PBKS vs DC Highlights, IPL 2024: Curran, Livingstone lead Punjab Kings to four-wicket win vs Delhi Capitals

Sumit with the last over. Two wides to start with. He brings the ball in to get a dot ball against Livingstone. But Sumit can’t deny Punjab Kings for long enough. Full from Sumit and thumped away over long on by Livingstone for a six. 

Punjab Kings wins by four wickets!

Short from Khaleel to new-batter Shashank Singh, who can’t get it away. Easy catch for Pant. Are win in for a late drama?

Shashank Singh c †Pant b Ahmed 0 (1b 0x4 0x6)

Last ball of the over. Short from Khaleel and Harpreet edges it. Warner gets under it, but the ball slips out of his hands. DROPPED!!!

Six runs needed off the last ball!

Khaleel with the all-important 19th over. Two singles to start with. Curran on strike. Khaleel with an off cutter, which skids into the stumps, past Curran’s flailing bat. BOWLED!!

Sam Curran b Ahmed 63 (47b 6x4 1x6)

Short from Marsh. But there is no pace on it. Curran has all the time in the world to guide in past deep fine leg for an easy six. Back of a length now from Marsh. Curran steps away to the leg side, before slicing it past point for a four. Short again from Marsh. This time to Livingstone. Same treatment. Smoked away for a six. Just 10 needed now. 

Khaleel Ahmed with the 17th over as the game heads into a nervy climax. Wide and short to start with. Livingstone swats it for a single. Khaleel spears in a widish yorker. Livingstone manages to squeeze it past the keeper for a four. On the pads now from Khaleel and Livingstone flicks it away for a four. A single to close off the over. 

28 needed from the last three overs. 

Final over of the day from Axar Patel. Couple of singles to start the over. Full from Axar now and Curran guides it to long on for a single to bring up his fifty. He has held together this chase for Punjab Kings. Axar winds up his miserly spell. 25/0 in four overs. 

Wide from marsh to start the 16th. Curran smacks it through the cover region. FOUR!! Short from Marsh. Curran guides it off his back foot to backward square leg boundary. FOUR MORE!! An off side wide follows from Marsh. Length from Marsh and Livingstone latches onto it. Carted away for a six over mid wicket fence. 

Drifted in by Kuldeep. Curran tries to lob it straight back. Edge and it is a catching chance. But it is too much for Stubbs at long on. DROPPED!! The left-arm wrist spinner continues to keep it tight. Just four runs from his final over. End of a fantastic spell from Kuldeep. 2/21 from his four overs. 

Axar too with his third over. Quickish length ball. Slapped away by Curran. Warner puts in a diving stop at long on to prevent a boundary. No easy runs on offer for Kings as the required run rate climbs. 

Third over for Kuldeep. Jitesh and Curran trade singles to start off the over. Outside the off from Kuldeep. Jitesh tries an extravagant reverse sweep. Misses the ball completely. This time Pant gets the stumping correct. 

Jitesh Sharma st †Pant b Kuldeep Yadav 9 (9b 1x4 0x6)

Another smart over from Kuldeep. PBKS 103/4 in 12 overs.

Sumit Kumar with his first ball in IPL against Jitesh. Goes wide on the leg side. Pant makes a good gather and removes the bails in a flash. Replays show Jitesh had just made his way back. Short from Sumit and Curran flat bats it for a four to deep mid wicket. Again short. This time Jitesh with the flat-bat smack. FOUR OVER EXTRA COVER!!

Kuldeep continues. Pushed full by Kuldeep. Prabhsimran tries to go over the top. But the connection is poor and David Warner completes an easy catch at long on. 

Prabhsimran Singh c Warner b Kuldeep Yadav 26 (17b 5x4 0x6)

Just four runs from the over. PBKS 87/3 in 10 overs

Good length from Axar and Prabhsimran clips it to long on to take a single. Curran too punches one to long on to add a single. Dragged back from Axar and Prabhsimran pounces on it off his back foot. Crashed away for a four. 

