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Rishabh Pant steals Ajinkya Rahane's limelight as Delhi beat Rajasthan to top IPL table

ANI
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Nagar Nigam, Lalkothi, Jaipur, Rajasthan, IndiaUpdated: Apr 23, 2019, 12:22 AM IST
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Rishabh Pant plays a shot during the Indian Premier League 2019 cricket match between Rajasthan and Delhi. Photograph:(PTI)

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Rishabh Pant played an exciting and unbeaten knock of 78 runs to help his side chase 192-run target set by the hosts. 

Delhi defeated Rajasthan by six wickets at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Monday. Rishabh Pant played an exciting and unbeaten knock of 78 runs to help his side chase 192-run target set by the hosts. 

Pant smashed four sixes and six fours in his 36-ball innings as Delhi equalled defending champions Chennai's tally of 14 points to top the Indian Premier League table.

By playing a heroic knock for his franchise, wicketkeeper-batsman Pant will have made a statement after being surprisingly left out of India's Cricket World Cup squad. 

The left-hander missed a spot in the team after the selectors opted for experience over potential by picking Dinesh Karthik.

Opener Shikhar Dhawan also slammed a half-century to set the foundation of Delhi’s chase while Prithvi Shaw played a slow knock of 43 runs off 39 balls.

Put in to bat first, the hosts put up 191/6 in their 20 overs. 

Ajinkya Rahane’s unbeaten century went in vain and so did new captain Steve Smith’s half-century as Rajasthan lost a flurry of wickets towards the end.

Rahane, the Indian Test team vice-captain but who has been out of the limited-overs sides for the past year, hit three sixes and 11 fours as his unbeaten hundred came from just 63 balls.