Delhi survive Marsh blitz in IPL

Kings XI Punjab batsman Shaun Marsh plays a shot during their IPL Twenty20 compare opposite Delhi Daredevils during a Feroz Shah Kotla track in New Delhi. Marsh crushed 95 off only 46 balls, though unsuccessful to stop Delhi Daredevils from posting a 29-run win.
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – Kings XI Punjab’s Shaun Marsh crushed 95 off only 46 balls, though unsuccessful to stop Delhi Daredevils from posting a 29-run win in an Indian Premier League compare upon Saturday.

The Australian strike 6 sixes as well as 9 fours as Delhi stopped Punjab during 202-6 after scoring 231-4 — a top sum of this year’s contest — for their second feat in 5 matches.

Punjab’s hopes of achieving a unbending aim in a tall-scoring diversion receded after a exclusion of Marsh, held by skipper Virender Sehwag off South African paceman Morne Morkel in a 18th over.

Marsh combined 72 for a second wicket with skipper Adam Gilchrist, who strike 4 unbroken fours off seamer Ajit Agarkar during his 33-ball 42. It was Punjab’s second better in 5 games of a Twenty20 tournament.

Delhi were progressing gladdened to Australian David Warner as well as Sehwag for environment a severe target, with any scoring 77.

Sehwag, but a half-century in a prior 4 games, returned to form with a 35-ball strike that contained 4 sixes as well as 8 fours whilst Warner strike 7 bounds as well as 4 sixes in his 48-ball knock.

Hosts Delhi done a fantastic begin as Sehwag as well as Warner plundered 146 off 11.4 overs, most to a pleasure of a sizeable throng during a Ferozeshah Kotla ground. It was a top opening-wicket mount of a ongoing tournament.

Sehwag once punished Australian spinner David Hussey, attack 3 unbroken sixes prior to being held in a low whilst attempting an additional large shot off a subsequent delivery.

Warner suited his partner shot for shot, reaching his half-century with a 6 over mid-wicket off seamer Paul Valthaty. Venugopal Rao afterwards helped Delhi cranky a 200-mark with a 15-ball twenty-eight not out.

Brief scores:

Delhi Daredevils 231-4 in twenty overs (V. Sehwag 77, D. Warner 77. V. Rao twenty-eight not out) kick Kings XI Punjab 202-6 in twenty overs (S. Marsh 95, A. Gilchrist 42, D. Hussey 20; A. Agarkar 2-48) by twenty-nine runs.