POWER PLAY UPDATE: KL Rahul steers Delhi Capitals v Punjab Kings

KL Rahul and Nitish Rana steered the Delhi Capitals to a daunting 68 for one in the Power Play after choosing to bat first in their Tata IPL match against the log-leading Punjab Kings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Saturday afternoon.

Sri Lankan opener Pathum Nissanka (11) sliced a drive against Arshdeep Singh straight up in the air for ‘keeper Prabhsimran Singh to take the catch, but Rahul was in prime form with four fours and two sixes to reach 35 from 16 balls after six overs with Nitish clipping and driving four boundaries in his unbeaten 22 from 13 deliveries.

MATCH REPORT TO FOLLOW....

Delhi Capitals: Pathum Nissanka, KL Rahul (wkt), Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel (captain), Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T.Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar

Impact subs: Vipraj Nigam, Karun Nair, Dushmantha Chameera, Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi Dar

Punjab Kings: Prabhsimran Singh (wkt), Priyanch Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Impact subs: Nehal Wadhera, Harpreet Brar, Suryanth Shedge, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod