Watch Video: Fight between Nitish Rana and Digvesh Rathi in DPL

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Fight between Nitish Rana and Digvesh Rathi in DPL: The eliminator match of Delhi Premier League 2025 was played on 29th August between West Delhi Lions and South Delhi Superstars at Arun Jaitley Stadium. Where the team of West Delhi Lions managed to win by seven wickets. During the match, not only the pile of runs but also the fierce form of the players was seen. West Delhi captain Nitish Rana and South Delhi spin bowler Digvesh Singh Rathi came face to face. During this, there was a lot of altercation between the two players. Whose video is going viral very fast on social media.

Nitish Rana vs Digvesh Rathi: In the viral video, it can be seen that Nitish Rana was ready to bat, while Digvesh has the ball in his hand. As soon as Digvesh planned to throw the ball, he changed the plan seeing Rana's fierce form. After which Rana got furious. To teach him a lesson, he also did the same thing on the next ball. As soon as Digvesh planned to leave the ball, Rana withdrew from batting. After which Digvesh lost his temper. He said something, after which Rana also retaliated. The result was that both the players clashed badly in the middle of the field.

Watch video of Nitish and Digvesh fight in DPL

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The good news is that the other players and the field umpires intervened and resolved the issue, otherwise the matter could have escalated. Rana's bat was in full swing during the match. While chasing the target, he faced a total of 55 balls. Meanwhile, he managed to score an unbeaten 134 runs at a strike rate of 243.64. Due to which the West Delhi team managed to win by seven wickets with 17 balls remaining.

Why did Nitish Rana and Digvesh Rathi fight?

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This incident happened in the 11th over of West Delhi's innings when Krish hit a shot on Aman Bharti's ball, but Amanol Sharma caught the ball and ended his innings. When Krish started returning to the pavilion, Aman celebrated aggressively and started saying something to Krish. After this Krish moved towards him and started saying something, after which the dispute increased.

South Delhi player Sumit Mathur also jumped into this dispute and the argument increased. To calm the situation, Nitish Rana and a female umpire intervened and separated the quarreling players. Nitish put his hand on Sumit's shoulder and took him away, while the female umpire sent Krish towards the dugout. At the same time, there was a heated argument between Nitish Rana and Digvesh Rathi.

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