PUNE: Mayank Agarwal (68) and Yuvraj Singh (55) helped Delhi Daredevils beat Kings XI Punjab by five wickets to enlist their first win of the eighth season of the Indian Premier League the previous evening.

Delhi pursued down the 166-run focus in 19.5 overs, with five wickets to extra.

Anureet Singh took two sequential wickets (Yuvraj and Mayank) in the penultimate over to make the match extremely intriguing and tight at last.

Mayank hustled to his 50 off 37 balls to help Delhi snap their 11-match losing streak in the IPL.

He smacked two sixes and seven fours in his 48-ball raid. The Delhi opener likewise included a match-winning 106 runs for the third wicket with Yuvraj.

Yuvraj crushed three sixes and five limits in his 39-ball brisk flame thump. He hustled to his 50 off 33 balls.

Pursuing 166-run target, Kings XI lost Shreyas Iyer (6) right on time in the third over with the score perusing 23-1 in 2.5 overs.

Mayank included significant 30 runs for the second wicket with JP Duminy (21) preceding the Delhi captain was run out.

Pacers Anureet (2-33), Sandeep Sharma (1-30) and spinner Axar Patel (1-28) were the wicket-takers for Kings XI Punjab.

Prior, Virender Sehwag top-scored with a 41-ball 47 as Punjab posted an aggressive 165 for seven against Delhi.

Organization

The highlight of the Kings XI innings was the 71-run organization for the second wicket between opener Sehwag and Wriddhiman Saha (39) after Murali Vijay was out for 19.

Sehwag hit four limits and two sixes in his valuable thump. He hit a six and two fours off progressive balls knocked down some pins by Delhi head spinner Imran Tahir in the ninth over.

Sehwag was out in the 15th over after he tried for his second six in the same number of balls off Delhi skipper Jean-Paul Duminy just to gap out to Coulter-Nile.

Huge hitter Glenn Maxwell made 15 from only five balls with the assistance of two sixes while commander George Bailey contributed 19 off 11 conveyances. Youthful Axar Patel scored 13 from 10 balls.

For Delhi, leg-spinner Tahir got three wickets however he was extravagant yielding 43 runs while commander Jean-Paul Duminy sacked two. Amit Mishra and Angelo Mathews took a wicket each.

Duminy utilized upwards of seven bowlers in the Kings XI innings.

Brief scores:

Lords XI Punjab 165-7 (Sehwag 47; Tahir 3-43, Duminy 2-16) lost to Delhi Daredevils 169-5 in 19.5 overs (Agarwal 68, Yuvraj 55)

by five wickets