harshal Patel the bowler, Axar Patel the catcher. Rana out for 58 off 35 balls, one delivery after hitting a big six down the ground. Good change of pace from the all-ronder.

After 12 overs, KKR 108/3 (Rana 50, DK 5): FIFTY FOR NITISH RANA! His 9th of the tournament and this one has come off 32 balls. It’s a good over from Stoinis though, just a one boundary for Rana past point. Match is slipping away from KKR.

After 11 overs, KKR 100/3 (Rana 44, DK 3): That Russell dismissal may just have knocked the stuffing out this run-chase for KKR. Harshal Patel concedes just 6. If KKR were serious about this chase, they would be going hard against Harshal. This is now damage limitation.

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ADVANTAGE DELHI: SIX AND OUT! Kagiso Rabada wins the battle against KKR’s star man. After being hit for a six down the ground, he induces a top edge that is caught at third man by Nortje. GAME-CHANGER! He enjoyed that one, did Rabada.

Heating up: After a low full toss for a dot ball, Rabada tries a cutter but drops it short. It’s brutally slammed down the ground for four. Off the fourth ball, another full-length ball is lofted straight for a six.

Rabada vs Russell...here we go!

After 9 overs, KKR 84/2 (Rana 42, Russell 3): A no ball from Mishi bhai and the free hit is slammed down the ground for six by Rana. That was a lengthy over as Mishra, with one ball left, calls for treatment on his hand.

DreRuss is in early... this is the make or break phase of the match, you’d think.

After 8.1 overs, KKR 72/2: WICKET! PRESSURE PAYS. Amit Mishra strikes, a rare dismissal off spin bowling for Shubman Gill. He is out for 28 off 22 balls. A few good shots but not quite an ideal innings in the run-chase. Brilliant from Mishra though.

After 8 overs, KKR 72/1 (Gill 28, Rana 34): Ashwin back into the attack. More of a medium pacer over than spin, that one! After just six runs from the first five balls, he bowls a wide and then concedes a boundary on the offside to Rana.

After 7 overs, KKR 61/1 (Gill 24, Rana 28): Oh what an over Mishi bhai. Should have had a wicket but concedes just 2 runs. Gold dust in this situation.

Dropped! Nitish Rana gets a reprieve batting on 27. A leading edge induced, return catch dropped by Amit Mishra. The veteran should have done better there. Needs treatment on his finger.

After 6 overs, KKR 59/1: (Gill 23, Rana 27): Unlucky Harshal...two good balls, fired in full but both find the fence off Rana’s outside edge. Bowls a lovely slower ball to beat the batsman after that. KKR are ahead of where Delhi were at the end of powerplay (57/1).

Harshal Patel for the first time this IPL...

After 5 overs, KKR 47/1: (Gill 21, Rana 18): Gill with lovely use of wrists to turn one behind square leg for another boundary. Picked up a slower bouncer nice and early. He is scoring at a good rate without losing his shape. 8 from that Stoinis over.

After 4 overs, KKR 39/1: (Gill 15, Rana 16): Gill plays a classy lofted straight drive for four and then a mishit pull shot carries over the fence just about for a six. Nortje finishes well with a couple of dot balls. 12 from that over.

After 3 overs, KKR 27/1: (Gill 4, Rana 16): Two sixes in one over and both over the leg-side by Rana. Not afraid to go against the spin, he connects well with two slogs. Superb timing. Ashwin’s start-stop / round-arm tactics did not quite work that over.

Ashwin into the attack...

After 2 overs, KKR 12/1: (Gill 2, Rana 3) - NARINE GONE! His struggles with the bat continue. Not the start KKR wanted (or some might say he is gone early without wasting balls). Narine is bowled by Nortje in the 2nd over one ball after he was served up a superb bouncer that flew for four. Nortje goes full next ball, timber. Narine’s poor run with the bat continues. Rana is the new man in.

After 1 over, KKR 4/0: (Narine 3, Gill 1): Narine’s discomfort against express pace is well known. Rabada is troubling him already. Got one shot away but even that was kept down to 2.

Gill and Narine out in the middle...Rabada runs in.

End of DC innings, 228/4 (20): Five innings in Sharjah so far, five times 200 has been crossed. We have already seen the record chase in IPL when RR made 226 a few nights ago at this venue. Will that record be broken tonight?

End of 20 overs, DC 228/4: What a final over by DreRuss! Three dot balls, the wicket of Stoinis and kept Iyer out of strike (88*). Just 7 conceded. Might just be crucial, you know?

