Axar Patel exults after removing Rishi Dhawan.
Earlier, Axar Patel had combined with Kuldeep Yadav and accounted for 4 crucial wickets, giving away just 28 runs which led to a Punjab collapse.
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Delhi Capitals and India spinner Axar Patel added a new feather in his cap. He joined Ravindra Jadeja to become the second left-arm spinner to pick 100 IPL wickets. Axar achieved the feat against PBKS where he registered excellent figures of 4-0-14-2. Earlier Jadeja was the first left-arm spinner to achieve a hundred wickets; he already has 132 wickets in 210 matches.
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Axar got rid of Punjab skipper Mayank Agarwal and celebrated unknowing to the fact that he has reached an important milestone; this was also his 121st match. Axar Patel also became the 17th bowler overall to get to 100 wickets in the IPL. The Gujarat left-arm spinner made his debut in 2014 and has been a consistent performer since. In IPL 2022, Axar has picked up only 6 wickets in 12 matches. The spinner first got rid of Agarwal with a beauty and then returned to remove Rishi Dhawan when a partnership was just around the corner.
Against Punjab, he combined with Kuldeep Yadav and accounted for 4 crucial wickets, giving away just 28 runs which lead to a Punjab collapse. Mitchell Marsh scored a masterful 49-ball 63 while Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav shared four wickets between themselves and Shardul Thakur picked his career-best IPL stats of 4/36 as Delhi Capitals defeated Punjab Kings by 17 runs at the DY Patil Stadium on Monday .
After Marsh carried Delhi to 159/7, despite two three-wicket hauls for Arshdeep Singh and Liam Livingstone, Thakur, Axar and Kuldeep triggered a collapse on a slow and low pitch which saw Punjab lose six wickets before reaching the half-way mark of the chase. Though Jitesh Sharma tried his best with a 34-ball 44, Punjab could make only 142/9 in their 20 overs.
Post-powerplay, Axar grabbed his 100th IPL wicket with a length ball around off-stump skidding into castle Mayank Agarwal through the gate. Livingstone danced down the pitch to dispatch Kuldeep over long-on. But he completely missed the googly and was easily stumped by Pant.
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