Rishabh Pant returned unbeaten after scoring 88 runs in the match against Gujarat Titans.
IPL 2024 was played on 24th April between Delhi Capitals and Gujarat Titans at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi. In this match, Gujarat won the toss and decided to bowl first and Delhi, batting first, put 224 runs on the board. Rishabh Pant and Akshar Patel played half-centuries in this match for Delhi.
During his innings of 88 runs in this match, Rishabh Pant hit some such shots which everyone is praising, but one of them was such that everyone was surprised to see it. Actually, in this match, Pant played a helicopter shot, the video of which is going viral very fast on social media.
What actually happened was that on the first ball of the 16th over of Delhi’s innings, Rishabh Pant played a helicopter shot on Mohit Sharma’s ball which went straight across the boundary for six runs. Mohit had bowled that ball on Rishabh’s pads towards the leg stump and it was a full length ball. On this, Rishabh swung his bat and hit an excellent six towards the cow corner. Seeing this shot of his, Sourav Ganguly also clapped and appreciated.
See that helicopter shot of Rishabh Pant here
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Talking about the match, Delhi, who came to bat first, had a very bad start. Openers Prithvi Shaw (11) and Jack Fraser McGurk (23) failed to play big innings. Shai Hope also left after scoring 5 runs. After this, Akshar Patel and Rishabh Pant together took charge of Delhi’s innings.
There was a partnership of 113 runs between the two and due to this Delhi finally managed to touch the 200 mark. Axar Patel was out after scoring 66 runs while Pant returned unbeaten after scoring 88 runs. Apart from this, Tristan Stubbs played a quick inning of 26 runs in 7 balls.