LIVE SCORES | DD vs GL | IPL 2016 | FEROZESHAH KOTLA




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DELHI DAREDEVILS INNINGS

  • Bravo to Morris. TWO. Gujarat Lions win the match by 1 run.

  • Bravo to Morris. TWO.

  • Bravo to Morris. TWO.

  • Bravo to Negi. ONE.

  • Bravo to Morris. ONE.

  • Bravo to Morris. FOUR!



  • 19 overs: Brilliant over by Praveen Kumar. Just 4 runs off it. Delhi Daredevils 159/5 (14 runs required from 6 balls).



  • 18 overs: Despite Duminy falling on the first ball, 11 runs came off the over. Morris is in such a good form today. Delhi Daredevils 155/5 (18 runs required from 12 balls). 



  • 17.1 overs: WICKET! Duminy is out. That was not needed from Duminy. He played a matured knock so far. Bravo provides the big wicket. JP Duminy c & b Bravo 48 (43b 3x4 1x6).



  • 17 overs: Big over for Daredevils. Morris smashed Smith for three consecutive SIXES in the over to collect 21 runs off it. Delhi Daredevils 144/4 (29 runs required from 18 balls). Duminy 48 (42b 3x4 1x6), Morris 59 (19b 1x4 8x6), Smith 2-0-26-0, Kulkarni 4-1-19-3.



  • 50 up for Chris Morris in just 17 balls.



  • 16 overs: Raina brought Kulkarni into attack to stem the flow of runs. He did well but Daredevils should be happy to get 7 runs off the over. Delhi Daredevils 123/4 (50 runs required from 24 balls). Morris 40 (15b 1x4 5x6), Duminy 46 (40b 3x4 1x6), Kulkarni 4-1-19-3, Tambe 1-0-17-0.



  • 15 overs: Chris Morris is playing a really amazing knock today. He has provided what Daredevils missed at the beginning of the innings. Delhi Daredevils 116/4 (57 runs required from 30 balls). Morris 35 (13b 0x4 5x6), Duminy 44 (36b 3x4 1x6), Tambe 1-0-17-0, Bravo 2-0-17-0.



  • 10.4 overs: WICKET! Rishabh Pant was impressive in his short innings. Faulkner strikes in first over of the match. Top catch by Praveen Kumar. Rishabh Pant c Kumar b Faulkner 20 (17b 2x4 0x6).



  • STRATEGIC TIME OUT! After 9 overs, Delhi Daredevils 43/3 (130 runs required from 11 overs).



  • 6 overs: Powerplay is over. Just like batting, Gujarat Lions have taken a big advantage over Delhi Daredevils in bowling as well. Delhi Daredevils 22/3 (151 runs required from 14 overs).



  • 5 overs: Delhi Daredevils 19/3 (154 runs required from 15 overs).



  • 3.6 overs: WICKET! What's happening here. Kulkarni has another wicket. Karun Nair hit a four on the previous ball. A crisis for Delhi Daredevils. Karun Nair c Tambe b Kulkarni 9 (7b 1x4 0x6).



  • 3.4 overs: WICKET! Kulkarni strikes again. This time he has got Quinton de Kock. This is probably the game-changing wicket. Quinton de Kock c Raina b Kulkarni 5 (11b 1x4 0x6).



  • 1.3 overs: WICKET! Dhawal Kulkarni dismisses Sanju Samson. Early blow to Daredevils. Samson was Daredevil's top-scorer in the previous match. Sanju Samson c Faulkner b Kulkarni 1 (6b 0x4 0x6).



  • Quinton de Kock and Sanju Samson to open for Delhi Daredevils. Praveen Kumar has the ball.


 

GUJARAT LIONS INNINGS

  • 20 overs: Delhi Daredevils have restricted Gujarat Lions to 172 for 6 after an explosive start provided by McCullum and Smith propelled them to 100 in just 9 overs. Great comeback by Delhi.



  • 16.5 overs: WICKET! Two in two for Tahir. Dinesh Karthik becomes his third victim. Dinesh Karthik c Duminy b Imran Tahir 19 (17b 1x4 1x6).



  • 16.4 overs: WICKET! India's Under-19 captain Ishan Kishan was sent ahead of Dwayne Bravo but he could not encash the chance. Tahir has his second wicket. Ishan Kishan c Duminy b Imran Tahir 2 (6b 0x4 0x6).



  • After 15 overs, Gujarat Lions 132/4.



  • 14.3 overs: WICKET! Duminy bowled his first over this season and he provided a wicket. Ravindra Jadeja goes back. Daredevils are making a good comeback in the match. Ravindra Jadeja c de Kock b Duminy 4 (7b 0x4 0x6).



  • 11.6 overs: WICKET! Great bowling that is. Morris has dismissed Suresh Raina too. He planned it well. Brought fine-leg in and bowled short to exploit Raina's short-ball problem. Suresh Raina c Nair b Morris 2 (5b 0x4 0x6).



  • 11. 2 overs: WICKET! Bowled him. Morris removes McCullum. The dangerous duo is back in the pavilion now. Brendon McCullum b Morris 60 (36b 6x4 3x6).



  • 10.4 overs: WICKET! Finally. Imran Tahir breaks the dangerous partnership, dismisses Dwayne Smith. Big relief for Delhi Daredevils. Dwayne Smith lbw b Imran Tahir 53 (30b 5x4 3x6).



  • 10 overs: McCullum and Smith have provided an amazing platform to Gujarat Lions. They have murdered the Daredevils bowlers, so to say. Gujarat Lions 110/0. Smith 52 (27b 5x4 3x6), McCullum 57 (33b 6x4 3x6), Mishra 2-0-19-0, Tahir 1-0-8-0.



  • 100 runs up for Gujarat Lions in just 9 overs.



  • 50 up for McCullum in just 27 balls. This is fastest fifty for Gujarat Lions. He beat Aaron Finch's 32-ball fifty KXIP.



  • 6 overs: Gujarat Lions are off to a flying start. Smith and McCullum have literally thrashed Delhi Daredevils bowlers. Zaheer must be thinking why did he choose to bowl first. Gujarat Lions 71/0. McCullum 30 (16b 1x4 3x6), Smith 41 (20b 5x4 2x6), Zaheer 3-0-40-0, Morris 1-0-12-0.



  • 50 up for Gujarat Lions in just 3.5 overs. It is the quickest team fifty this season.



  • 1 over: OMG! That was a super expensive over to start the innings. Zaheer bowled superbly but the field placement was so horribly wrong that three FOURs leaked behind the stumps. 18 runs off it. Gujarat Lions 18/0.



  • Let's roll this. Zaheer Khan has the ball. Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum are ready with their guards properly marked. They are the most explosive opening partners in this IPL.



  • India's Under-19 cricketer Rishabh Pant is making his IPL debut today


 

PLAYING XIs

Delhi Daredevils: Q de Kock, SV Samson, KK Nair, RR Pant, JP Duminy, P Negi, CH Morris, A Mishra, Z Khan, S Nadeem, Imran Tahir.

Gujarat Lions: DR Smith, BB McCullum, SK Raina, KD Karthik, DJ Bravo, Ishan Kishan, RA Jadeja, JP Faulkner, P Kumar, DS Kulkarni, PV Tambe.

  • This is how the pitch looks like:







  • Both the teams have made two changes each. James Faulkner and Ishan Kishan replace the injured Aaron Finch and Shadab Jakati in Gujarat Lions team. For Delhi Daredevils, Shahbaz Nadeem and Rishabh Pant replace Mohammed Shami and Shreyas Iyer.

  • Toss time.... Delhi Daredevils win toss, opt to bowl first against Gujarat Lions.



  • We are minutes away from the toss....


HEAD TO HEAD



SQUADS

Delhi Daredevils: Zaheer Khan (C), Quinton de Kock, JP Duminy, Mayank Agarwal, Shreyas Iyer, Carlos Brathwaite, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Pawan Suyal, Jayant Yadav, Chris Morris, Sam Billings, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Imran Tahir, Mahipal Lomor, Chama Milind, Amit Mishra, Mohammed Shami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Khaleel Ahmed, Akhil Herwadkar, Pratyush Singh.

