Delhi Capitals (DC) captain Shreyas Iyer called on his team mates to build on the good start to the season. DC scored 228/4 on Saturday and beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 18 runs in another high scoring thriller at the Sharjah International Cricket Stadium.
Shreyas led the way with an unbeaten 88 off 38 balls for which he was declared player of the match. "We really have a good platform and we have to be insatiable with our work ethics and keep getting better game after game from here on," said Shreyas in the post-match presentation ceremony.
Shreyas managed to keep up the pace that was being maintained by openers Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan before him, who ensured that DC cross the 50-run mark in the first five overs. He hit seven fours and six sixes in his innings.
DC were on top for much of the KKR innings until Eoin Morgan and Rahul Tripathi's blistering 78-run stand for the seventh wicket brought KKR back into the game in the death overs. Shreyas, however, said that DC were confident of closing out the game.
"We were confident we had two good overs left, but anything could happen, it is a funny game is T20s and especially here in Sharjah," he said.
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