145/8 (20.0)
CR : 7.25
157/5 (20.0)
CR : 7.85
Tripura won by 12 runs 🏆
Player of the Match
Manisankar Murasingh
2/1925(18)
19.3
1
Debnath to M Grewal
Full and wide of off, Grewal hoicks it to long-on for a single.
19.4
1W
Debnath to P Yadav
WICKET! TRIPURA ARE ALMOST THERE! Length delivery bowled wide of off, Prince cracks it to the right of deep covers and takes off for the second run. However, Vijay Shankar runs in and fires a cracking throw to Sentu Sarkar who whips off the bails. We will go upstairs to check the run-out appeal. The replays show that Prince was well short of the crease. 'OUT' is the decision from the TV umpire.
19.5
0
Debnath to Rathi
Full and angling in, Digvesh tries to swipe it through mid-wicket but he misses it. He denies a single as well.
19.6
1
Debnath to Rathi
A MASSIVE WIN FOR TRIPURA! Full outside-off, Digvesh lifts it in front of long-off for just a single as Delhi fall short by 12 runs. A professional performance from Tripura led by their inspirational skipper Manisankar Murasingh. The importance of the victory can be seen by the fist pump from Murasingh.
Over 20
Delhi 145/8
Money Grewal1(1)
Digvesh Singh Rathi1(2)
Indrajit Pradip Debnath1-7(1.0)
TRI won by 12 runs
02:40 PM IST, 02:40 PM Local Time: A famous, famous win for Tripura as they beat Delhi by 12 runs. It was a complete bowling performance from Tripura with captain Manisankar Murasingh leading from the front to produce their first win of the season.
Chasing 158 for victory, Delhi got off to a bad start as Manisankar Murasingh and Saruk Hossain moved the ball appreaciably. Tripura eventually got the reward for it as Priyansh Arya got a top-edge on his cut shot to fly to deep backward point as Murasingh struck the first blow. Delhi didn't lose a wicket after that in the Powerplay but they could only manage 43 runs.
The run-scoring continued to be slow after the field spread out as well with the spin bowling duo of Viki Saha and Swapnil Singh giving nothing away. Swapnil benefited from the pressure as Dhull miscued a full-toss to long-off in the eighth over. Delhi got to 68/2 at the half-way stage of the innings needing 90 off the remaining 60 balls. However, things only got worse for them as Ayush Badoni and Himmat Singh departed off back-to-back overs with Viki and Amit Ali accounting for their wickets.
A few overs later, Nitish Rana and Tejaswi Dahiya managed to find the fence with better regularity while the former also reached 5000 runs in T20s in the process. Yet, Viki had Rana stumped in his final over to keep Tripura ahead in the contest. Swapnil and Murasingh delivered cracking overs to let 20 runs for the final over. Murasingh gave the ball to Indrajit Debnath and the seamer paid back the trust by only conceding eight runs eventually.
Earlier on in the match, the Tripura opening duo of Bikramkumar Das and Hanuma Vihari got off to a brisk start in the Powerplay. But Suyash Sharma came into the attack in the fifth over and dismissed Vihari while Tripura went onto end the Powerplay at 51/1. Suyash wasn't done yet as he also castled Bikramkumar in the 7th over.
A couple of overs later, Digvesh Rathi got rid of Vijay Shankar cheaply to put a choke on Tripura's scoring. In the meantime, Sridam Paul played a few fine shots to keep his side afloat before Digvesh had him caught behind as well in the 13th over. Thereafter, the experienced duo of Swapnil Singh and Manisankar Murasingh built a slow yet key partnership. Swapnil departed after making 21 as he was bowled by Ayush Badoni in the 15th over.
Tripura found it difficult to find the acceleration and it looked like they would settle for a total around 145. But the Delhi captain Nitish Rana's gamble to continue with the spinners until the end of the innings came back to hurt him as the pair of Murasingh and Sentu Sarkar managed to take 18 runs off the final over bowled by Badoni. Murasingh's cameo helped his side post a respectable total of 157/5 off their 20 overs.
Chasing 158 for victory, Delhi got off to a bad start as Manisankar Murasingh and Saruk Hossain moved the ball appreaciably. Tripura eventually got the reward for it as Priyansh Arya got a top-edge on his cut shot to fly to deep backward point as Murasingh struck the first blow. Delhi didn't lose a wicket after that in the Powerplay but they could only manage 43 runs.
The run-scoring continued to be slow after the field spread out as well with the spin bowling duo of Viki Saha and Swapnil Singh giving nothing away. Swapnil benefited from the pressure as Dhull miscued a full-toss to long-off in the eighth over. Delhi got to 68/2 at the half-way stage of the innings needing 90 off the remaining 60 balls. However, things only got worse for them as Ayush Badoni and Himmat Singh departed off back-to-back overs with Viki and Amit Ali accounting for their wickets.
A few overs later, Nitish Rana and Tejaswi Dahiya managed to find the fence with better regularity while the former also reached 5000 runs in T20s in the process. Yet, Viki had Rana stumped in his final over to keep Tripura ahead in the contest. Swapnil and Murasingh delivered cracking overs to let 20 runs for the final over. Murasingh gave the ball to Indrajit Debnath and the seamer paid back the trust by only conceding eight runs eventually.
Earlier on in the match, the Tripura opening duo of Bikramkumar Das and Hanuma Vihari got off to a brisk start in the Powerplay. But Suyash Sharma came into the attack in the fifth over and dismissed Vihari while Tripura went onto end the Powerplay at 51/1. Suyash wasn't done yet as he also castled Bikramkumar in the 7th over.
A couple of overs later, Digvesh Rathi got rid of Vijay Shankar cheaply to put a choke on Tripura's scoring. In the meantime, Sridam Paul played a few fine shots to keep his side afloat before Digvesh had him caught behind as well in the 13th over. Thereafter, the experienced duo of Swapnil Singh and Manisankar Murasingh built a slow yet key partnership. Swapnil departed after making 21 as he was bowled by Ayush Badoni in the 15th over.
Tripura found it difficult to find the acceleration and it looked like they would settle for a total around 145. But the Delhi captain Nitish Rana's gamble to continue with the spinners until the end of the innings came back to hurt him as the pair of Murasingh and Sentu Sarkar managed to take 18 runs off the final over bowled by Badoni. Murasingh's cameo helped his side post a respectable total of 157/5 off their 20 overs.
So, that is it from myself, Karthik Raj and my co-commentator, Deepak Prakash as we wrap up the coverage of this fixture. A word of thanks to our scorer, Asraj Khan as well. Stay tuned to our network and enjoy other cricketing action on currently.