Gujarat Lions: Suresh Raina (C), Amit Mishra, Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Smith, Dale Styne, Pravin Tambe, Shadab Jakati, Dinesh Karthik, Dhaval Kulkarni, Praveen Kumar, Brandon McCullum, Pradeep Sangwan, Sarabjit Ladda, Akshdeep Nath, Jaydev Shah, Ishan Kishan, Paras Dogra, Eklavya Dwivedi, Shivil Kaushik, Umang Sharma and Andrew Tye.



PREVIEW

It will be a test of character and battle for supremacy when Delhi Daredevils and Gujarat Lions, two of the most impressive teams of IPL 9, lock horns against each other at the Feroze Shah Kotla ground.

Barring one bad day in office, both Daredevils and Gujarat Lions had a near perfect campaign so far in the tournament.

While new outfit Gujarat Lions are lying in the second spot in the eight-team standings with eight points from five matches, the Daredevils are a place below in the third position with six points from four games.

After the loss to Kolkata Knight Riders by nine wickets in their tournament opener, the Daredevils bounced back strongly riding on collective efforts to comfortably beat Kings XI Punjab, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians in their next three games to surge ahead in the points table.

Gujarat Lions too had a dream debut in their opening IPL season, having won three consecutive games -- against Kings XI Punjab, Rising Pune Supergiants and Mumbai Indians – before slumping to their only loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Suresh Raina-led side, however, came back strongly to get the better of a star-studded Royal Challengers Bangalore in their last game.

And both Daredevils and Gujarat Lions will be desperate to upstage each other to prove their supremacy.

After the flop show in their opening match, Daredevils batting came to the party in the last two games against RCB and Mumbai Indians. In the first match against Kolkata Knight Riders, the Daredevils got all-out for 98 and then went untested in the second game as the target was a meagre 112.

In the game against RCB, South African Quinton de Kock struck the first century of IPL 9 scoring 108 off just 51 deliveries to guide Daredevils to a seven wicket win while chasing an imposing 192-run target.

Against defending champions Mumbai Indians, it was the turn of young Sanju Samson (60) and JP Duminy (49 not out) who rose to the occasion to take the Zaheer Khan led side to 164 for four, a total which they defended to win by 10 runs.

Daredevils coach Rahul Dravid would be happy with the fact that besides De Kock, other batsmen in Karun Nair, Samson, Duminy also returned among runs.

Carlos Brathwaite, who became the toast of the cricketing world after hitting England's Ben Stokes for four consecutive sixes to win the ICC World T20 final for the West Indies, is again likely to sit out as Daredevils are not expected to tinker their winning combination much.

On the bowling front, Daredevils have experience with captain Zaheer leading the pack and showing that there is still plenty left in his armoury. Both Zaheer and Chris Morris have been immaculate at the death overs against Mumbai Indians, but it is the form of fit-again Mohammad Shami which would be a cause of concern for the side.

If Zaheer and Morris were impressive at the death against Mumbai Indians, it is Amit Mishra, regarded as India's best leg-spinner currently, and South African Imran Tahir who set the platform for the win with their brilliant spell in the middle overs.

On the other hand, Gujarat Lions' has been a fairytale story so far in the tournament. The debutants started their maiden journey with impressive performance in first three games, but suffered a loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad before getting their campaign back on tract with a win over RCB in their last game.

The Lions would be eyeing another win which will enable them to upstage Kolkata Knight Riders from top of the points table.

The Lions batting revolves around Dwayne Smith, Aaron Finch and Brendon McCullum, followed by the likes of Raina, Dwayne Bravo and Dinesh Karthik.

McCullum is yet to show his full potential, even as Finch had struck three back-to-back half centuries in first three games, failing only against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

With the Lions opening pair of Finch and McCullum clicking just once in four matches so far, it prompted the team management to rope in Smith in the last game against RCB, dropping Finch down the order.

The move worked as McCullum and Smith (32) stitched a quickfire 47 runs for the opening stand to set the stage for the 181-run chase and they are expected to persist with the same combination.

Dinesh Karthik too came to the party in the last game, scoring a 39-ball unbeaten 50 while McCullum smashed 42 off just 24 deliveries.

The two all-rounders in Bravo and Ravindra Jadeja are also expected to come in handy.

But it is the team's bowling department which looks little weak as James Faulkner and Praveen Kumar are yet to sparkle.