Abu Dhabi: Nicholas Pooran’s quickfire fifty helped Kings XI Punjab to beat Delhi Capitals by five wickets with one over to spare in Dream 11 IPL 2020 at Dubai International cricket stadium. Earlier Shikhar Dhawan scored another hundred today. But it went in vain.
A happy Kings XI skipper Rahul, said, ‘ Specially when you play with 6 batters and one all-rounder. One of the top four had to do the job. One thing that we need to look at. Shami was coming in after some confidence from the last game. Arshdeep bowled two overs in the powerplay and one over at the death. And he nailed 6 yorkers. Glenn has been batting well in the nets. He is a great team man and we know the balance he brings to the table.’
‘The talk before the last couple of games was to beat two teams were at the top of the points table. I couldn’t sleep after the last game. We could have finished it before and not allowed it to go into the super over. The game reminds us to stay humble. We would want to take the momentum forward and take it one game at a time.’
On his part, Man of the Match, Dhawan, said, ‘Today, it happened that way (that no one could stick around with me). I took the responibility of holding one end up and was also hitting the boundaries when I got the chance. On my Test debut I remember I was scoring this frequently. I took proper rest and was fresh for this match. I didn’t know ( when asked if he knew that he was the first man in IPL to score back-to-back tons). We gonna have a discussion and see where we can improve. We have been playing very good quite consistently. This is not going to put us down. We would try to come back stronger.’