IPL 2024: Irfan Pathan takes a dig at Rishabh Pant after DC's loss towards KKR

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Former India allrounder Irfan Pathan has taken a dig at Rishabh Pant after Delhi Capitals’ loss towards Kolkata Knight Riders on the Eden Gardens on Monday (April 29).

KKR thrashed DC through seven wickets to get again to profitable techniques and bolster their playoffs probabilities. DC captain Rishabh Pant raised quite a lot of eyebrows together with his choice to bat first at a venue the place groups had chased down large totals equivalent to 224 and 262 in contemporary video games.

Sooner than coming to Kolkata, DC had received their final two video games whilst batting first and made up our minds to bat first towards KKR as smartly. Then again, the verdict backfired spectacularly because the Delhi-based outfit used to be totally outplayed through the house aspect.

Fit overview in brief:

Batting first, the Rishabh Pant-led aspect may handiest organize 153/9 within the allocated 20 overs. DC misplaced the wickets of Prithvi Shaw, Jake Fraser-McGurk and Shai Hope throughout the powerplay and simply may no longer get well. At one degree, they had been reeling at 111 for 8 earlier than an unbeaten 35-run knock from Kuldeep Yadav guided them to a decent 153.

In answer, KKR chased down the entire with utmost ease. In-form opener Phil Salt put them recreation to mattress through smashing a 26-ball fifty and sharing a 79-run stand in simply 37 balls with Sunil Narine for the primary wicket. KKR ultimately crossed the completing line within the seventeenth over to get again to check in their 6th win in 9 video games this season.

Irfan Pathan unimpressed with DC:

As Rishabh Pant and his DC teammates did not justify the verdict to bat first, Irfan Pathan made it transparent that he used to be unimpressed with the ball. The previous cricketer took to X (previously Twitter) to take a dig at Rishabh Pant’ choice to bat first as he wrote:

“Nonetheless looking to perceive the cause of Delhi to bat first.”

Nonetheless looking to perceive the cause of Delhi to bat first.

— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) April 29, 2024

Rishabh Pant on batting first:

Talking on the finish of the sport, Rishabh Pant spread out on his choice to bat first after profitable the toss. He known as it a excellent possibility earlier than ruing his batters’ failure to ship with the bat.

“It used to be a excellent solution to bat first. As a batting unit we did not bat smartly, 150 used to be under par with how issues had been going. However we be told from our errors, on a daily basis isn’t your day,” stated Rishabh Pant.

“The best way we had been going as a crew used to be great (profitable 4 out in their final 5 video games), however those video games come alongside in T20s. I feel the rest round 180-210 would were a excellent ranking, we did not give our bowlers sufficient runs to shield,” he added.

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