He strikes with his very first delivery as Hetmyer makes room and goes for the big hit over the covers but misses it completely and is bowled for 16.

Rishabh Pant shuffles across and is hit on the pads but survives the leg before shout courtesy of an inside edge before he slaps the next to deep point for a single to get off the mark.

Rahane is then hit on the pads trying to block it off the front foot as he is beaten by the googly and struck right in front of the stumps to be out leg before wicket for 26. He decides to walk off without taking the review as Delhi slip to 55/4 in the seventh over.

Rashid nearly bags another one as Shreyas Iyer gets a thick inside edge which narrowly misses the stumps as the leg-spinner picks up two wickets, while giving away just one run in his opening over.

T Natarajan comes into the attack from the other end.

Pant cuts the second ball powerfully but only for a single to thirdman before Iyer clips the next to deep square leg for one.

Pant then heaves a length ball from Nataraja over the midwicket boundary for a six before he takes a single off the last ball.

Delhi struggling on 64-4 in eight overs, with another 156 needed from 12 overs for victory at an asking rate of 13.