New Delhi, Sports Desk. Delhi Capitals’ dream of playing in the playoffs in IPL 2023 once again remained unfulfilled. Punjab Kings showed the way out of the 16th season of the Indian Premier League by defeating Delhi in a one-sided match. The Delhi team at one stage was going fast towards the target, but the spinners of Punjab completely turned the game in two overs.
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Punjab Kicked Out Delhi Capitals
Batting first, Punjab Kings put 167 runs on the score board after losing 7 wickets. For the team, Prabhsimran Singh played a brilliant inning of 103 runs while scoring a century. In response to the target of 168 runs from Punjab, the Delhi team could only manage 136 runs after losing 8 wickets. However, Delhi Capitals were given a stormy start by the pair of David Warner and Phil Salt and added 69 runs for the first wicket. After this began the collapse of the Delhi Capitals batting order. Salt and Mitchell Marsh returned to the pavilion within 5 runs.
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Deadly Bowling by Harpreet Brar
Harpreet Brar, who came to bowl the 9th over of the innings. Overturned the entire story of the match in his six balls. Harpreet showed Riley Rossouw the way to the pavilion on the first ball of the over. Then set batsman David Warner walked on the last ball. Due to two consecutive big shocks, Delhi’s innings could not even recover that Rahul Chahar also sent Akshar Patel to the pavilion.
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After this, Harpreet Barrar, who returned in his next over. Again showed the magic of his spin and Manish Pandey, who came on the field as an impact player. Was shown the way to the pavilion without opening the account. As soon as Manish was dismissed, Delhi Capitals’ hopes of victory also ended. Harpreet spent just 30 runs in his four-over spell and took four big wickets. And turned the whole story of the match upside down.