IPL: Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs set a record run-rate with their partnership.
The pair set this record at the Arun Jaitley Stadium during the match versus Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).In the DC innings, Stubbs entered to bat in the eighteenth over. The pair scored 1, 4, 1, 6, 0, and 2 for a total of 14 runs in the 18th over that Mohit Sharma bowled.
First, Stubbs took a single in spinner Sai Kishore’s penultimate over; then, Pant took a single. The South African batsman then went on the rampage, hitting a four, six, four, and six. the 22 runs overspent.
When Mohit came to bowl in the last over, Pant confronted him the whole over. Mohit struck a wide after taking a double. After that, Pant gave Mohit the worst thrashing of his IPL career, hitting him for 6, 4, 6, 6, and 6. With his final stats of 0/73 in four overs, Mohit became the most expensive player in IPL history. In the last over, 31 runs were scored.
With a partnership run-rate of 22.33, Pant and Stubbs scored an additional 67 runs in 18 balls. The run rate that Heinrich Klaasen and Shahbaz Ahmed scored together for Sunrisers Hyderabad against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) this season has been surpassed by this. They scored 58 runs in 16 balls during the 209-run chase, or 21.75 runs per over.
Gujarat chose to bowl first after winning the toss and moving on to the game. Following a quick start from the opening pair, Prithvi Shaw (11 in seven balls, two fours, and two sixes) and Jake Fraser McGurk (23 in 14 balls), DC was bowled out for 44/3. Next, Axar Patel (66 off 43 balls, including four fours and four sixes) and Rishabh Pant attacked GT from the opposite end.
Together, Pant and Tristan Stubbs (26* in seven balls, three fours, and two sixes) obliterated GT’s death bowling in the final overs. Pant concluded with five fours and eight sixes at 88* in 43 balls.In their 20 overs, DC was 224/4. The best bowler for GT was Sandeep Warrier (3/15).
Captain Shubman Gill was lost early by GT in the run-chase. With an 82-run partnership between Wriddhiman Saha (39 in 25 balls, five fours, and a six) and Sai Sudarshan (65 in 39 balls, seven fours and two sixes), a counterattack was once again in the works.
Later in the innings, Rashid Khan (21* in 11 balls, with three fours and a six), Sai Kishore (13 in six balls with two sixes), and David Miller (55 in 23 balls with six fours and three sixes) put pressure on the DC bowlers, but the hosts held their composure to win by four runs, limiting GT to 220/8 in their 20 overs.
Among DC’s best bowlers were Rasikh Salam (3/44) and Kuldeep Yadav (2/29). Pant won the title of “Player of the Match. “With four victories, five defeats, and eight points, DC is ranked sixth in the points table. Conversely, GT holds the seventh position with identical win-loss and point totals, but a lower net run rate.