Match 2- IPL 2020, delhi vs punjab

Viewers, what an exciting cliffanger it turned out to be between Delhi and punjab at the 2nd league match at Dubai. Let's relive how things paned out and the game changing moments 

Scintillating Stoinis sets

 up the opening match for delhi, Daring win for Daredevils.

Swinging shami strikes early

   Shami was on fire with the new ball swinging it around , with able support from cotrell ( known for his army salute celebration), removed the top order in quick succession. pant and Shreyas had to grind it out with hopes of late assault at the closing stage. At one stage, Delhi looked like settling for a score of 130 but " swashbuckling Stoinis"had other ideas.

Swashbuckling Stoinis finishes the innings with a blinder.

While Stoinis is known as a Decent All

rounder,no one would have expected

 him to play such an entertaining knock which has set IPl 2020  on fire. His 21 ball 53 was filled with flurry of boundaries and poor Jordan has to pay heavily in the final, game changing over, which went for 30, runs. Stoinis ensured Delhi had a fighting total to play with.

Sedate start for punjab, Ashwin double strike.

 Punjab got off to a sedate start withth the skipper KL could not get going against Rabada and Nortje, who was clocking in the 140's troubling the openers with pace.  It was looking like a India vs south africa test match at wanderers where the likely openers Rahul and Mayank were at sea against these bowlers, brilliant pick by Delhi to have them in their armory.

While Rahul got cleaned up by mo, it was ashwin double strike in his first over which had kings completely on the back foot. It was unfortunate to see ash getting injured and fingers crossed if this will rule him out for few matches. 

Magnificent Mayank almost seal the match for 

punjab

While Mayank was slow to start off, he found his touch and timing at the business end, with the run rate creeping over 10 an over. He got better and better driving through the covers, despatching it over the third man fence, and hitting straight sixes at will, even taking on Rabada by scoring 13 runs in the penultimate over. The shot of the match has to be towering straight six of Stoinis in the 1st ball of 20th over

, giving him a taste of his own medicine. 

  

All round show by Stoinis, game tied

While just 1 run needed of 3 balls, the adrenaline got the better of Mayank who holed it out to deep cover. Jordan was brilliantly snapped at square leg by Rabada and the "IPL bosses ensured we have a super over at the start of the tournament.🤔🤔🤔

Super over- poor decision making by punjab think-thank

While the sensible decision would be to send the in-form players to bat out the super over ( my take is Mayank should have gone in), Punjab errored by sending out KL and Pooran, who both didn't have a good outing.Eventually, Rahul played a poor shot and Pooran's attempted hoick towards midwicket had his stumps cartwheeling

Delhi had a simple task to do, to chase probably the lowest super over score in IPL history and it was a mere formally.