🏏IPL 2026: Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers, 39th Match, Delhi🏏 - Page 2

Stats and triva

• Bhuvneshwar Kumar has solid records against DC's top three. He's dismissed Rahul and Nitish Rana only twice each, but they only strike at 109 and 122 against him respectively. He has also got the better of Nissanka three times in four innings, conceding just 22 runs in 24 balls.
• Jitesh Sharma has got out to Axar Patel twice in 19 balls, scoring just 15 runs against the left-arm spinner.
• Kohli is 72 runs away from reaching 400 runs in an IPL season for the 11th time. The closest to him are Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner and Suresh Raina, who did it nine times each.

Pitch and Conditions

This game will be played on Pitch No. 5, where GT made 210 earlier this season and DC fell short by one run in a last-ball thriller. In the four games played on this mixed-soil pitch since IPL 2025, the average first-innings score has been 197, so you can expect another high-scoring match.

Quotes

"The bowlers are challenged, isn't it? 200, 220 runs, teams seem to be getting it and it almost feels like 220 is the old 180 or something like that. So it is a challenging situation for any bowling coach and any bowler. So obviously as a bowling unit, you need to be very aware of what's happening and how the scores have increased and how you need to be thinking as a bowler and without revealing too much, I'd say so far we are trying our best to do a good job."

RCB batting coach Dinesh Karthik on a tough life for bowlers

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Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Can a one-day turnaround help Delhi Capitals bounce back from the stinging defeat to Punjab Kings, who chased down a world-record 265 with more than an over to spare? In the unforgiving world of the IPL, it has to. For Delhi, there's neither time nor the luxury to dwell on the what ifs anyway, especially with second-placed Royal Challengers Bengaluru already in town.

At the halfway mark, DC have more losses against their name than wins. All four defeats have come in the last-five outings - a slump that folllwed yet another promising start to their IPL 2026 campaign. Back at home, against the table toppers PBKS, Delhi piled on a mammoth score only for the bowling and fielding to collectively let them down in a game where the batters finally stepped up.

Lungi Ngidi's freak injury also compromised their attack on Saturday. Now with Mitchell Starc unavailable until the start of next month, the concerns in an already misfiring pace department have compounded. Hurt and vulnerable as they may be, Delhi can't afford more slip-ups heading into the business half of the season.

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