#3 Early loss of Samson and Pant
Delhi’s heroes from their last match, Sanju Samson and Rishabh Pant, both fell without troubling the scoreboard and this dented the home side’s hopes severely.
Delhi lost Samson (0) and Shreyas Iyer (3) in the first couple of overs and the scoreboard read 5/2. A good start was necessary to chase down such a big total and that was exactly what they did not get.
It was Samson who gave his side a good start in the previous match, smashing a quickfire half-century in their chase of a 200+ total. However, this time around, he perished off the first delivery of the innings as he gave away a simple catch to Lendl Simmons off the bowling of McClenaghan. Iyer was the next to follow on the last delivery of the second over as he gave away an easy catch to Harbhajan Singh off Lasith Malinga’s bowling.
Pant too fell soon after for a duck.
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