Kuldeep Yadav from the other end now for DC. Prabhsimran jumps out of the crease and Kuldeep tries to push the ball way past the off-side wide line. The Punjab batter somehow manages to get his bat onto it. Just four singles from the first four balls of the over. Kuldeep misses his length now. Curran moves to his backfoot before cracking it to the leg side for a four. 

First over of the day for Axar Patel. Prabhsimran steps out and attempts a straight drive. DC players go up in appeal for an LBW. No reaction from the umpire and DC reviews it. Wickets missing. DC loses a review. Axar continues to keep it tight. No boundaries from the over. 

Marsh with the final over of the PowerPlay. Goes around the wicket against Curran. Full and wide and smoked through the covers. Prabhsimran pushes one to the leg side and sets off for a single. Ishant Sharma attempts to cuts it off, but seems to have twisted his ankle while doing that. The DC physio is out on the field and soon Ishant ambles his way out of the ground. 

Khaleel returns. He starts with a couple of dot balls against Sam Curran, the new batter for Punjab Kings. Full and straight now from Khaleel. Tucked away for a couple of runs by Curran. Khaleel goes around the wicket against Prabhsimran. Back of a length and carted away for a four by the right-handed batter. Prabhsimran anticipates the fuller length next up. Jumps out of the crease before smacking it for another four. 

Length ball on the off stump from Ishant against new-batter Prabhsimran Singh. Edge, but it runs away for a four past Pant. FOUR!! Length again from Ishant. This time Prabhsimran dances down before slamming it past extra cover for another four. There is no stopping Punjab Kings’ momentum. Oh wait. Prabhsimran crunches a straight drive. Ishant Sharma manages to get a touch onto it. Bairstow had backed up too much and is caught out of the crease at the non-striker’s end. 

Jonny Bairstow run out (Sharma) 9 (3b 2x4 0x6)

Ishant Sharma continues. Straight and jagging in. Dhawan fails to connect after dancing down. BOWLED!!

Shikhar Dhawan b Sharma 22 (16b 4x4 0x6)

Mitch Marsh replaces Khaleel and he he gives away a four first ball. Full and wide. Dhawan flashes at it. Thick edge and flies away for a four past backward point. FOUR!! Couple of singles added as Bairstow and Dhawan keep the scoreboard ticking. 

Ishant Sharma from the other end. Starts with a couple of wides. Ishant brings it in now, but not enough. Dhawan crashes it through the covers for another four. Another wide now from Ishant. Better line now from the right-arm pacer. Cramps Dhawan with some good length deliveries. Just a single from the rest of the over. 

PBKS skipper Shikhar Dhawan walks in with Jonny Bairstow to begin the chase. Khaleel Ahmed with the ball for Capitals. Short and wide first ball and Dhawan slices it for a four past point. Khaleel offers width again and Dhawan hits the same area. CUT AWAY FOR ANOTHER FOUR!! On the pads now and clipped away for a single. Bairstow too gets into the act. Guides it past first slip for another four. Now Bairstow leans onto the cover drive. FOUR MORE!! Brilliant start for the Kings. 

PBKS 17/0 in 1 over

Harshal to bowl the final over of the innings. Punjab Kings has brought on Prabhsimran Singh as Impact Player for Arshdeep Singh. FOUR! Short and pulled away by Porel for a boundary at fine-leg. SIX! A wild slog by Porel and the balls sails away for a big maximum over deep square-leg. Crucial runs for DC at the back-end. FOUR! More short stuff and Porel is equal to the task, pulling this away again to the fine-leg boundary. FOUR! Dragged back again and Porel has ramped this to the boundary behind him. SIX! Harshal’s tame short-ball ploy continues and Porel has pulled this for a six over deep backward square-leg. Full toss to end the innings and Porel drives it down the ground for a single. Kuldeep Yadav is run out going for the inevitable second. That’s 25 runs from the final over, and that will give DC some confidence. 

