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IPL 2018: Rishabh Pant hammers seventh fifty, leads Delhi Daredevils fightback
Rishabh Pant struck his seventh IPL half-century with a flurry of attacking shots against pace and spin against Royal Challengers Bangalore in an Indian Premier League match
Rishabh Pant hammered a 27–ball half-century to pull Delhi Daredevils out of early trouble against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground on Saturday. (Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2018 - highlights)
The 20-year-old left-handed batsman struck his seventh IPL half-century with a flurry of attacking shots against pace and spin. (Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2018 - Scorecard)
It was Pant’s fourth fifty of IPL 2018, beside a century. His fifty included four fours and four sixes. Delhi were 99/2 in the 12thover with skipper Shreyas Iyer batting at the other end.
Pant, in red-hot form after smashing 128 not out, the highest score of IPL 2018, against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday in a losing cause, took off from where he had left.
He dealt purely in the pull shot early, taking on Kiwi pacer Tim Southee and then Umesh Yadav before hoisting Mohammed Siraj over long-on and long-off for sixes in the eighth over.
He dominated the 37-ball fifty stand for the third wicket with skipper Shreyas Iyer, to rotated the strike to let Pant go after the bowling.
The Delhi wicketkeeper, who experts led by former India skipper Sourav Ganguly say must be consistent to come into India reckoning, went past Kings XI Punjab opener KL Rahul as the highest scorer of IPL 2018 when he got to 19.
