By Admin 
DPL 2025: Delhi Premier League (DPL) In the Eliminator match of 2025, West Delhi Lions captain Nitish Rana’s bat thundered fiercely. He hit a century in just 42 balls against South Delhi Superstar and brought his team to qualifier-2. During this, he beat the bowlers fiercely and scored an unbeaten 134 runs (55 balls) with the help of 15 sixes and 8 fours.
In the midst of Rana’s stormy innings, the second view of summer was also seen on the ground. He had a fight with South Delhi superstar spinner Digvesh Rathi, who gradually reached the fight. This video is now becoming increasingly viral on social media.
South Delhi’s power in first batting
In this match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium, South Delhi Superstar won the toss and chose the first batting. The team started well. Opener Ankur Kaushik (16 runs) and Anmol Sharma added 67 runs for the first wicket.
After Ankur’s dismissal, Kunwar Bidhuri soon returned to the pavilion after scoring 6 runs. After this, Anmol Sharma played a brilliant innings of 55 runs (7 fours, 2 sixes) off 39 balls.
Then captain Tejashwi Dahiya (60 runs, 33 balls, 2 fours, 6 sixes) and Sumit Mathur (48 not out, 26 balls, 5 fours, 2 sixes) together pushed the innings forward. Thanks to his batting, South Delhi Superstar scored a strong score of 201/5 in 20 overs.
In bowling, Hrithik Shaukin from West Delhi took 2 wickets, while Shubham Dubey, Shivank Vashistha and Anirudh Chaudhary took one wicket each.
Rana made the match unilateral
West Delhi Lions, chasing a target of 202 runs, did aggressive batting from the beginning. Captain Nitish Rana’s bat was blowing fire. He took fierce news of every bowler and completed his century in just 42 balls.
Rana hit 134 not out by the end of the innings (55 balls, 8 fours, 15 sixes). Apart from him, wicketkeeper Chris Yadav scored 31 runs (22 balls, 1 four, 3 sixes) and Mayank Gosain scored an unbeaten 15 runs.
The West Delhi team won the match by 7 wickets with 17 balls remaining.
When Rana and Rathi landed on the field
The most controversial moment of the match came during the innings of West Delhi. Nitish Rana was continuously collecting sixes and in one over of Digvesh Rathi, he also hit three sixes. Rathi was shocked by this.
While putting the next ball, Rana retreated from the crease and the debate started between the two. For some time, you kept walking on the field. Rana even picked up the bat in anger. The matter was about to deteriorate that the umpire and the players handled the situation by intervening.
Rathi’s performance in bowling was very poor and proved to be very expensive. He looted 39 runs in just 2 overs and then he did not get a chance to bowl again.