Delhi Daredevils slipped to back-to-back IPL defeats after succumbing to bottom side Kings XI Punjab by nine runs in Mohali. Quinton de Kock bashed 52 from 30 balls but third-placed Delhi ended on 172-5 in pursuit of 182, two days after they came unstuck against another struggling side, Rising Pune Supergiants, at Feroz Shah Kotla.Delhi will drop into fourth spot on Sunday, with the winner of the Mumbai Indians versus Sunrisers Hyderabad match in Visakhapatnam leapfrogging the capital club in the standings.Kings XI remain at the foot of the table, though, behind Royal Challengers Bangalore on run rate, following the latters Virat Kohli-inspired triumph over Pune in Saturdays first encounter.Wriddhiman Saha (52 off 33) and Marcus Stoinis (52 off 44) top scored for Kings XI against Delhi, the pair sharing a second-wicket stand of 54 after Daredevils skipper Zaheer Khan opted to bowl.Hashim Amla (1) suffered a disappointing IPL bow, the South Africans continued miscommunication with Stoinis finally leading to a run out when he chopped his fifth ball towards Khan behind square. Zaheer Khan was smashed by Wriddhiman Saha But the efforts of Saha - who clubbed three successive fours off Khan - and Stoinis, plus two late sixes from Axar Patel (16no off 5), saw the strugglers post their highest score of the campaign.Delhi made a sedate start to their reply, notching 23 runs from four overs, but De Kock cut loose with back-to-back boundaries off Stoinis (3-40) in the fifth over and a six off Patel in the sixth.De Kock secured a 27-ball fifty with a huge maximum off Stoinis, though he carved the Australian to Patel at backward point four balls later, ending a 70-run partnership with Sanju Samson (49 off 35). Samson added 51 with Karun Nair (23) before he skied Stoinis to long on looking for a third straight boundary, while Nair was caught by David Miller, shortly after being dropped by the South African, as Kings XI battled back.Sam Billings (6) and Carlos Brathwaite (12) then came and went, before a three-run 19th over from Mohit Sharma - who shipped just 21 from his four - left Delhi requiring 25 from Sandeep Sharmas 20th, a feat the visitors could not complete.There is an IPL double header on Sunday, with Jos Buttler and Mumbai Indians taking on Sunrisers Hyderabad (11am, Sky Sports 5), before the top-of-the-table clash between Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Lions (3pm, Sky Sports 4, via red button). Chris Herndon Jets Jersey .com Tour title, closing with a 6-under 64 for a four-stroke victory. The 22-year-old former North Texas player finished at 12-under 268 at Panama Golf Club and earned $112,500 to jump from seventh to second on the money list with $171,500. 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Or perhaps, like a lot of people, you went to bed before it was over. Thats because the game was not just the seventh game of the series. It was the seventh game of the series that eclipsed the three-hour mark. And while three-hour baseball games arent at all unusual these days, they shouldnt be the rule. Especially not in a 3-2 game where there was just one run scored after the second inning... and exactly three hits – combined – after the fourth. By comparison, the 1985 World Series, which also involved the Kansas City Royals in a seven-game series, had not a single game that eclipsed the three-hour mark. But in todays age, where highlights and information are available to everyone, where our phones are going off at all hours of the day and evening and demands of the workplace and life in general seem limitless, theres no way the average post-season baseball game should be three-and-a-half hours. Theres a reason things like Twitter have taken off in this day and age... because it gives us what we want instantly. Baseball needs to take a lesson from the world of 140 characters. Another comparison, if you will. San Franciscos Game 1 win over Kansas City featured just 14 hits and seven walks. There were just three runs scored by both teams after the fourth inning and, of the five pitching changes, only two occurred in the middle of an inning. The game took three hours and 32 minutes. Game 1 of the 1985 series had one more hit and the same number of walks as this years opener between the Royals and Giants, but somehow managed to wrap-up in 44 minutes less.dddddddddddd None of this should come as a surprise since this past season, the average length of a major league game crossed the three-hour mark for the very first time. Its one thing to ask football fans to invest three-plus hours per week to follow their favourite team. But since Major League Baseball teams play six or seven games per week, shorter games are a must. One of the beautiful things about baseball has been its timelessness, the idea that the length of a game in time is completely subject to what occurs in it. But the problem is not that extraordinary baseball games are taking a long time to play, its that dead-ordinary games have turned into marathons as well. Some of the lengthening of baseball games comes from changes in tactics, such as the frequency of managers changing pitchers or the tendency of hitters to take more pitches, especially at the start of a count. And then there are the advertisements, as in more of them, which are contributing to the mess. In fact, if you want to see a window into baseballs future, dont look at the World Series. Look at whats happening right now in the Arizona Fall League, which is being used as a laboratory for ways to shorten the length of games. Thats where they are setting time limits between pitches, between innings and for pitching changes. Batters are required to keep a foot in the batters box between pitches, and the occurrence of intentional walks happens automatically. No one wants to see a clock in baseball but horrendous TV ratings for this World Series will be the catalyst to bring change. Because baseball needs to adapt and understand that, when youre competing for peoples attention in this day and age, less is more. White NFL Jerseys Cheap Youth NFL Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys 2020 Stitched NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Autographed Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Discount Jerseys ' ' '
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