New Delhi, April 27: In the 26th match of Vivo Indian Premier League (IPL 2018), Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and let the hosts Delhi Daredevils to bat first at Ferozshah Kotla ground in New Delhi. Delhi Daredevils came to bat with Gambhir missing the game, Shreyas Iyer had a big responsibility and rest of the team did not let him down as Delhi put a massive score of 219/4.
Prithvi Shaw gave a fantastic start to Delhi and completed his half-century. Shreyas Iyer was alongside building his inning and played a great knock, scoring 93 runs including 10 sixes.
Batting Second, KKR suffered early losses and could not find a stable partnership barring Andre Russell and Shubham Gill's brief knock. Delhi bowlers had a good day and they made the most of it. The run rate was jumping up and KKR could not do anything to bridge the gap. DD won the match by 60 runs and moved to seventh spot of the Vivo IPL points table.
Delhi Daredevils posted a total of 219-4, thanks to Prithvi Shaw and Shreyas Iyer innings. Kolkata Knight Riders batsmen could not face the pressure of the huge total and ended innings at 164-9
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Man sets fire to gas cylinder on truck in Kerala's Kottayam, held
Kottayam(Kerala) (PTI): A 33-year-old man climbed onto a parked truck carrying cooking gas cylinders and set fire to one of them near Thalayolaparambu in the small hours of Saturday, police said.
The incident occurred around 12.30 am, they said.
The fire and rescue personnel soon arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire, averting a major disaster.
According to police, the man is suspected to be under mental distress as he claimed that he was walking from Ernakulam to his home in Marangattupilly here when he saw the truck on the roadside.
An FIR under sections 329(3)(criminal trespass),324(2)(mischief),326(f)(mischief by injury, inundation, fire or explosive substance) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was lodged against him.
Police said that the man was formally arrested, but will be released on station bail as the offences he is accused of are bailable.
"His family is here at the station and he will be released to them," the officer said.
In the FIR, police have said that the man opened the seal of one of the gas cylinders and set fire to it with the knowledge that his act was dangerous to those living in the area.
According to the company transporting the cooking gas cylinders, it suffered a loss of Rs 2,300 in the incident.
