Noor Ahmad, on Wednesday (April 24), made an early impact in the ongoing game between Delhi Capitals and Gujarat Titans at the Arun Jaitley Stadium even before bowling his first over of the game.
The Afghanistan spinner took two catches in the Delhi Capitals’ fourth innings to help his team get rid of both openers. He first took a regulation catch at deep square leg to send back the dangerous Jake Fraser-McGurk before producing an absolutely outstanding effort two balls later to dismiss Prithvi Shaw.
Sandeep Warrier bowled a short delivery and Prithvi Shaw decided to play a pull shot. Without much space to execute the shot, Shaw did not get a good connection with the ball and ended up missing. However, it looked like the ball would land well in front of Noor Ahmad and Shaw would be safe.
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The GT player, however, had other ideas. Noor Ahmad attacked from deep backward square leg and dived sideways to catch it just inches off the ground. With the timely dive he managed to get his fingers under the ball. The on-field umpires had to send the decision up and after a while the third umpire deemed it a legitimate catch by Noor Ahmad.
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Noor Ahmad takes a nice catch in the deep as #DC loses its first two matches!
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Prithvi Shaw returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs off seven balls. Before him, Warrier had returned Fraser-McGurk. The in-form Australian took the lead and raced to 23 runs off 13 balls with the help of two fours and as many sixes before hitting one straight to Noor Ahmad.
After losing the first two games, DC also lost Shai Hope on the power play. Warrier was the bowler once again as he returned the West Indies star for 5 runs in the 6th over. At the time of writing, DC was 44 for 3.