Sameer Rizvi and David Miller guided the Delhi Capitals to a six-wicket IPL win against the Mumbai Indians on Saturday.
Chasing 163 for victory, Delhi rode on Rizvi’s 51-ball 90 laced with seven fours and seven sixes to achieve the target with 11 balls to spare at their home Arun Jaitley Stadium.
It was the 22-year-old’s third successive half-century in the T20 tournament after his unbeaten 70 in the opener and a fifty to close last year’s IPL.
Delhi, led by Axar Patel, took top spot in the 10-team IPL table to edge out the Punjab Kings, who also have two wins in two matches.
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Delhi slipped to 7-2, including opener KL Rahul out for one, before Sri Lanka’s Pathum Nissanka, who made 44, put on a 66-run stand with the swashbuckling Rizvi.
Nissanka departed in the 10th over but Rizvi, who came in as impact substitute in the chase, stood firm and put on another key stand of 78 with Miller, who hit the winning four in his unbeaten 21.
Style in abundance 👏
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Rizvi departed in the 17th over, denied a century by Proteas pace bowler Corbin Bosch, with the batsman walking back to a thunderous applause from the home crowd.
Five-time winners Mumbai, who were without captain Hardik Pandya who was ill, lost the toss and were put into bat, posting 162-6 with stand-in-skipper Suryakumar Yadav top-scoring with 51.
Delhi’s medium-pace bowler Mukesh Kumar did the early damage with his twin strikes in one over including opener Ryan Rickelton for nine and Tilak Varma for a duck.
Clearing the ropes with ease 👌
🎥 Delightful maximums from Rohit Sharma and Surya Kumar Yadav 🔥
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Rohit Sharma made 35 but it was India’s T20 World Cup-winning captain Suryakumar and Naman Dhir (28) who enabled Mumbai to post a decent total.
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