DC vs RR yesterday match highlights: Rishabh Pant controversy highlights around no ball in Delhi vs Rajasthan 2022 IPL match

Dixit Bhargav | 23/04/2022
DC vs RR yesterday match highlights: Rishabh Pant controversy highlights around no ball in Delhi vs Rajasthan 2022 IPL match

DC vs RR yesterday match highlights: Indian Premier League 2022 Match 34 witnessed a player and an assistant coach going overboard.

In spite of batters scoring 429 runs and bowlers picking 10 wickets, the recently concluded 34th Indian Premier League 2022 match will be remembered for Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant and assistant coach Pravin Amre’s public disapproval of on-field umpire’s decision to not convert a waist-height full toss into a no-ball.

Delhi batter Rovman Powell appeared to have lost out on a badly needed six-hitting momentum due to an elongated halt at the Wankhede Stadium tonight. Needing 36 runs to win off six deliveries to seal a 223-run chase, Powell had hit three sixes in a row only to be interrupted by his own captain and a member of the support staff.

As a result, Rajasthan Royals fast bowler Obed McCoy managed to contain the batter to give away only a couple of runs off the last three balls to register a 15-run victory.

While McCoy’s teammate Prasidh Krishna emerged as a star whilst successfully defending a total, opening batter Jos Buttler scoring his third century of the ongoing 15th season of the IPL put Rajasthan in a commendable position after Pant invited them to bat first.

DC vs RR yesterday match highlights

An archetype dramatic turn of events were accompanied by a lot of severity as Pant was visibly asking Powell and non-striker Kuldeep Yadav to forfeit the match due to a decision not going in their favour.

Had it not been for another assistant coach at DC in Shane Watson’s words to Pant, the matter was likely to be extended especially after Amre entered the playing area to argue with the umpire with respect to the decision.

In what was Capitals’ fourth IPL 2022 loss, they are still at the sixth position on the points table waiting for a turnaround in the second half of the league phase. Royals, on the other hand, have reached to the top of the points table on the back of winning five and losing two out of their seven matches thus far.

You can watch the highlights of this match by clicking here.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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