Delhi: South Delhi served a display of sensational batting to the spectators in the Delhi Premier League with a mammoth total of 308/5. The team clocked the highest score in franchise cricket and also inked their second-highest total in T20 cricket.
Skipper Ayush Badoni chose to bat after winning the toss against but the team suffered an early blow while batting first. South Delhi was reduced to 13/1 but Priyansh Arya and Ayush Badoni joined forces after that to add 286 runs for the second wicket which became the highest partnership for any wicket. Priyansh played a knock of 120 runs while Badoni orchestrated a knock of 165 runs. Their partnership helped the team post 308/5 on the scoreboard and the inning broke several records.
South Delhi posted highest total in the franchise cricket surpassing Sunrisers Hyderabad's previous record of 287/3 in the recent edition. Also, the duo of Priyansh and Badoni's partnership of 286 runs for the second wicket became the highest partnership in the T20 cricket for any wicket. L Yamamoto-Lake and K Kadowaki-Fleming Japan had the previous record to their name with a stand of 258 runs for the opening wicket in the match against China.
Priyansh Arya Hits 6 Sixes
Priyansh joined the elite club of batters hitting six sixes in the T20 cricket during the game as he smashed a maximum on each delivery bowled by Manan Bhardwaj in the 12th over. He sent the first ball of the over beyond the boundary fence at long-off. He then hit a six over deep mid-wicket and followed it with a big hit over long-on. He also became the third Indian to hit six sixes in an over after Yuvraj Singh and Ravi Shastri. Also, he became the fourth batter to hit six maximums in domestic league.
Earlier, Ross Whitely (2017), Hazratullah Zazai (2018) and Leo Carter (2020) had hit sixes in a single over in domestic T20 leagues.