Arshdeep Singh bowls out. Slow and short and Sumit misses the attempted aerial cut over backward point. Short again and this is called wide for height. Punjab takes the review against the decision, but the umpire’s ruling stands as this has gone over the batter’s head. Another play-and-a-miss by Sumit, who is on 2 off 8 balls. OUT! Sumit gets an outside edge trying to go for a heave down the ground. Kuldeep Yadav is the new man in. He takes off for a risky single after dropping the ball behind point. Pulled away by Porel for just one at deep square-leg. Another short ball to end the over and Kuldeep can’t make a connection. 

Sumit Kumar c Jitesh Sharma b Arshdeep Singh 2 (9b)

Harshal will bowl his first of his final two at the death. A touch-and-go run-out appeal and third umpire comes into play. Axar is just short of his crease and has to go. Big blow for Delhi at the death. Excellent throw from substitute fielder Tanay Thyagarajan. Abishek Porel comes in as Impact Player, in place of Ricky Bhui. He gets off mark with a single after driving the ball to mid-off. Whipped off the pads by Sumit for one more. Excellent death bowling by Harshal so far. Slower bouncer and pulled away for just a single by Porel. Slow and short, and Sumit pulls this for one more. FOUR! Craftily guided by Porel to the third-man boundary off the last ball of the over. 

Axar Patel run out 21 (13b 2x4 1x6)

Rabada comes back at the death for his final over. SIX! Short and wide outside off and Axar slices this just over the head of the deep third-man fielder. One more for him next ball with a pull to fine-leg. Driven by Sumit straight to point. Short ball and pulled away by Sumit to square-leg for his first run in the IPL. A single for Axar to end the over. 

Rahul Chahar bowls out. OUT! Stubbs is caught at deep extra-cover trying to go inside out and a fantastic catch by Shashank Singh in the deep diving to his left. Another IPL debutant, Sumit Kumar, comes out to the middle. He starts off with a couple of dot balls. 

Tristan Stubbs c Shashank Singh b Rahul Chahar 5 (8b)

Arshdeep replaces Harshal and steams in from around the wicket to Stubbs. FOUR! Harshal goes short to Axar, and he punches one through backward point for a boundary. 

Brar continues. Darts in a wide down leg-side but Jitesh feels Bhui got some bat on that. Punjab takes the review. OUT! That has gone off the glove of Bhui and a great review for PBKS. Delhi Capitals in trouble. Axar Patel is in and will have quite the task of rescueing Delhi. FOUR! Outside-edge four first ball for Axar and that brings a cheeky smile on his face. Just six runs from the over. 

Harshal comes back into the attack. Pant tucks this off his hips for a couple of runs behind. FOUR! Full outside off and serenely caressed through cover for a boundary by Pant. He makes room next ball outside off and cuts it over cover for two more. OUT! Harshal makes amends for dropping Pant in the previous over by getting him out. A slower short ball and Pant has picked the wrong delivery for the ramp shot. Ends up lobbing an easy catch to the point fielder. Tristan Stubbs is the new man in and is deceived by a one that keeps low straightaway. 

Rishabh Pant c Jonny Bairstow b Harshal Patel 18 (13b 2x4)

Chahar starts the over with rank full toss and Bhui can only heave to the deep square-leg fielder for a single. FOUR! Pant pulls a rank long hop and Harshal Patel can’t hold on to a catch at deep square-leg and indicates he was blinded by the sunlight. Pant has his first boundary since his comeback, albeit a very lucky one. 

Rabada is back into the attack. Hope is off the mark with a single off the first ball. Pant against pace for the first time today. Rabada comes around the wicket. Pant takes a single after pushing this to deep cover. SIX! Hope clears the ropes with a big-hit over deep midwicket. OUT! A six and out next ball for the second time today. Hope checks his drive and is caught at cover. Ricky Bhui is the new man in. He is off the mark with a single at third man. 

