Sourav Ganguly Delighted After Seeing Tristan Hitting Effortless Six On Sandeep's Bowling

In yesterday’s game between Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals, the former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly was surprised after seeing effortless sixes by the South African batter Tristan Stubbs in the final over of the innings on the ball of Sandeep Sharma, which helped the Delhi Capitals team to put a total of 221 runs on the board.

After winning the toss, Rajasthan Royals decided to bowl first on the flat pitch of Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, which has short boundaries in front and square side of the wicket. Rajasthan Royals 2 changes in their playing 11 in place of Dhruv Jurel and Shimron Hetmeyer as they picked up Ferreira and Shubham Dubney after they had been declared injured before the game. Delhi Capitals made a solid start with young Australian opener Jake-Fraser McGurk, who played a sensational innings by hitting 50 runs in 20 balls, which includes 7 boundaries and 3 maximums with a strike rate of 250 plus, taking Delhi’s powerplay score to 62 runs in 4 overs.

However, Delhi was unable to capitalize on the start given by the Australian opener as they got their 4 wickets out within 90 runs on the score of 150 runs in 14 overs thanks to Tristan Stubbs and Gulbadin Naib, who made a partnership of 45 runs for the 6th wicket-taking DC to a respectable total.

Tristan Powerful Stubbs

Tristan Stubbes played a match-winning knock in the game against Rajasthan, after Delhi were 5 wickets down on the score of 150 runs he scored 41 runs in 20 balls which included 3 boundaries and 3 maximums all over the ground. Tristan Stubbs and Gulbadin Naib took on RR bowlers in the death over of the innings, including 21 runs in the over of Yuzvendra Chahal. Seeing effortless batting by Tristan Stubbes, even the Delhi Capitals mentor and coach Ricky Ponting were shocked after seeing Stubbes charging on Sandeep Sharma for six.

It was the second ball of the 20th over by Sandeep, which was a short delivery going outside the off stump. Stubbs was waiting for it and sent it nonchalantly over the bowler's head for a flat-batted six.

Delhi won the match by 20 runs in the second inning of exceptional bowling by Kuldeep Yadav, who picked 2 key wickets for RR in his 4 overs of conceding only 25 runs.