IPL 2016, Match 49: RPS vs DD - As it happened...

Delhi Daredevils' batting line-up failed to put up a competitive total on the board.

New Delhi: Delhi Daredevils' IPL campaign suffered a huge blow as they were beaten by MS Dhoni's Rising Pune Supergiants.

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RPS Innings

That's it. Match 49 was called off and RPS were declared winners by 19 runs via D/L method.

Over 11 | Score 76/1

Shami was handed the ball by Zaheer. Some big hits by Rahane in that over. A six and a four. It's raining again. Players are off the field.

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Over 10 | Score 62/1

Mishra continued. Brilliant over from the leg-spinner, conceding just 2 runs. He is the key for DD now.

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Over 9 | Score 60/1

Coulter-Nile continued. The match resumed after a brief rain interruption. No overs lost.

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Over 8 | Score 53/1

Amit Mishra bowled the 8th over. Rahane pulled the short ball to Shami at long-on. Shockingly, the pacer allowed the ball to slip through his legs for a four. Mishra is livid!

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Over 7 | Score 46/1

Coulter-Nile bowled the first over after the powerplay. Good comeback from the Australian pacer after an expensive first over. Just 2 came off it.

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Over 6 | Score 44/1

Morris continued. After a good start, the South African conceded two fours towards the end of his over. One off a free-hit and another thanks to a glorious back foot punch through cover by Rahane.

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Over 5 | Score 33/1

Zaheer continued. Solid comeback from the DD skipper after being hit for three fours in previous over. Just 1 run came off his third.

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Over 4 | Score 32/1

Morris into the attack. Khawaja sliced the fourth ball straight to backward point. Yet again, the Aussie failed to capitalize on his start.

U Khawaja c Iyer b Morris 19 (13b)

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Over 3 | Score 30/0

Zaheer continued. Khawaja attacked the left-arm pacer in that over. Three glorious boundaries added to the Australian's account.

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Over 2 | Score 16/0

Coulter-Nile bowled the second. Khawaja clipped the second delivery off his pads to the backward square leg boundary for his first four. Rahane capped off the over with a hit over the covers for another boundary.

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Over 1 | Score 4/0

Zaheer Khan opened the DD attack. The left-arm pacer hit the right lengths and offered no room to RPS openers.

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DD Innings

Over 20 | Score 121/6

Perera bowled the final over of DD innings. The visitors finished with 121/6.

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Over 19 | Score 99/6

Dinda bowled the penultimate over. Duminy scooped the second ball straight into the hands of Pathan at short fine leg. Morrris hit the fifth ball over point for a much-needed boundary.

JP Duminy c Pathan b Dinda 14 (14b)

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Over 18 | Score 91/5

Ashwin continued. Morris helped the first ball down to the fine leg boundary for a four.

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Over 17 | Score 81/5

Zampa bowled his final over. The leg-spinner capped off his spell with a fine over. He has been the main man for MS here.

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Over 16 | Score 77/5

Ashwin continued. No big hits in that over as well. The off-spinner has done his job today.

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Over 15 | Score 73/5

Zampa continued. The leg-spinner got his third wicket, as he trapped Nair lbw. DD in trouble.

K Nair lbw b Zampa 41 (43b)

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Over 14 | Score 68/4

Ashwin continued. Another excellent over from the off-spinner. DD need to pick up the scoring rate now.

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Over 13 | Score 62/4

Zampa was brought back. The leg-spinner yet again picked up a wicket on his last ball. Pant's slog was caught at long-off by Perera.

R Pant c Perera b Zampa 4 (9b)

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Over 12 | Score 57/3

Ashwin bowled the 12th. The off-spinner started off with a tidy over. Just three runs came off it.

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Over 11 | Score 54/3

Pathan continued. Nair pulled the second ball to the square leg boundary for a four.

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Over 10 | Score 49/3

Adam Zampa bowled the tenth. The leg-spinner had Samson stumped off his last ball with a classic delivery. Superb stuff from the Aussie.

S Samson st Dhoni b Zampa 10 (13b)

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Over 9 | Score 42/2

Pathan continued. Nair rolled his wrists and pulled the fourth ball in front of square leg for a four.

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Over 8 | Score 32/2

Perera continued. The right-armer followed up his first over with another tidy one. The DD batsmen have found it hard to score off the Sri Lankan. Just two came off that over.

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Over 7 | Score 30/2

Irfan Pathan was handed the ball by MS Dhoni. The left-arm pacer kept the pressure on DD batsmen with a tight first over. Just 2 came off it.

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Over 6 | Score 28/2

Perera into the attack. Solid start from the Sri Lanka all-round. Just three came off his first over.

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Over 5 | Score 25/2

Dinda continued. After being smoked for back-to-back fours by Nair, Dinda made a fine comeback with the wicket of Iyer.The right-hander failed to control his pull shot and was caught by Khawaja at deep square leg.

S Iyer c Khawaja b Dinda 8 (10b)

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Over 4 | Score 15/1

Chahar continued. The debutant conceded two boundaries in that over. One came from the bat of Iyer, other scored by Nair.

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Over 3 | Score 4/1

Dinda continued. The pacer's full and fast first delivery tapped de Kock lbw. Karun Nair is in. Wicket and a maiden for Dinda.

Q de Kock lbw b Dinda 2 (8b)

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Over 2 | Score 4/0

Chahar bowled the second over. Good stuff from the pacer there. No width offered to the batsmen.

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Over 1 | Score 2/0

Dinda opened the RPS attack. Brilliant first over from the India pacer, conceding just 2 runs. DD openers got off the mark with singles.

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Toss and team news

MS Dhoni won the toss and invited DD to bat first. Zaheer says he's happy to bat first.

RPS XI: A Rahane, U Khawaja, G Bailey, S Tiwary, MS Dhoni, T Perera, I Pathan, R Ashwin, A Zampa, D Chahar, A Dinda​

​DD XI: S Iyer, Q de Kock, K Nair, S Samson, R Pant, JP Duminy, C Morris, A Mishra, M Shami, N Coulter-Nile, Z Khan

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