Match Report
Rajasthan Royals on Saturday pulled off a scientific all-round efficiency to beat Delhi Capitals by 57 runs on the Barsapara Stadium in Guwahati.
The Capitals, principally outplayed throughout all departments through the course of the sport, have now misplaced all of their three video games.
The Royals win, arrange by a stable batting efficiency led by openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (60, 31b; 11×4, 1×6) and Jos Buttler (79, 51b; 11×4, 1×6), was complemented effectively by the bowling division too. A fiery Trent Boult (4-1-29-3) and spin twins, Ravichandran Ashwin (4-0-25-2) and Yuzvendra Chahal (4-0-27-3), did many of the harm.
After being despatched out to bat, Jaiswal and Buttler started in prime gear, with the previous smashing left-arm seamer Khaleel Ahmed for 5 fours within the very first over.
Buttler, who needed to get a number of stitches to his little finger owing to an harm, was uncertain to make an look. However, not solely did he make the ultimate eleven, he appeared keen to hold on the nice present within the ongoing season, hammering three boundaries off pacer Anrich Nortje within the second over.
The English white-ball captain supplied the Capitals a glimmer of hope when he skied one early on. But Nortje couldn’t maintain on to the powerful probability, having needed to monitor again from mid-off to get beneath the ball.
Jaiswal dominated the partnership as he raced to his fifty in 25 balls. The first six of the sport got here within the eighth over after 17 fours, when the left-handed Jaiswal carted spinner Kuldeep Yadav over long-off.
Jaiswal’s entertaining knock got here to an finish when he miscued a Mukesh Kumar bouncer proper again to the bowler.
-Pranay Rajiv
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Source: sportstar.thehindu.com