IPL 2020: Cricket fraternity lauds DC’s effort as Iyer-Shaw-Pant help them to 228/4 against KKR

DC made their second highest total in IPL.

By Jatin Sharma - 03 Oct, 2020

Prithvi Shaw made a quick-fire 66 | IANS The 16^th match of the IPL 2020 saw Delhi Capitals (DC) take on Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at Sharjah in a mouth-watering clash. DC was asked to bat first after KKR captain Dinesh Karthik won the toss.

DC brought in Harshal Patel for Ishant Sharma and R Ashwin replaced Akshar Patel; while KKR benched Kuldeep Yadav to bring in Rahul Tripathi.

Shikhar Dhawan (26) and Prithvi Shaw (66) added 56 runs in 6 overs. Then Rishabh Pant hit 38 in 17 balls to give the DC innings impetus, but the best knock came from captain Shreyas Iyer himself as he hit 88* in 38 balls with 6 sixes and 7 fours to his name.

Delhi Capitals ended up making 228/4 in 20 overs. Andre Russell gave just 29 runs in his 4 overs and picked two wickets.

The Cricket fraternity lauded the Delhi innings and praised their batsmen for taking the team to such a huge total on Twitter.

Here are the tweets:

.@ShreyasIyer15 Tremendous striking!

Enjoyed watching.#DCvKKR #IPL2020
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) October 3, 2020

Youngistaan is on fire ???????? #PrithviShaw @DelhiCapitals @IPL #DCvsKKR #IPL2020
— Vinay Kumar R (@Vinay_Kumar_R) October 3, 2020

Sharjah..... yet again big total on board 228 @DelhiCapitals superb batting @ShreyasIyer15 and @PrithviShaw @RishabhPant17 can they defend ? Lot will depend on #russ
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) October 3, 2020

229 on any wicket is a monumental target to chase in #T20! It has been an exhibition of 4's and 6's from the @DelhiCapitals batsmen! @ShreyasIyer15 played a brilliant knock & now @KKRiders needs to bat incredibly well to win it from here against a quality bowling side!#IPL2020
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj) October 3, 2020

.@ShreyasIyer15 will be the next finisher for any team that he plays for. Cool as cucumber! #GutFeeling! #ProGyaan #KKRvsDC #IPL2020 #shreyasiyer
— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha) October 3, 2020

That was a pure class session of batting by @ShreyasIyer15, desereved a 100! some of his shots were just unbelievable! Brilliant batting by everyone in @DelhiCapitals , just don't get why you would want to bowl first at Sharjah!exciting game on our hands! #DCvsKKR #IPL2020
— Kris Srikkanth (@KrisSrikkanth) October 3, 2020

#DelhiCapitals have hit 14 sixes in scoring 228. #KKR should match if not exceed this number whether they win or not
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) October 3, 2020

Is 228 a winning score or not on that ground folks? Asking for a friend!
— Ian bishop (@irbishi) October 3, 2020

IPL 2020: Cricket fraternity lauds DC’s effort as Iyer-Shaw-Pant help them to 228/4 against KKR

DC made their second highest total in IPL.

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