Pant's bat could not do wonders, South Delhi defeated Old Delhi to register the first win in history
Delhi Premier League First Win: South Delhi Super Stars have registered their first win of the Delhi Premier League by defeating Old Delhi 6.
In the first game of the Delhi Premier League T20, South Delhi Superstars defeated Old Delhi by three wickets at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.
Old Delhi 6 scored 197/3 in 20 overs with the support of Arpit Rana, after which South Delhi Superstars easily chased the target in 19.1 overs. In the match, everyone was keeping an eye out for the captain of Delhi Capitals, though he didn't do something special and scored 35 runs in 32 balls.
The chase of 198 runs by South Delhi Superstars kicked off in right earnest as they were 73 for no loss on the board with imaginative batting by their openers, Priyansh Arya and Sarthak Ray. Ray departed to a catch and bowled by Shivam Sharma in the seventh over after scoring 41 off 26 deliveries, whereas Arya got to his 50 in the 12th over in 27 balls. Captain Ayush Badoni smashed four back-to-back sixes of Ankit Bhadana in the same over and accelerated the team's score to 140/1. In the next over, he got tooved when wicketkeeper Arpit Rana easily accepted the catch behind the stumps off Sharma's ball. He made 57 runs from 30 balls with the help of three fours and four sixes in his inning.