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Mumbai: Ajinkya Rahane (91 in 54 balls) and Karun Nair (61 from 38 balls) helped Rajasthan Royals (RR) register their 6th win of the season, beating Delhi Daredevils (DD) by 14 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2015 experience at the Brabourne Stadium here on Sunday.(Scorecard | Highlights)

Riding on a 113-run association by Rahane and Nair for the second wicket, Royals posted a testing 189/2 in 20 overs.

In answer, Daredevils were never near to coordinating the abilities showed by Royals and in the long run finished their innings at 175/7 in 20 overs. Captain J.P. Duminy was the top scorer for Daredevils with 56 runs off 39 balls.

With the annihilation, Delhi endured their fifth misfortune in the competition.

Prior losing the hurl and put into bat, Rajasthan got off to a humble begin, with openers Rahane and Shane Watson requiring some investment to get settled in the center.

Anyhow, with couple of overs bowled, they tackled the Daredevils playing heaping up group’s initial fifty in only 6.2 overs.

Anyhow, as captain Watson was looking to get settled, an amazing conveyance by Angelo Mathews got him got by the wicketkeeper for 21 off 24 balls.

His wicket didn’t put the brakes on the scoring as Rahane took the reins from that point on to strike the ball to all parts of the recreation center.

Approaching batsman, Nair excessively hung on effortlessly, making it impossible to give great organization to Rahane.

The team exploited some poor fielding by the guests to put 100 runs on the board in the 14th over.

Rahane struck nine fours and three sixes, though his accomplice Nair hit six limits and two sixes.

The pair raised their 100-run association for the second wicket in only 63 balls.

With his awesome innings, Rahane supplanted Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner in the IPL 2015 driving run scorers list with 430 runs.

Thrill seekers dropped three gets in the innings. Gurinder Sandhu and Saurabh Tiwary dropped Rahane and Nair individually and later on Amit Mishra and Zaheer Khan impacted and dropped Rahane.

For Delhi, Mathews was the pick of the bowlers, getting one wicket and completing with figures of 4-0-27-1 yet different bowlers – Zaheer Khan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Amit Mishra, Gurwinder Sandhu – all released overwhelming runs.

Pursuing a testing score of 189, Delhi got off to a most noticeably bad conceivable begin with losing both the openers – Mayank Agarwal (11) and Shreyas Iyer (9) – inside five overs.

Approaching batsman Yuvraj Singh too didn’t keep going long, scoring only 22 off 18 balls. Angelo Mathews (16) and Kedar Jadav (11) additionally left in space of two overs.

This made it more troublesome for Daredevils to pursue the gigantic target. Captain Duminy attempted his best, however looking to up the scoring rate, was gotten by Dhawal Kulkarni off the rocking the bowling alley of James Faulkner.

With the rejection of Duminy it searched all over for Delhi as wickets fell in bunches.

For Rajasthan, James Faulkner was the lift of the bowlers grabbing two wickets and completing with figures of 4-0-22-2. Shane Watson completed with 4-1-25-1. Dhawal Kulkarni tried for runs however grabbed two wickets. Stuart Binny likewise picked two wickets in his two overs.

Brief Score: Rajasthan Royals 189/2 in 20 overs (Ajinkya Rahane 91 not out, Karun Nair 61; Angelo Mathews 1/27, Nathan Coulter-Nile 1/38) beat Delhi Daredevils 111/2 in 20 overs (JP Duminy 56; James Faulkner 2/22, Stuart Binny 2/27, Dhawal Kulkarni 2/43, Shane Watson 1/25)