19.3: In the slot, hammered down the ground by Hetmyer. Six.

19.2: Dot ball to Hetmyer, good short ball.

19.1 Stoinis dismissed by Russell to start the final over. Iyer stays off strike.

After 19 overs, DC 221/3 (Iyer 88, Stoinis 1): 20 RUNS! MADNESS! 4-2-6-1-1-6 Two more sixes for Shreyas Iyer in the 19th over as DK gives the ball to spinner Varun. Oh well, that didn’t work out well for KKR. Can Iyer reach his century? He will be off strike to start the last over.

After 19 overs, DC 221/3 (Iyer 88, Stoinis 1): 20 RUNS! MADNESS! 4-2-6-1-1-6 Two more sixes for Shreyas Iyer in the 19th over as DK gives the ball to spinner Varun. Oh well, that didn’t work out well for KKR. Can Iyer reach his century? He will be off strike to start the last over.

After 18 overs, DC 201/3 (Iyer 69, Stoinis 0): Rishabh Pant was looking in good touch and then gets out playing the helicopter shot. That’s interesting, when you think about it no? But another big over as the 200 came up. Russell concedes 6-4-4 and then finds the fielder at long on.

OUTTA HERE, AGAIN! Rishabh Pant gives it a good thump as a full length ball from DreRuss goes out of the stadium. Raining boundaries in Sharjah.

After 17 overs, DC 186/2 (Iyer 68, Pant 24): ANOTHER MASSIVE OVER. The bowlers starting to look despondent, as is the case often in Sharjah. 6-1-1-4-4-1. Iyer with all the boundaries in that over as Cummins got his length wrong. Few too many in the slot.

After 16 overs, DC 169/2 (Iyer 52, Pant 23): An expensive over from Mavi. It goes 4-1-4-1-4-4. The one boundary that Iyer hit was unlucky but the other three that Pant hit were brutal, all around the ground. Power-hitting on display.

FIFTY FOR SHREYAS IYER! 51 off 26 balls for Delhi’s captain. Has hit some massive sixes, gets to the landmark after a misfield by Cummins. Solid knock.

After 15 overs, DC 151/2 (Iyer 47, Pant 10): Again Nagarkoti showing why he is so highly rated. Giving nothing for Pant and Iyer to get under by keeping a full length, clocking 140ks-plus consistently. He just can’t finish the over too well though, as he overdoes the wide-of-offstump tact. Two wides. But follows that up with a yorker.

After 14 overs, DC 142/2 (Iyer 43, Pant 7): It was shaping into a good over from Cummins as he was restricting Iyer and Pant to 1s and 2s. But Iyer hits a superb lofted cover drive for four off the last ball to make it a 11-run over.

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Pat Cummins comes back...

After 13 overs, DC 131/2 (Iyer 38, Pant 1): BREAKTHROUGH! Prithvi Shaw is caught by Shubman Gill at long on off the bowling of Kamlesh Nagarkoti. The pacer comes back after getting hit for a six earlier in that over. U19 World Cup winners, assemble. Pant is in now and is almost run out when getting off the mark. Timeout called.

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After 12 overs, DC 121/1 (Shaw 59, Iyer 36): BIG OVER! Shreyas Iyer hits his trademark not-looking-up lofted down the ground six that sails out of the stadium. Big over that for DC. 16 runs from the 12th as Iyer finishes that with a cut past point. Varun taken to task.

After 11 overs, DC 105/1 (Shaw 54, Iyer 25): SIX AND FIFTY! Down the ground goes Prithvi Shaw and brings up a half century off 35 balls. Sixth in IPL. Iyer helps himself to another six over square leg. An over that started with a superb yorker by Nagarkoti, ended up going for 16.

After 10 overs, DC 89/1 (Shaw 46, Iyer 17): Narine has not quite got his line and length right consistently enough. In the slot for Iyer and he smacks one over cow corner for his first six. 11 from that over. DC need more of that.

After 9 overs, DC 78/1 (Shaw 43, Iyer 9): What an over from DreRuss. Fires in a few full balls on the stumps that the batsmen can’t get under. Finishes with a bouncer. This is actually quite good by KKR. Just three runs in that over. Shaw got hit by a Cummins throw in that over but he would have been a goner if that was a direct hit. Lax running.

