IPL 2023: Jos and Jaiswal show

Delhi Capitalsrsquo Summer of Horrors continued as they crashed to a 57run loss against Rajasthan Royals completing a hattrick of onesided defeats in this edition of Indian Premier League here on SaturdayWhile Yashasvi Jaiswal reaffirmed his status as the brightest talent among Indiarsquos gennext batters with a superb 60 Jos Buttler showed no signs of finger pain en route a chiselled 79 in Rajasthan Royalsrsquo challenging 1994 after David Warner committed a tactical harakiri by opting to field on a batting shirtfrontThe Australian couldnrsquot be blamed as his pencilthin Indian batting unit was put on its haunches as they managed only 1429 in the end after being outbatted by the two Royals openers with Shimron Hetmyer adding a bit of icing on the cakeRR players celebrate a wicket on SaturdayIn the Royalsrsquo innings there were 23 boundaries and seven sixes while DC in their entire innings failed to hit a single six on what was considered to be batting paradiseThe Royals thus earned their second win in three games having lost a high scoring thriller against Punjab Kings at this very venueDuck for struggling PrithviTrent Boult 329 in 4 overs then did what he does for a living He got one to move a shade squaring up Prithvi Shaw 0 and exposing his poor technique once again The very next ball jagged back enough and found Manish Pandey 0 rooted to his crease for a plumb leg before decision There was not much left in the game after that kind of horrendous startIn three games Shaw has been dismissed in three distinct fashionsmdashraw pace in the opener welldisguised short ball rearing up in the second and old fashioned seam and swing in the thirdHe would himself know that he has now fallen way behind in national teamrsquos pecking order after this inept performances game after gameSkipper David Warner 65 off 55 balls scored his second halfcentury in three games but has been very lsquoUnWarnerrsquo like where he has never looked like taking the game away from opposition Once Lalit Yadav 38 off 24 balls was dismissed by Boult in his second spell the humiliation was written all over Barsapara StadiumAlso readIPL 2023 Liam explosive Livingstone to join Punjab Kings in three daysExpensive KhaleelEarlier it was a case of lsquoAfternoon showing fate of eveningrsquo as Jaiswal hammered a hapless Khaleel Ahmed 031 in 2 overs into submission by crunching five boundaries in the opening over The fate of DC bowlers could have been sealed in the first six overs which yielded 68 runs along with 14 boundaries but Kuldeep Yadav 131 in 4 overs Mukesh Kumar 236 in 4 overs and Rovman Powell 118 in 2 overs did well to control the damage to some extent at the backendBrief scoresRR 1994 J Buttler 79 Y Jaiswal 60 S Hetmyer 39 M Kumar 236 beat DC 1429 D Warner 65 L Yadav 38 Y Chahal 327 T Boult 329 R Ashwin 225 by 57 runsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever