IPL 2017: Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson blitzkrieg crush GL's play-off hopes

Rishabh Pant's 97 off 43 and Sanju Samson's 31-ball 61 announce arrival of two young heroes

“What a player,” Tony Greig would have exclaimed if he witnessed Thursday night’s carnage by two supremely talented young Indian batsmen in Delhi Daredevils’ do-or-die Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Gujarat Lions on a blustery evening at the capital’s Ferozshah Kotla.

Kotla witnessed a run fest on Thursday as Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson clobbered the Gujarat Lions attack and set the platform for Delhi Daredevils’ highest even run chase. Before this, only once had a team chased more than 209 runs to win an IPL match. When Delhi stepped out to chase a mammoth total of 209 at