When players like Dhoni, Gayle, Kl Rahul, Rayudu, de Villiers were firing for their respective teams it was not a good situation for Delhi as their team's performance was not up to the mark. In 6 matches they only registered 1 win. Gautam Gambhir scored 55 in the first but cannot score runs in the next 5 matches. Thus he took the responsibility of his team's losses and took some big decisions like on 25th April he stepped down from the captaincy and if get selected in the playing eleven he will not take match fees, as it can be said that he will play for free.
Shreyas Iyer took the mantle of Delhi from Gambhir. He played his first match as a captain against KKR on 27th April and the fortunes of Delhi changed overnight. He scored 93 off 40 balls and Delhi posted a total of 219/4 and KKR could only score 164/9 and Delhi won the match by 55 runs. But this is only a small part of that day. The main attraction of that day was the batting of two World Cup-winning U-19 batsmen. Famous from his school days, Delhi Daredevils batsman Prithvi Shaw scored 62 off 42 balls with the help of 7-fours and 2-sixes in his second IPL match, he scored 22 off 10 balls in his debut match. While Shubman Gill of KKR scored 37 runs off 29 balls with 3-fours and 1-six. He was the only Indian player in the U-19 World Cup in 2018 to score a hundred. If he did not get run out the result of the match could be little different. Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar was in all praise for this youngster's batting during the commentary, he was mesmerised by Shubman's batting technique and his flawless hittings. Let us hope these young stars can make it big in the International Arena. And let's see if any of them get selected for the upcoming one-off test versus Afghanistan.
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