IPL 2017: Match 9: Highlights: Pune (RPS) Vs Delhi (DD)

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Pune, April 11: Riding on young Sanju Samson's maiden ton, Delhi Daredevils (DD) registered their first victory of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2017, as they annihilated Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) by a whopping 97 runs here on Tuesday (April 11).

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Chasing a daunting target of 206 in 20 overs, Pune succumbed to the pressure of a massive total and were bundled out for 108 in 16.1 overs.

Samson scored 102 off just 63 balls to help Delhi post a whopping total against Pune side sans Steve Smith. Pune now face a daunting task of chasing the massive target.

A brilliant cameo from Chris Morris, who scored 38 from 9 deliveries, helped Delhi go past 200. Chris Morris blazed his way to 38 off a mere nine balls, helping the visitors amass 45 runs runs in the last two overs of the innings with a flurry of sixes and fours.

In reply, Pune's innings fell apart within the first 10 overs as they were reeling at 54 for five.

Samson got to his maiden T20 century with a straight six off Adam Zampa in the Daredevils innings' penultimate over. In all, Samson struck eight boundaries and five sixes, while Morris found the fence four times and cleared it thrice during his cameo.

Here are the highlights from the match between Delhi and Pune:

# Ajinkya Rahane led an IPL side as a captain after playing 97 matches in the tournament, most by any.

# Sanju Samson scored his IPL's first hundred off just 62 balls.

# Sanju Samson's 102 is the first ton of this league.

# Samson became the second youngest batsman, after Manish Pandey, to have slammed a ton in the IPL.

# Chris Morris scored 38* off 9 deliveries and played a brilliant cameo

# Morris scored at an incredible strike rate of 422.22 against Pune.

# The longest Samson has batted in an innings in IPL - 49* balls - tonight Previous: 48 balls DD vs MI in Delhi in 2016.

# 87 was Samson's highest T20 score, before this match, against Jharkhand in the 2015-16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in 2015.

# Imran Tahir performed brilliantly and claimed the purple cap once again.

# Last time DD scored over 200 was way back in 2012. In all, Daredevils have only posted three 200-plus totals.

# 76 runs scored by Daredevils in the last four overs - the third-highest in the last four overs of an IPL innings. The top two scores belong to RCB - 89 and 77.

# 45 runs conceded by Adam Zampa are his worst figures in T20 cricket.

# Mayank Agarwal has gone past 30 only ten times in 47 IPL innings.

# The 97-run victory was Delhi's biggest win in terms of margin of runs.

# Delhi skipper Zaheer Khan picked up 3/20, while leg- spinner Amit Mishra had 3/11.

# Mayank Agarwal was top scorer for Pune with his 20-run-knock.

# All Pune wickets were dismissed in catch out. This happened for the first time in an IPL match.

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