On Thursday, April 20 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. The Delhi Capitals (DC) played the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Ishant Sharma stood out for the DC.
The 34-year-old returned with statistics of 2/19 in his four overs. He fired Sunil Narine before firing KKR captain Nitish Rana as a pitcher. His outstanding bowling allowed DC to bowl KKR out for 70/6 in 11-point two overs.
Ishant made an outstanding comeback in the IPL, much to the fans’ delight. One user tweeted the following. Ishant Sharma had a dream come true. Losing his spot in the Indian team, he last participated in the IPL in 2021. He returned to the team when Delhi lost 4 straight games, scoring just 19 runs and taking 2 wickets in 4 overs.
Ishant Sharma has done well with the ball
Ishant Sharma won the player of the match award in the first victory of Delhi.
What a return for Ishant, one to remember for him. pic.twitter.com/pU2bH9sP3U
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 20, 2023
After going unsold the previous year, Ishant Sharma’s feats occurred in his first-ever game of the IPL 2023. Following the two-game Test series against New Zealand in December 2021.
The right-arm pacer was also removed from the national team. The Delhi cricketer, however, continued to excel in league play. The DC management purchased him at the IPL 2023 mini-auction. For a base price of 50 lacks confidence in his abilities. He has 94 IPL games under his belt, scoring 75 wickets.
Ishant Sharma’s DC is given a 128-run target by KKR. The Delhi Capitals’ potent bowling performance enabled them to dismiss the Kolkata Knight Riders for just 127 runs in the allotted 20 overs.
While Andre Russell contributed with an unbeaten 38 off 31 balls. All the other players were unable to produce with the bat after Jason Roy, who is making his debut and top-scored with 43 off 39 balls.
Anrich Nortje, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Ishant all took two wickets, while Mukesh Kumar only managed one. David Warner, the captain of the Delhi Capitals is joined in the starting lineup by Philip Salt, Mitchell Marsh, Manish Pandey, Aman Hakim Khan, Lalit Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma and Mukesh Kumar.
Jason Roy, Litton Das as a wicketkeeper, Venkatesh Iyer as the captain, Nitish Rana at shortstop, Mandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Kulwant Khejroliya, Umesh Yadav and Varun Chakaravarthy make up the Kolkata Knight Riders playing XI.
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