QUINTON DE KOCK ACES CHASE AFTER RAVI BISHNOI THROTTLES CAPITALS
0Quinton de Kock aces chase after Ravi Bishnoi throttles Capitals
Did Rishabh Pant err in not bowling his spinners enough? Lucknow Super Giants 155 for 4 (de Kock 80. Kuldeep 2 31) beat Delhi Capitals 149 for 3 (Shaw 61. Pant 39. Sarfaraz 36. Bishnoi 2 22) by six wickets The Lucknow Super Giants spinners stifled Delhi Capitals. and their death bowlers maintained the chokehold to restrict them to the third lowest 20 over total for the loss of three wickets or fewer in the IPL: 149. With dew around. it became an easy target to chase. but even LSG stumbled in the end and finished the chase only in the last over despite a 52 ball 80 from Quinton de Kock. It was a remarkable comeback from LSG after Prithvi Shaw ran away to 61 off 34 balls. However. the other Capitals batters David Warner and Rishabh pant among them couldn't manage even a run a ball between them. It wasn't for the want of trying: they all tried to hit out. but Ravi Bishnoi. K Gowtham and Krunal Pandya tied them down before Jason Holder and Avesh Khan finished off with just 19 runs in the last three overs. the second lowest aggregate for an IPL side who had top six batters at the wicket. Delhi Capitals have been fined for maintaining a slow over rate during the match against Lucknow Super Giants on Thursday. Since it was the team's first offence of the season under the IPL's code of conduct. captain Rishabh Pant was fined INR 12 lakhs. Between them the LSG spinners bowled 10 overs for 57 runs and took all three wickets to fall. Gowtham also bowled the first maiden Pant has faced in the IPL. Shaw welcomes back Warner This was a homecoming of sorts for Warner to the team he made his IPL debut for. Shaw was there to make him feel at home. giving him a right hand impression of the batter he used to be before he began to set himself up for the long innings. The LSG fast bowlers tried to bowl hard lengths at Shaw. but kept getting cut or pulled. He alone scored 47 in the powerplay. letting Warner ease his way back in. Against the spinners Shaw remained aggressive and effective. going over cover with ease and punishing any error in length. In the eighth over. he stepped out to Gowtham to hit him for a straight six before going over cover for four. Shaw gone. choke on Gowtham responded by moving round the wicket and pushing one across Shaw. Shaw saw a third boundary in a row and went for the cut. but the angle and some extra bounce defeated him to take the top edge. Capitals then made a curious move to promote Rovman Powell to No. 3. Before today. Powell had struck at 150 against pace and 116 against spin. He was now being exposed to spin on a surface with grip. Bishnoi and Gowtham now sucked the life out of the innings. Warner went cutting a wide ball. which kept getting away from him. and managed just a top edge. the third time he has got out to Bishnoi in six balls. A desperate Powell saw a full ball and went for the slog. but it turned out to be the wrong'un. which took out off stump. Gowtham then proceeded to cramp Pant and bowl a maiden. When Sarfaraz Khan reverse swept the last ball of the 11th over. it was the first boundary by a batter not named Shaw. Pant's struggles More than Warner or Powell. Pant's struggle was stark. He managed just eight off the first 19 balls he faced. surviving a run out chance in the process. It was with the last ball of the 15th over that he finally broke free. lofting a Bishnoi wrong'un over extra cover. When Andrew Tye offered him a full toss and two slot balls in the 16th. Pant finally went past a run a ball with a four and two sixes. Sarfaraz got stuck into Avesh in the 17th over. making it 130 for 3 and raising hopes for Capitals. Holder's mix of cutters and yorkers. though. completely shut Pant and Sarfaraz out. He bowled the 18th and the 20th. but conceded no boundary. Avesh made a stellar comeback in the 19th. conceding just the one four. This 36 ball 39 was Pant's third slowest innings of 30 balls or more. To make matters worse. the bowlers were wiping the ball with a towel every...
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