Delhi Capitals vs Punjab Kings, 11th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: Indian Premier League 2021 Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Date & Time: Apr 18, 07:30 PM LOCAL

Shikhar Dhawan continues his golden run in the IPL with yet-another fifty © BCCI

Hindsight is never a nice thing to use in judging losses. But if Punjab were to try, it's KL Rahul's innings they'll probably pick out here. 195 is really a lot but a 51-ball 61 in conditions as flat as this is never ideal. Perhaps Gayle's spot in the team needs to be looked into as well. Anyway, we'll leave it at this for now. Hope you enjoyed reading this section, and until next time, ta ta!!

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Lukman Meriwala -- Maiden IPL wicket. At this stage, it just doesn't get bigger than Agarwal's. Quite a sweet feeling after the first over punishment that he was put under. Still, Agarwal can be pleased. 69 runs | 36 balls, and a 122-run stand in just 12.4 overs. He's put Punjab on course for 200!

He may've taken three games to arrive, oh, but arrive he has.MAYANK AGARWAL -- Fifty | 25 balls | 7 fours | 2 sixes. Surely there's a century coming.

Ashwin - Smashed. Rabada - Smashed. Lalit Yadav - Smashed. Woakes - Smashed. Meriwala - Smashed the most. Avesh Khan is yet to bowl! This is carnage ..

Very quickly, Mayank Agarwal joins the party, and like that annoying friend, steals the limelight ..he's smashing them around for fun here, scoring at a strike-rate of over 200 while Rahul's under 100. And he was supposed to be out of form. Huh! Anyway, Punjab - just like that - are at 59/0 in the powerplay.

Okay, we're starting. It's KL Rahul's birthday, and Chris Waokes - the nicest guy that he is - dishes out a nice juicy full one on the legs to get flicked into the boundary. And then in the very next over, Steve Smith puts him down too. Well, well. Birthdays just don't get better!

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Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Steven Smith, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Lalit Yadav, Chris Woakes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Avesh Khan, Lukman Meriwala

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w/c), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Shahrukh Khan, Jhye Richardson, Jalaj Saxena, Mohammed Shami, Riley Meredith, Arshdeep Singh

Delhi Capitals are bowling. Punjab Kings are batting. Guess who won the toss! Well, one interesting change is Steven Smith getting a game here, his debut of sorts. Also Jalaj Saxena is getting to play an IPL game after nearly ten years of slogging it out in the domestic circuit.

It's damn simple, you win the toss, YOU BOWL. You don't think, you just bowl.

While you hang around, do munch in on our preview, our bbb commentary and do hop over to Chennai where RCB have kept KKR on a leash.

Match #11:It's the North Derby. Two teams, two similar histories, two similar pretty up-and-down campaigns thus far, and two pretty similar dressing-room moods. Moods of disappointment, for Delhi to have thrown away a game that was clearly in their pocket against RR, and for Punjab to have crumbled the way they did against CSK. What'll also be interesting is the way this Wankhede pitch plays out tonight. After a couple of high-scorers and a couple of tacky tracks, who knows what's been churned up today. Nevertheless, someone's getting their campaign back on track tonight. And irrespective, it promises to be fun ..