Shai Hope c Harpreet Brar b Rabada 33 (25b 2x4 2x6)

Chahar with his second over. FOUR! Slog-swept by Hope and he picks the gap between square-leg and midwicket to perfection. A short one next ball and pulled away for a single at deep midwicket. Pant steps out and misses a wild heave on leg-side as the ball thuds into his back thigh. A tidy over, just seven runs from it. 

Brar continues. At the moment everyone has waited for has arrived. Rishabh Pant is at the crease. He cuts the first ball he faces late to find the fielder at short third-man. Pant is off the mark with a single off the second ball he faces with a flick on leg-side off the front-foot. Another single for Pant on leg-side after stepping out. There doesn’t seem to be any kind of discomfort in Pant’s footwork. A confident start for him. Time for a Strategic Timeout. 

Harshal Patel into the attack. FOUR! Warner jams his bat at this yorker-length delivery and the sublime timing means he finds the boundary after bisecting the off-side field. A couple of yorkers to follow from Harshal and Warner can’t put them away. Warner ends the over with a slower short delivery and thinks that Warner has gloved this to the keeper. Punjab Kings takes the review. The ball has skimmed over the top edge and Warner has to go back. 

Rahul Chahar from the other end. Hope cuts a short delivery through cover for just one. Warner gets one more next ball with a punch on leg-side off the backfoot. Cut away again to deep point by Hope for one more. Four singles in four balls as Warner works this one off his pads on leg-side. SIX! Hope finally cuts loose. He walks down the track and clears the rope with a clean strike down the ground. FOUR! Cut away, Curran with a horror misfield at point and that runs away to the boundary. Ten runs off the last two ballls to end the over. 

Left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar comes into the attack for the last over of the PowerPlay. Hope is taking some time to get a feel of the tournament, as he moves to 3 off 9 balls. Just three runs from the over as Brar maintains a tight stump-to-stump line. 

Rabada into his second over. Hope cuts this short delivery uppishly to deep third-man for a single. Warner gets an inside edge as he goes for a wild heave on leg-side. FOUR! A bit of room outside off and Warner stays on the backfoot and punches this through mid-off and cover for a boundary. SIX! Warner premeditates this maximum. Shuffles across his stumps and scoops this behind while tumbling over. That also brings up the fifty for DC in 4.5 overs. 

Arshdeep continues. SIX! In the slot on middle and off and Marsh picks it up with ease for a maximum over mid-off. OUT! Six and gone next ball. Marsh drives uppishly and straight to the fielder at cover-point. 

Shai Hope, who make his IPL debut today, is the next man in. He warms up with a couple of dot balls. He is off the mark with a quick single off the last ball of the over. 

Mitchell Marsh c Rahul Chahar b Arshdeep Singh 20 (12b 2x4 2x6)

Kagiso Rabada replaces Curran. He starts off with a wide down leg-side. SIX! Short and pulled away by Marsh for a six behind deep square-leg. Capitals are up and running. FOUR LEG-BYES! Going down leg-side and the balls runs away off Marsh’s pads for four leg-byes and beats Jitesh Sharma’s chase all the way to the boundary. 

Arshdeep Singh from the other end. Width outside off and Warner cuts it only to find the fielder at cover-point. Straight on the stumps and defended back to Arshdeep by Warner. SIX! First maximum of the innings as Warner pulls this short ball imperiously over deep square-leg. FOUR! Too much width outside off and cut away hard by Warner for a four. Arshdeep under pressure. Swinging away too much outside off and called wide. Eleven runs from the five balls in this over so far. Beaten! Hint of away swing and Warner is beaten on the drive. 

David Warner and Mitchell Marsh will open the innings for Delhi Capitals, which will look to turn things around this season, taking inspiration from its skipper Rishabh Pant. Looks like Sam Curran will open the bowling for Punjab. 

