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DC vs RCB, IPL 2023: Phil Salt Guides Delhi Capitals To 7-Wicket Win Over Royal Challengers Bangalore

Phil Salt came up with an outrageous display of ball striking as Delhi Capitals kept themselves alive in the Indian Premier League with a thumping seven-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday. Virat Kohli (55 off 56) completed his 'homecoming' with a landmark fifty before Mahipal Lomror (54 not out off 29) came up with a career-best knock to take Royal Challengers Bangalore to 181 for four. Needing to win every game from here on to have a shot at a play-off berth, Delhi's overseas batters played fearlessly to gun down the total in 16.4 overs. Besides Salt's sensational 87 off 45 balls, David Warner (22 off 14), Mitchell Marsh (26 off 17) and Rilee Rossouw (29 not out off 21) produced timely cameos.

Watch: Riled Up Mohammed Siraj Gets Into Argument With DC Star, David Warner Joins In

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) pacer Mohammed Siraj lost his cool at Delhi Capitals wicketkeeper-batter Phil Salt during their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday. The incident happened in the penultimate over of the powerplay during DC's chase. Salt hit Siraj for three boundaries on the trot, with two of them going all the distance. In order to bounce back, Siraj bowled a short-pitched delivery to Salt, who threw his bat at it, only for the umpire to call it a wide.

Killer in My Family: How Lee Ford became Britain's most evil step-dad

Holding a 2ft length of rope he'd found in the garage Lee Ford walked up behind his wife Lesley and strangled her to death. Over the course of the next 24 hours the jealous and controlling killer would go on to murder his four step-children in exactly the same gruesome manner.

Pakistan Will Come For WC If BCCI Fulfills This Written Guarantee: Report

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi will seek a "written guarantee" from BCCI supremo Jay Shah about Indian team's participation in 2025 ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan before committing on their national team playing its ODI World Cup games in India, later this year. The 2023 World Cup will be played from October 5 and BCCI have zeroed in on Ahmedabad (for India game), Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata as possible venues for Babar Azam's side. However with ACC under chairmanship of Jay Shah not confirming the proposed 'Hybrid Model' for the upcoming Asia Cup, where India played its matches in UAE and Pakistan play their games in their home country, Sethi apparently has been advised to play the hardball.

Cheteshwar Pujara Joins Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid In Elite List With Another Ton For Sussex

Cheteshwar Pujara continued his brilliant run of form in country cricket as the veteran India batter slammed another century for Sussex. Pujara looked in fine form as he scored 136 against Worcestershire and in the process, achieved a massive milestone in first-class cricket. He is now part of an elite list that boasts of names like Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Wasim Jaffer, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. Gavaskar is leading the list with 25,834 runs from 348 matches with Tendulkar second with 25,396 runs from 310 games. Dravid currently third in the list.

IPL 2023: Virat Kohli Magic Continues, Becomes First Cricketer Ever To Achieve This Feat

Virat Kohli added a massive milestone to his already illustrious career as the Royal Challengers Bangalore star became the first batsman ever to score 7000 runs in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Kohli reached the coveted milestone during the IPL 2023 encounter against Delhi Capitals in a season which has seen multiple superb knocks from him. Such has been Kohli's domination in the tournament that he is almost 500 runs ahead of the second-placed Shikhar Dhawan and around 900 runs ahead of DC's David Warner who occupies the third spot currently.

Rohit Sharma's Bad Patch Continues As CSK Break 'Chepauk Jinx' vs MI After 13 Years

Rohit Sharma's barren run with willow continued as Chennai Super Kings broke a 13-year-old home jinx against Mumbai Indians with an easy six-wicket victory in an IPL match, in Chepauk on Saturday. The Indian skipper's horrid run in IPL since last edition continued as he failed to trouble the scorer for the second match in succession with MI scoring a below par 139 for 8 against an inspired performance from the CSK pace and seam troika of Deepak Chahar (2/18 in 4 overs), Man of the match Matheesha Pathirana (3/15 in 4 overs) and Tushar Deshpande (2/25 in 4 overs).

IPL 2023: "Was Outnumbered" - Why MS Dhoni's Decision To Bat First vs Mumbai Indians Was Overruled

MS Dhoni is considered to be one of the best captains in world cricket but the Chennai Super Kings skipper revealed that not all of his decisions are always followed without any resistance. During the Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Mumbai Indians, Dhoni wanted to bat first keeping the conditions in mind but he was completely overruled by the team management who were in favour of bowling. Dhoni had to relent and he decided to bowl first after winning the toss. It turned out to be the right ball as his side went on to win the match quite comfortably at the Chepauk Stadium.

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DC vs RCB, IPL 2023: Phil Salt Guides Delhi Capitals To 7-Wicket Win Over Royal Challengers Bangalore

Watch: Riled Up Mohammed Siraj Gets Into Argument With DC Star, David Warner Joins In

Killer in My Family: How Lee Ford became Britain's most evil step-dad

Pakistan Will Come For WC If BCCI Fulfills This Written Guarantee: Report

Cheteshwar Pujara Joins Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid In Elite List With Another Ton For Sussex

IPL 2023: Virat Kohli Magic Continues, Becomes First Cricketer Ever To Achieve This Feat

Rohit Sharma's Bad Patch Continues As CSK Break 'Chepauk Jinx' vs MI After 13 Years

IPL 2023: "Was Outnumbered" - Why MS Dhoni's Decision To Bat First vs Mumbai Indians Was Overruled