Rishabh Pant made a blunder during KKR batting, which played a significant role in Delhi Capitals’ defeat by 106 runs. Batting first, KKR posted 272/7 in 20 overs, with Sunil Narine amassing 85 runs, laced with 7 fours and 7 sixes.
Narine would have walked back to the dressing room had Rishabh Pant taken a DRS after the umpire didn’t favour Delhi. The southpaw edged the ball, which Rishabh Pant caught. Mitchell Marsh, who was fielding in the thirty-yard circle old the skipper there was some noise, but Pant continued to discuss for a long time, and the allotted time for taking a DRS was over.
Narine had not even touched 30 when that incident happened.
When Pant was asked about his mistake after the contest, he blamed the giant screen:
“A lot was happening at that time. There was some problem with the giant screen, and we couldn’t see the timer and ran out of time to call for DRS.”
Pant made another mistake during the contest when he declined the bowler's request to go for DRS after Shreyas Iyer nicked the ball and Pant caught it. The replays confirmed that the bowler's request was correct, and as a result, the KKR captain scored 18 runs off 11 balls. At the time, Iyer had only scored four runs.