Buttler, Jaiswal and Boult fashion Rajasthan Royals’ clinical victory
The Hindu
Rajasthan Royals pulls off a clinical all-round performance as it beat Delhi Capitals by 57 runs
Rajasthan Royals pulled off a clinical all-round performance as it beat Delhi Capitals by 57 runs to bounce back to winning ways in the IPL at the Barsapara Stadium here on Saturday.
Capitals were outplayed for most of the game as they fell to a third straight defeat while Royals wound up their ‘home run’ with a win.
Royals’ win was set up by a solid batting performance led by openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (60) and Jos Buttler (79), and backed up by a fiery Trent Boult and later on by spin twins R. Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal.
Boult struck twice in the first over — for a record-extending fourth time in the IPL — to rock Capitals’ chase, which failed to kick on, mostly because of a slow-paced fifty from skipper David Warner.
After being sent in, Jaiswal and Buttler began in top gear, with the former smashing Khaleel Ahmed for five boundaries to gather 20 runs in the first over.
Jaiswal dominated the partnership as he raced to his fifty in 25 balls. The opening duo dealt mostly in boundaries as Royals gathered 68 runs in the PowerPlay.
The left-hander’s entertaining knock came to an end when he could only fend a Mukesh Kumar bouncer back to the bowler.
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.