Last night, I saw an exciting T-20 match between Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab. It had all the elements of a suspense thriller. The Punjab team won the toss, elected to bat and lost three valuable wickets before they had put then twenty-five runs on the board. Maxwell, their star batsmen, was out for a duck. The entire team could manage a paltry 112 runs. I thought Delhi Daredevils were going to have cakewalk. But their start was even more disastrous than that of their rivals, for at one stage, they were 6 for 3. However, at this juncture, Rishabh Pant stepped in and gradually improved the situation. Pant played patiently and waited for loose balls to score. The fact that the Daredevils were facing only a modest total also helped them. Pant saved any further dramatic collapse and steered his team to a great victory. It was a low-scoring match but full of great thrills.
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