Player of the Match
Player of the Match

Pratham: "I have a weird premonition that a super over is coming up... " -- Noooo, Pratham! I did two super overs during PSL 2018 and I ran out of fingernails to bite.

11.23pm The game will restart at 11.30pm. It'll be a 12-over game. The target will be 151 according to our calculators

Chirag Gupta: "Butler and Short to open.Samson and Stokes at 3 and 4. These top 4 needs to click if RR want to give themselves some chance."

11.16pm The covers are coming off slowly. It's suddenly stopped raining.

K Mamgain: "KKR played only two players - Morgan and Kallis - in a match in 2011 season. "

Rasheed Sheriff: "Has there been any IPL team to have played a match without 4 foreign players?" -- Quite a few, R. Starting off with IPL 2008, when Watson, Warne and Lehmann (!) played for Rajasthan Royals against, wait for it, Delhi Daredevils.

Taz_NY: "@Raghu: I think it is disingenuous to credit Dravid for Shaw, Pant, and Iyer. I think their respective childhood coaches should be credited for their rise. Dravid should be credited for the right mindset.. "

11.10pm Oops, it's drizzling again. Accounting for the innings break, we should be losing overs again.

Chandar: "@Sreshth, are you in any way related to Shoba Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor? (I know you are not directing this script, but you are presenting it). The drama in this soap opera is too damn high"

Jeevan: "Saw the video where Manjrekar and Deep Dasgupta debate over whether Ben Stokes is worth his price tag or not. Well today is a great chance for Stokes to prove his worth." --

Bhavya Shah: "Well taking away from the match are there any mid season transfer news???" -- That thing was just a suggestion. It never got implemented.

11.06pm The rain has stopped.

Raghu: "@supriya.. very true but hidden fact is all are products of dravid's facory"

10.57pm The players walk off, officially. The covers are on and the innings is now officially over.

Harshit: "Its pay back time for DD.. now they can give 71 runs (or more) off 6 overs target to RR. ;) " -- and Gambhir wasn't padded up in either game!

Vishal : "How can equation be 197 from 108 balls!? DD scores 196 in only 17.1 ?" -- I saw that on TV too, but pretty sure that's incorrect. We think the target will be 201 if it's a 17 over game. Hang on for updates.

Abhijit: "If the DD innnings ends here, all boundaries in the DD innings have been hit by Indian players (Shaw, Iyer, Pant, Shankar). The foreign players have not made any impact - Munro, Maxwell, Plunkett"

Supriya: "it's wonderful to see the Indian youngsters (Iyer, Pant, Shaw) taking responsibility in the DD team rather than depending on costly star imports (Maxwell)"

Dikshit Chhabra: "People living within 5-10 km, please wake up and tell how's its going over your head ;) " --- I swear. I've already started calling my friends in the capital for updates. They're busy having chai though. :(

17.1
W
Archer to Maxwell, OUT, 17.01 Yorker on middle stump, and Maxwell can't get his boot out of the way. Crashes into his toes in front of leg stump and the umpire has no hesitation. Maxwell's reviews, but starts walking to the boundary. Does he think it's out? Nope, it's raining. The players walk off as the third umpire adjudicates. He's out!

GJ Maxwell lbw b Archer 5 (5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 100

END OF OVER:
17 | 9 Runs 1 Wkt | DC: 196/5 | RR: 11.52

  • Glenn Maxwell5 (4b)
  • Liam Plunkett1 (2b)
  • Jaydev Unadkat4-0-46-3
  • Jofra Archer3-0-31-0
16.6
1
Unadkat to Maxwell, 1 run, full toss wide outside off, and Maxwell slaps this towards the off side. An excellent diving stop at point keeps it down to one
16.5
1
Unadkat to Plunkett, 1 run, slower ball, and full outside off. Plunkett shuffles across to the off side and clips it to Stokes at deep midwicket
16.4
0
Unadkat to Plunkett, no run, good length outside off, but stays a bit low. Tried to play the late cut, but missed it
16.3
3
Unadkat to Maxwell, 3 runs, full outside off, but wide enough to muscle it over cover. Not hit well but played in the gap. Short and Tripathi combine near wide long off to intercept
16.2
W
Unadkat to Shankar, OUT, Tripathi under it! Full just outside off, and Shankar goes for another biggie. This time it's off the toe end of the bat and long off was manning the boundary. Seventeen off six in a innings run-rate of 11.69. An excellent cameo

V Shankar c Tripathi b Unadkat 17 (6b 2x4 1x6) SR: 283.33

16.1
4
Unadkat to Shankar, FOUR, full on middle stump, and Shankar makes full use of the angle! Uses his wrists to whip it over fine leg

around the wicket

END OF OVER:
16 | 15 Runs | DC: 187/4 | RR: 11.68

  • Glenn Maxwell1 (2b)
  • Vijay Shankar13 (4b)
  • Jofra Archer3-0-31-0
  • Jaydev Unadkat3-0-37-2
15.6
0
Archer to Maxwell, no run, yorker! On leg stump, and Maxwell does well to get his toes out of the way and block it
15.5
1
Archer to Shankar, 1 run, full just outside off, and that's been lifted over the bowler's head. Man at long on though

RR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st82DJM ShortJC Buttler
2nd10DJM ShortSV Samson
3rd8DJM ShortBA Stokes
4th18DJM ShortRA Tripathi
5th23K GowthamRA Tripathi
6th5K GowthamJC Archer