First ball. Warner tucks it away on leg-side for a single. FOUR! Marsh is off the mark with a boundary as he flicks this loose ball on leg-side for a four at fine-leg. FOUR! Consecutive boundaries for Marsh. Too easy for him as Curran strays on the pads and the Australian just has to whip it off his pads towards square-leg. Now, a wide down leg-side and Capitals have 10 runs on the board after just four balls. Marsh takes a step forward and drives it straight to the cover fielder. Two dot balls to end the over. 

Abishek Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Vicky Ostwal, Praveen Dubey. 

Rilee Roussow, Prabhsimran Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa. 

Teams batting first have won 14 games while teams chasing have won nine matches at this venue, which today becomes the 36th different ground at which an IPL match has been played. 

Delhi Capitals has thrown all its weight behind its overseas batters by naming Warner, Marsh, Hope and Stubbs in the XI. Will this cost them? Punjab Kings, meanwhile, has a good mix in Livingstone, Bairstow, Rabada and Curran. 

David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant (wk) (c), Ricky Bhui, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sumit Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Khaleel Ahmed, Ishant Sharma. 

Shikhar Dhawan (c), Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Shashank Singh. 

We would have batted first. The wicket looks a little on the slower side. Really emotional time for me. Just want to enjoy the moment. Not thinking much. I think not worried about last season. Really exciting times. We have been preparing well. Four overseas batters for us. [Shai] Hope, [Mitchell] Marsh, [David] Warner, [Tristan] Stubbs.

We are gonna field first. It is a new pitch. We will look to come up with new strategies. We have made some changes. We are used to this ground now. We had a practice match. We will look for some luck on this venue.

Shikhar Dhawan has won the toss and Punjab Kings will field first. Rishabh Pant walked out for the toss as Delhi Capitals skipper. 

The square boudaries are 64m and 67m long on either sides. Matthew Hayden says the black soil pitch is very hard and there is very little grass. There is a breeze blowing towards the batter, so clearing the boundaries will be slightly hard. Hayden says it won’t be as high-scoring a venue as Mohali. 

Which TV channels will broadcast Punjab Kings vs Delhi Capitals IPL 2024 match live?

The IPL 2024 match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals will be televised live on the Star Sports Network. 

Where to watch the live streaming of the IPL 2024 match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals?

The IPL 2024 match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals will be streamed live on the JioCinema app and website.

Batters - Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner, Atharva Taide

All-rounders - Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Sikander Raza

Bowlers - Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Kuldeep Yadav

DC Squad: Rishabh Pant (c), Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel, Kumar Kushagra, Ricky Bhui, Shai Hope, Prithvi Shaw, Yash Dhull, Swastik Chikara, David Warner, Pravin Dubey, Axar Patel, Mitchell Marsh, Lalit Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Sumit Kumar, Anrich Nortje, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Jhye Richardson, Rasikh Salem

PBKS squad: Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Matthew Short, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Sikandar Raza, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Harpreet Bhatia, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, Harshal Patel, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Shashank Singh, Tanay Thyagarajann, Prince Choudhary, Rilee Rossouw. 

Rishabh Pant is experiencing an entire gamut of emotions from nervousness to excitement as he gears up for his first competitive game in nearly 15 months when he leads Delhi Capitals in their IPL opener against Punjab Kings here on Saturday.

Coming back after a painstakingly long rehab following a horrific car crash in December, 2022, Pant feels grateful to be back on the 22-yard strip.

“Jittery, nervous, excited...all of it, but at the same time, just happy, being able to come back to professional cricket. I’m just looking forward to playing my first game tomorrow,” Pant said ahead of his team’s first match of the season.

The ace keeper-batter knows that it will take time to get back to his old self and he wants to take one day at a time with extended batting sessions at the DC nets as that will give him a better chance to execute his wide range of strokes.

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