{"id":20574,"date":"2023-04-08T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=297627"},"modified":"2023-04-08T19:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:31:10","slug":"ipl-2023-live-axar-patel-is-better-hitter-than-rovman-powell-netizens-unhappy-with-dc-decision-to-send-axar-ahead-of-hitter-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2023-live-axar-patel-is-better-hitter-than-rovman-powell-netizens-unhappy-with-dc-decision-to-send-axar-ahead-of-hitter-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2023 Live: \u201cAxar Patel is better hitter than Rovman Powell,\u201d netizens unhappy with DC decision to send Axar ahead of hitter Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until Trent Boult returned to his spell to claim his third wicket of the day, Lalit Yadav was contributing effectively. Axar Patel was sent to bat next.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to send Axar Patel ahead of dominating hitter Rovman Powell was unexpectedly shocking. Given that Warner, who was already settled in, was playing at a strike rate of just 110, DC was in need of a batter who could impact the game by levelling up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Netizens react<\/strong> \u2013<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suhaswaghtweets\/status\/1644689399144382464<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sending Axar when you still have Rovman Powell who can tonk the bowlers with Reqd Rate almost 15RPO is peak DC <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RRvDC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RRvDC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arjun Gulyani (@arjungulyani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arjungulyani\/status\/1644689705429250049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delhi Capitals are holding back Rovman Powell for the next match? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CricketTwitter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CricketTwitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hac Himel \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde9 (@hac_himel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hac_himel\/status\/1644689309424029696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some big brain stuff there sending Axar ahead of Rovman Powell when you need 100 of 42<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hardik Vyas (@enthusiast_data) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/enthusiast_data\/status\/1644689165823488001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yashagarwalla\/status\/1644688620836777984<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until Trent Boult returned to his spell to claim his third wicket of the day, Lalit Yadav was contributing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":41116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1439,3009],"class_list":["post-20574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-axar-patel","tag-rovman-powell"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}