Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant felt “Disappointed” after the team lost their second game of the season played against Rajasthan Royals by 12 runs.
Rishabh Pant Feels Disappointed After Losing their Second Game
As per the IPL 2024 Schedule, Rajasthan Royals was scheduled to face Delhi Capitals on March 28 in Jaipur. Delhi were under pressure to register their first victory of the season after registering a narrow defeat against PBKS in their season’s first match.
On the other hand, Rajasthan Royals kick-started their IPL 2024 campaign with a comfortable victory against LSG.
Speaking on the game, Delhi Capitals won the toss and opted to bowl first where Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler opened the inning for Rajasthan Royals.
While the duo is expected to make a steady inning, DC’s Mukesh Kumar struck earlier and dismissed dangerous Yashasvi Jaiswal for just 5 runs. Soon after his dismissal, Jaiswal’s opening partner Jos Buttler was dismissed for 11 runs by chinaman Kuldeep Yadav.
Following the RR skipper’s dismissal for 15 runs, Ashwin promoted himself to the top and contributed 29 runs for 19 balls.
Though RR batters struggled to make an impact with their bat on one end, Riyan Parag, on the other hand, scored an unbeaten 84 runs from 45 deliveries. At the end of 20 overs, Rajasthan Royals scored 185 runs for 5 wickets loss.
On the other hand, David Warner and Mitchell Marsh opened the inning for Delhi Capitals where Nandre Burger drew the first blood by dismissing Mitchell Marsh for 23 runs. Following his dismissal, Ricky Bhui returned to the pavilion without scoring while Rishabh and Warner made a 67-run stand for the next wicket.
Delhi Capitals’ chances of registering their first victory of the season started to faint as they lost wickets at regular intervals of time. At the end of 20 overs, Delhi Capitals managed to score only 173 runs for 5 wickets and fell short of 12 runs for the victory.
Speaking on the defeat, Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant said “Definitely disappointed. Best thing we can do from this is learn from it. The bowlers did really well till 15-16 overs, batters sometimes go on at the death and score quickly, that happened in this game.
Marsh and Warner gave a good start, but we lost a few wickets in the middle overs and in the end we had too many runs to cover up. There are other options, we wanted Nortje to bowl at the death and sometimes you can go for runs, hopefully we can do better in the next match”.
Excellent final over from Avesh Khan 🔥⚡️pic.twitter.com/Ra8w16J2Ob
— Times of Sports (@timesofsports) March 28, 2024
With the defeat Delhi Capitals was pushed to the 7th position in the IPL 2024 Points Table. Delhi Capitals will play their next game of the season against table topper Chennai Super Kings on March 31 in Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.
