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2nd over: Daredevils 10-1 (Agarwal 7, Duminy 0) Seam at both ends: Aaron from this one. Agarwal thinks about a run that’s never on and Duminy is in trouble having come a long way down the track. Kohli’s throw misses though. Runs next ball though as Agarwal gets a thick inside edge that sees the ball skating along this fast outfield and through square-leg for four. Four more runs from the rest of the over, two in singles, one leg-bye and one wide.
1st over: Daredevils 2-1 (Agarwal 1, Duminy 0) It’s the opener who hasn’t really impressed me yet, Mayank Agarwal, on strike to begin with and he’s beaten all ends up by the second delivery. It swung back in from a fraction outside off, whizzed past the batsman’s nibble and flew over off-stump. A play and miss next, then Agarwal shovels him down to deep backward point for a single. Shreyas Iyer, the man at the top of the, er, all-important six-hitting table, takes strike and Karthik does well to take a wide that swings down the leg side. Starc adjusts his line a fraction and that’s all it needs to get him man. The captain, JP Duminy is at three. Looking at the replay I think Iyer might have been harshly done by, actually. It might have been swinging down leg.
This is a beauty of a ball, an inswinging yorker that crunches into the batsman’s boot dead in front.
Here we go. Iyer and Agarwal to open for the Daredevils, as per. Starc the bowler.
That change means that RCB are opting for an extra seamer. Haven’t seen the pitch yet, but Mark Butcher reported earlier that the green tinge is something of a red herring. It’s apparently just covering up a lot of cracks and there’s nothing to spring the ball back up.
Delhi Daredevils: Agarwal, SS Iyer, JP Duminy*, AD Mathews, Yuvraj Singh, KM Jadhav†, NM Coulter-Nile, A Mishra, S Nadeem, Imran Tahir, DJ Muthuswami
Virat Kohli, and by proxy RCB, have won it and will have a bowl.
Incidentally, in rubbish, unfashionable, boring, mediocre, County Championship Division Two, one man and his dog are watching Kumar Sangakkara and Kevin Pietersen bat together at The Oval.
Good news dept.: It’s not raining, thank god.
Afternoon/evening, folks. Let’s try that again, shall we? It’s fourth v sixth today, two teams who have hit form only sporadically. That might not be the most invigorating of intros, but it means that the two sides do have a fair bit to play for. Both will be keen to build upon a victory last time out in order to find that most elusive of T20 concepts: consistency.
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