Prithvi Shaw scored a 41-ball 82 as Delhi Capitals pulled off a comprehensive 7-wicket win to grab second place on the points table. The former cricketer was also impressed with Shaw for finding gaps.
Delhi Capitals opener Prithvi Shaw scored the fastest fifty of Indian Premier League 2021 on Thursday during the chase of 155 against Kolkata Knight Riders in the 25th match of the tournament in Ahmedabad. He scored a 41-ball 82 as DC pulled off a comprehensive 7-wicket win to grab second place on the points table.
Prithvi Shaw Hits 6 Boundaries Off All The 6 Balls In The 1st Over
Prithvi Shaw provided a blistering start to DC in the chase in the IPL 2021 match. He hogged the limelight with his six consecutive boundaries against KKR pacer Shivam Mavi in the opening over. Interestingly, he is only the second batsman after his teammate Ajinkya Rahane to do so in the history of the league.
Earlier, Ajinkya Rahane had dished out similar treatment in 2012. Playing for the Rajasthan Royals, he hit six fours off six balls off the bowling of left-arm pacer Sreenath Aravind who was representing Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Rajasthan Royals, batting first were 82/1 in 13 overs before he hammered six fours in a row off Sreenath Aravind. Ajinkya Rahane went on to score a century, remaining not out on 103 off 60 balls as Royals beat RCB by 59 runs.
Virender Sehwag: Hitting Off 6 Consecutive Fours Isn’t An Easy Task As Timing Should Be Perfect To Find Gaps
Former Indian opener Virender Sehwag was highly impressed with Prithvi Shaw’s power-packed performance.
In a conversation with Cricbuzz, Virender Sehwag admitted that even he used to think of smashing all the six balls when he opened the innings in his playing days but he could never achieve the feat unlike what Prithvi Shaw did against KKR.
“Smashing six boundaries off all the six balls means playing every ball through the perfect gap, which is not easy. I’ve opened in my career and had thought of smashing all the six balls so many times. But I got a maximum of 18 or 20 odd runs. I couldn’t hit six boundaries or six sixes. For that you need to be perfect on your timing so that you can find those gaps,” Virender Sehwag told Cricbuzz.
“Prithvi Shaw was excellent with the bat. He didn’t look as if he has come to play a cricket match. Or maybe he had the confidence of playing with Shivam Mavi in the U-19 team that he knew where the bowler would bowl exactly.
“I have batted against Ashish Nehra so many times in nets, domestic games but would never be able to hit him for six boundaries in an over. Hats off to Prithvi Shaw for his fantastic innings,” he added.
Virender Sehwag further said that Prithvi Shaw should have got his hundred as he has come a long way after going through a rough patch.
“It would have been more exciting if he had got a hundred. He has gone through tough times already. But now, when the runs were coming, he must have scored a hundred or remained unbeaten and finished the chase,” Sehwag concluded.
Prithvi Shaw has 269 runs in 7 matches averaging 38.42 at a staggering strike rate of 165.03 with 3 fifties. He is 3rd highest run-scorer in IPL 2021 and has hit the most boundaries after Shikhar Dhawan who is the highest run-scorer.
Earlier, Shubman Gill couldn’t capitalize on a good start after the right-hander was dismissed for 43 off Avesh Khan’s bowling. KKR scored 18 runs off the penultimate over by Kagiso Rabada after Andre Russell clobbered two huge sixes along with a four. The final over from Avesh Khan gave away 13 runs after Andre Russell finished the innings in style with a maximum, helping KKR to put 154/6 on board.
Prithvi Shaw played an exceptional knock at the top, scoring 82 off 41 deliveries as DC chased down the total in the 17th over after the bowlers restricted KKR to 154/6.
Brief Scores: Delhi Capitals: 156/3 (Prithvi Shaw 82, Shikhar Dhawan 46; Pat Cummins 3/24 ) beat Kolkata Knight Riders: 154/6 (Andre Russell 45*, Shubman Gill 43; Lalit Yadav 2/13) by 7 wickets.
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