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Greater Noida, March 1 (Hindustan Reporter) The first season of the Indian Veteran Premier League (IVPL) is more than half completed. On Thursday, VVIP Uttar Pradesh secured its ticket to the semi-finals after registering its fourth win. In the 13th match, Red Carpet Delhi registered its third win by defeating Rajasthan Legends by 27 runs.
Playing first in this match, Red Carpet Delhi scored a huge score of 247 runs after losing 3 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In this league, Delhi batsman Richard Levi scored his second century of the season. Former Sri Lankan legend Asela Gunaratne also played an excellent half-century.
Richard Levi faced 53 balls in his century and scored a brilliant 116 runs. His innings included 10 fours and 8 sixes. Apart from him, Gunaratne scored unbeaten 85 runs on 53 balls and hit 6 fours and as many sixes in his innings.
Delhi's start was not good and Sreesanth clean bowled captain Herschelle Gibbs on the very first ball. From here Bipul Sharma (32 runs 19 balls) took the innings forward with Levi. Both added 81 runs for the second wicket. Then Seekkuge Prasanna took the wicket of Bipul and Gunaratne came to the crease. From here there was a partnership of 155 runs for the third wicket between him and Richard Levi. Thanks to this, Delhi scored a huge score of 247 runs.
In reply, Rajasthan Legends, who set out to chase the difficult target of 248 runs, had a slow start. Bheraram and Seekkuge Prasanna scored only 24 runs in the first 3 overs. Kapil Rana gave the first blow to the team on the first ball of the fourth over and sent Bheraram to the pavilion on the score of 4. After this, Ashley Nurse also dismissed Prasanna on the score of 17 on the first ball of the fifth over. Angelo Perera made a fast start as soon as he arrived and scored 27 runs in the first 8 balls. Thanks to this, the team scored 57 runs after losing 2 wickets in the powerplay.
After this, in the 9th over, Vikrant gave the third blow to Rajasthan. He took the wicket of Angelo Perera (46 runs on 17 balls). After 10 overs, Rajasthan Legends had scored 99 runs for 3 wickets. The team needed 149 runs to win in the last 10 overs, which seemed quite difficult. Rajesh Bishnoi played a half-century and held one end. But the team's wickets kept falling at regular intervals.
Rajasthan's score till 15 overs was 140 runs for 6 wickets. In the last 5 overs the team needed 108 runs to win. However, Rajasthan team could only score 220 runs after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match by 27 runs. Bishnoi played an inning of 98 runs in 46 balls. He may not have been able to help his team win the match but he won hearts.
After this match, one more league match each of Rajasthan Legends and Red Carpet Delhi is left. Rajasthan will face Mumbai Champions in the afternoon match today. Red Carpet Delhi team will face Telangana Tigers in the evening match. Both the semi-finals of the league will be held on Saturday, while the final match will be played on Sunday, March 3.