Shikhar Dhawan hit his third half-century of IPL 2021   BCCI/IPL Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Print Delhi Capitals  167 for 3 (Dhawan 69*, Shaw 39) beat  Punjab Kings  166 for 6 (Agarwal 99*, Rabada 3-36) by seven wickets On his IPL captaincy debut, Mayank Agarwal scored 60% of Punjab Kings' runs in fewer than half the balls but his unbeaten 99 was not enough to push his side to a total that would challenge Delhi Capitals in the chase. Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan broke the back of the chase in the Powerplay, and Dhawan went on to seal the win, reclaiming the orange cap as he did so. A sixth win in eight matches took capitals to the top of the table. Replacing KL Rahul, who had to be pulled out because of appendicitis, Agarwal found himself in a Rahul-like predicament. Losing wickets at the other end added extra slowness to his apparent role of batting through the innings, but a Rahul-like finis...

  Jos Buttler celebrates his hundred   BCCI/IPL Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Print Rajasthan Royals  220 for 3 (Buttler 124, Samson 48) beat  Sunrisers Hyderabad  165 for 8 (Pandey 31, Mustafizur 3-20, Morris 3-29) by 55 runs David Warner's absence from the Sunrisers Hyderabad XI made no change to the team's performance on the field, as they lost to Rajasthan Royals by 55 runs, staying at the bottom of the IPL 2021 points table. The Sunrisers' sixth loss in seven games was set up by Jos Buttler's maiden T20 century, who pumped 11 fours and eight sixes in his 64-ball 124. That helped Rajasthan Royals post 220 for 3, with Buttler hitting his last 74 runs in only 25 balls after getting to fifty in 39 deliveries. It was the first time in Warner's career that he was dropped by the Sunrisers. His previous 20 missed games for the franchise were either due to a ban (17 games for the Newlands ball-tampering scandal) or because of internat...

  Kieron Pollard says a silent prayer after single-handedly taking Mumbai Indians home   BCCI/IPL Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Print Mumbai Indians  219 for 6 (Pollard 87*, de Kock 38, Curran 3-34) beat  Chennai Super Kings  218 for 4 (Rayudu 72*, Ali 58, du Plessis 50, Pollard 2-12) by four wickets Kieron Pollard's stunning onslaught took the Mumbai Indians to an improbable win over the Chennai Super Kings in a run-fest in Delhi. The defeat also ended the Super Kings' five-match winning streak. Chasing 219, Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock gave Mumbai a start of 71 in 7.4 overs. After that it was all Pollard, who smashed an unbeaten 87 off 34 balls. During the course of his knock, he muscled six fours and eight sixes and, with a little bit of help from Krunal and Hardik Pandya, brought it down to 16 needed from the final over. With Dhawal Kulkarni at the other end, Pollard decided he was going to face all six balls from Lungi Ngi...