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Jason Roy of the Delhi Daredevils plays a shot during match nine of the Vivo Indian Premier League 2018 (IPL 2018) between the Mumbai Indians and the Delhi Daredevils held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on the 14th April 2018. Photo by: Vipin Pawar / IPL/ SPORTZPICS

Jason Roy starred with the bat, scoring an unbeaten 91 to help Delhi Daredevils defeat Mumbai Indians by seven wickets.

Set a daunting 195, Delhi needed a quickfire start and Jason Roy provided them the perfect start. The England opener took the attack to the opposition while Gautam Gambhir played the role of second fiddle. As a result, Delhi raced away to fifty in just 50 overs. Mustafizur Rahman then allowed Mumbai to claw their way back by dismissing Gambhir.

However, it did not bring any respite for the hosts as Rishabh Pant tore them apart. The youngster smashed 47 off just 25 to keep the chase on track. In the meantime, Roy completed his fifty. Krunal Pandya broke the stand between Roy and Pant by dismissing the latter.

Glenn Maxwell also started in the same fashion, hitting a four and a six before falling after Hardik Pandya took a blinder. The scoreboard at that time was reading 135 for 3 in 13.2 overs.

Roy and Shreyas Iyer then took Delhi close. They were also aided by some poor fielding by the hosts. The equation was finally down to 11 off the final over. Roy then hit a four and a six off the first two balls to all but seal the game.  Delhi eventually reached the target on the last ball.

Earlier in the game, a blistering start from Evin Lewis and Suryakumar Yadav propelled Mumbai to a daunting 194 for 7.

Sent in to bat first, Mumbai were off to a flyer with Yadav and Lewis coming all out all guns blazing against a hapless Delhi Daredevils attack. They fired on all cylinders right from the start as Mumbai reached 50 in just the fourth over. At the end of the powerplay, the scoreboard was reading a daunting 84 for no loss. It took Mumbai only 8.3 overs to enter the triple figures.

Rahul Tewatia then dismissed both of them in quick succession to reduce Mumbai to 109 for 2 and pull back things for Delhi. However, Ishan Kishan played a quickfire innings off 44 off just 22 to give Mumbai the momentum back.

But the pendulum soon swung in Delhi’s favour after Dan Christian took two wickets off consecutive balls. He first castled Kishan (44 off 22) before cleaning up Kieron Pollard for a duck. Mumbai kept on losing wickets at regular intervals and as a result failed to end strongly.

Here is how Twitter reacted to the innings:

https://twitter.com/TroluKejri/status/985113154702028800

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