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Jadeja hit a six in the final over which yielded 11 runs and remained not out to see his side set Delhi exactly 150 for a win. Raina’s dismissal led to Karthik and new man in Jadeja playing cautiously for a while before they began to look for their shots. But it was not McCullum’s day and the New Zealander was cleaned up by Zaheer in the third over.Kishan run out 2. Put into bat, the Lions, who lost their previous match after a spell of victories, made a disastrous start as they were reduced to 24/3 in the fourth over before Karthik’s 43-ball innings, which had five fours, took them to just below 150-mark at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium. Raina st de Kock b Mishra 24, D. The home side captain was completely beaten and Quinton de Kock effected a regular stumping. Karthik reached to his fifty with a boundary but the next ball he was out of the bowling of Mohammed Shami, with the delivery clipping the bails. But just as it seemed the Lions have reached to a position of strength from where they can accelerate towards a challenging total, they lost Raina off a fine delivery from leggie Amit Mishra.

The Lions were 24/3 then and they were looking down the barrel. Extras: (lb3, w3) 6. Smith c Morris b Nadeem 15, B.Dinesh Karthik (53) struck a solid half-century to steer Gujarat Lions from a woeful start to a respectable 149/7 in their IPL match against Delhi Daredevils here on Tuesday. Finch c Pant b Nadeem 5, S. Captain Suresh Raina (24) played his part in reviving the innings with a 51 run partnership with Karthik while Ravindra Jadeja chipped in with a useful unbeaten 36 towards the end. For Daredevils, Shahbaz Nedeem took two wickets while Zaheer Khan, Chris Morris, Mohammed Shami and Amit Mishra got one each. McCullum b Zaheer 1.Smith hit it straight to long-on fielder Chris Morris while five balls later, Finch, making it to the playing eleven for the first time after playing Lions’ first three games, top-edged to Rishabh Pant at short fine leg while looking to slog sweep across the line. Jadeja (not out) 36, J. The next over, the Lions lost two wickets with Dwayne Smith China Rubber Screw (15) and Aaron Finch perishing to Nadeem.

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