GL Defeated DD by 1 Run Last Night But Chris Morris won the Heart

What a Match that was. Last night in IPL 2016, we have witnesses a thrilling match yesterday. It was Gujarat Lions vs Delhi Daredevils where GL defeated DD by just 1 run. It was a very close match and went to the last ball of the inning where Delhi need 4 runs to win the match but only able to score 2 runs and Gujarat Lions won the match by just 1 run. But the hero of the match was South African All-rounder Chris Morris who came on the crease when DD need him most. Daredevils needed more than 110 runs in last 9 overs when he came to bat. With the 8 sixes and 4 fours he took his team back in the game and in the last over they needed only 14 runs but remained 1 run short for the super over.

Chris Morris scored fastest fifty of IPL 2016. He reached to his half-century in just 17 balls score 52 runs. If we look onto his innings, he remained not out on 82 runs on just 32 ball with 8 massive sixes ( one of them was of 101 meters which included in the list of Top 10 Longest Sixes of IPL 2016 ) and 4 fours. For the fifth wicket, Morris and Duminy made a partnership of 87 run on just 39 balls. JP Duminy dismissed by Bravo and he scored 48 runs on 43 balls.

Gujarat Lions are invited to bat first by Zaheer Khan as he won the toss. Despite of very good start of GL team they only able to put 172 runs on the board. The first wicket was fallen on 112 runs in 10.4 overs and from there, on regular interval wickets started fallen. At the end of 20 overs they score 172 run on the loss of 6 wickets.

A very poor start from Delhi daredevils, In 4 overs they have lost 3 wickets on just 16 runs. From there the next wicket fallen in 10.4 over of Rishabh Pant at a score of 57 run. So in 11 overs DD score was around 60 runs and in the last 9 overs they have added 110 runs and all credit goes to Chris Morris innings.

Turning Point of DD vs GL Match : The turning point of the match was JP Duminy’s wicket and the 19th over of Praveen kumar in which he gave just 4 runs.

Delhi Daredevil lost the match by 1 run but the man who won the heart of all cricket fans in yesterday’s IPL match of GL vs DD was Morris who is selected as Man of the match. Currently Gujarat Lions are on the first position on the points table with 10 points and Delhi Daredevils are on 3rd spot with 6 points.

Check Full Scorecard of the Match here.