After 8 overs, DC 75/1 (Shaw 41, Iyer 8): Mavi gets hit for a six by his U19 WC captain Shaw. And then Iyer finishes that over with a powerful hit down the ground. In the air, Mavi tried catching that but no chance. DC needed that momentum.

After 7 overs, DC 61/1 (Shaw 33, Iyer 2): Have DC missed a trick by sending in Iyer instead of letting Pant or Hetmyer have a go? It’s a top over by Andre Russell. Mixed his lengths up nicely, finished with a brilliant yorker.

After 6 overs, DC 57/1 (Shaw 31, Iyer 0): WICKET! DHAWAN GONE! Varun CV has been solid for KKR this season and in his 2nd over in the powerplay tonight, he has picked up the wicket of Dhawan. Morgan takes a good high catch. Varun’s figures 1/13 after 2 overs. Great stuff. That over began with a four for Shaw over cover and once again Varun came back well.

After 5 overs, DC 51/0 (Shaw 25, Dhawan 26): BACK-TO-BACK SIXES! Shikhar Dhawan hits Sunil Narine for two sixes, the second one sailing outside the ground. Both were sweeps, both middled perfectly. Against the spin technically, but doesn’t matter when you connect in Sharjah. A loud appeal for LBW against Shaw, not given.

Narine into the attack...

After 4 overs, DC 36/0 (Shaw 23, Dhawan 13): Varun CV into the attack nice and early. Starts off really well with a series of pushed through, short of length balls. A full ball is put away nicely over cover by Dhawan for four but still, a decent over. KKR will want a wicket or two now, though.

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After 3 overs, DC 29/0 (Shaw 21, Dhawan 8): Shaw was not quite middling the ball to start that over. Going a bit too hard and losing his shape. Off the fourth ball, just manages to get one over the mid-on fielder and it races for four. But boy does he middle the next one! Bouncer gone wrong, around Shaw’s hip...pulled away handsomely for the first of many sixes tonight.

After 2 overs, DC 16/0 (Shaw 9, Dhawan 7): Using the pace from Mavi, Dhawan gets a boundary over short third but its an impressive comeback by the young pacer. Just 7 from the next five balls.

Shivam Mavi comes in to bowl... a tough test awaits.

After 1 over, DC 8/0 (Shaw 6, Dhawan 2): Seems like hitting the deck hard is the early idea for KKR. The fielder in the placed perfectly for a single each for Shaw and Dhawan. The young opener hits the first boundary the moment Cummins goes fuller. A brilliant lofted shot down the ground for four.

7.30 pm: Pat Cummins has the ball in his hand. Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw in the middle... let the madness begin in Sharjah.

7.29 pm: Here’s how the table looks like before the start of this match.

7.15 pm: RCB have defeated RR by 8 wickets with 5 balls to spare. Virat Kohli remains not-out on 72 off 53 as his team registers its third win of the season. Follow live.

7.09 pm: Playing XIs –
Delhi Capitals: Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rishabh Pant (w), Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Amit Mishra, Harshal Patel.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik (w/c), Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Sunil Narine, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy.

7.02 pm: TOSS – Dinesh Karthik has won the toss and KKR will BOWL first. Kolkata Knight Riders have replaced Kuldeep Yadav with Rahul Tripathi.
DC have two changes: R Ashwin is back and Axar Patel misses out, and Harshal Patel takes Ishant Sharma’s place.

6.52 pm: KKR registered their second successive win when they beat RR in their last game. It was achieved on the back of fine performances from Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill and Kamlesh Nagarkoti. Read all about it here:

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6.49 pm: Before we look forward to tonight’s game, here’s a look at Sunrisers Hyderabad’s impressive win over Chennai Super Kings last night:

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6.46 pm: RCB are chasing 155 against RR in today’s first match. You can follow live updates here.

6.40 pm: Hello everyone and welcome to live coverage of match No 16 of the 2020 Indian Premier League. Tonight, Delhi Capitals take on Kolkata Knight Riders at Sharjah.

Sharjah, as many expected, has been a paradise for big-hitters so far in the Indian Premier League. Sixes have been aplenty, 200-plus score has been the norm and bowlers have found it tough.

That could only be reiterated when two sides boasting of brilliant strokemakers meet at the venue on Saturday in the second match of the tournament’s first double-header.

Andre Russell’s power will be Kolkata Knight Riders’ main weapon while Delhi Capitals will hope for a trademark fearless approach from Rishabh Pant when DC take on KKR with an aim to light up the Sharjah skyline in what promises to be another six-hitting IPL contest on Saturday.