NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals’ horrible begin to IPL 2023 lastly bought again on monitor with successive victories after 5 straight defeats and Axar Patel has been a standout performer in each Delhi’s wins.
Axar held his nerves and performed a affected person knock of 19 not out to take Delhi residence in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders after chipping with two essential wickets. On Monday, Axar once more produced an all-round effort to assist Delhi edge Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven runs in a low-scoring thriller.
The left-handed Axar (34) lifted Delhi from a precarious 62-5 to 144-9 in a gritty partnership of 69 with Manish Pandey (34) on Hyderabad’s residence turf. Axar then returned figures of 2-21 together with his left-arm spin.
Heaping reward on Axar’s constant run within the IPL, former legendary Indian participant Sunil Gavaskar believes that star all-rounder ought to be appointed captain of Delhi Capitals in IPL in the long term, saying that it’ll additionally profit the Indian cricket workforce.
“I believe Axar Patel should be appointed the captain of Delhi Capitals. He is an honest player. He’s in a good rhythm. The Indian team can benefit from him being named the captain of the franchise and performing well. All these things should be done in the long run,” Gavaskar mentioned on Star Sports Cricket Live.
During the eighth over of Delhi’s innings — Washington Sundar dismissed David Warner, Sarfaraz Khan and Aman Hakim Khan because the Capitals went from a reasonably secure place of 57/2 to 62/5. Axar then solid a 69-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Manish Pandey and helped the guests put up 144, which turned out because the profitable complete ultimately.
“I didn’t even realise what’s going on. I had just ordered coffee and I had to leave that cup of coffee as it was because I found out we had lost three wickets in one over, so I had to run and go straight in to bat,” the all-rounder mentioned on the post-match presentation.
“Once I went in to bat then I had a chance to think about what was going on. [Manish] Pandey and I were there and Pandey said that the deeper we could take it the better it is because if we have some runs we can put up a fight,” he added.
With the ball, Axar Patel together with his left-arm spin dismissed each top-scorer Mayank Agarwal in addition to captain Aiden Markram throughout SRH’s innings.
“Obviously [the pitch] was a little slow. The ball was stopping. Kuldeep [Yadav] and I have bowled in partnerships even on the Delhi wickets, so when I batted I thought that Kuldeep and I can trap the batters. So the more runs I could score the better for us. So that was the plan and the way Kuldeep and I bowled, we had fun. I keep bowling batters but getting him [Markram] with the slower ball, that I enjoyed more,” he mentioned.
The Delhi Capitals will tackle Sunrisers Hyderabad of their subsequent match on the Arun Jaitley Stadium, right here on Saturday.
(With IANS Inputs)
Axar held his nerves and performed a affected person knock of 19 not out to take Delhi residence in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders after chipping with two essential wickets. On Monday, Axar once more produced an all-round effort to assist Delhi edge Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven runs in a low-scoring thriller.
The left-handed Axar (34) lifted Delhi from a precarious 62-5 to 144-9 in a gritty partnership of 69 with Manish Pandey (34) on Hyderabad’s residence turf. Axar then returned figures of 2-21 together with his left-arm spin.
Heaping reward on Axar’s constant run within the IPL, former legendary Indian participant Sunil Gavaskar believes that star all-rounder ought to be appointed captain of Delhi Capitals in IPL in the long term, saying that it’ll additionally profit the Indian cricket workforce.
“I believe Axar Patel should be appointed the captain of Delhi Capitals. He is an honest player. He’s in a good rhythm. The Indian team can benefit from him being named the captain of the franchise and performing well. All these things should be done in the long run,” Gavaskar mentioned on Star Sports Cricket Live.
During the eighth over of Delhi’s innings — Washington Sundar dismissed David Warner, Sarfaraz Khan and Aman Hakim Khan because the Capitals went from a reasonably secure place of 57/2 to 62/5. Axar then solid a 69-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Manish Pandey and helped the guests put up 144, which turned out because the profitable complete ultimately.
“I didn’t even realise what’s going on. I had just ordered coffee and I had to leave that cup of coffee as it was because I found out we had lost three wickets in one over, so I had to run and go straight in to bat,” the all-rounder mentioned on the post-match presentation.
“Once I went in to bat then I had a chance to think about what was going on. [Manish] Pandey and I were there and Pandey said that the deeper we could take it the better it is because if we have some runs we can put up a fight,” he added.
With the ball, Axar Patel together with his left-arm spin dismissed each top-scorer Mayank Agarwal in addition to captain Aiden Markram throughout SRH’s innings.
“Obviously [the pitch] was a little slow. The ball was stopping. Kuldeep [Yadav] and I have bowled in partnerships even on the Delhi wickets, so when I batted I thought that Kuldeep and I can trap the batters. So the more runs I could score the better for us. So that was the plan and the way Kuldeep and I bowled, we had fun. I keep bowling batters but getting him [Markram] with the slower ball, that I enjoyed more,” he mentioned.
The Delhi Capitals will tackle Sunrisers Hyderabad of their subsequent match on the Arun Jaitley Stadium, right here on Saturday.
(With IANS Inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com