With KL Rahul’s unbeaten 93 run off 53 deliveries dragged Delhi Capitals to register their fourth consecutive victory in the IPL 2025 season. Notably, Delhi is the only team to remain unbeaten in this season.
Speaking of the match, Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to bowl first. Virat Kohli and Phil Salt opened the inning and Mitchell Starc opened the bowling attack. The duo made an aggressive start and crossed the fifty rus mark at the end of the 3rd over.
While the duo was seen as dangerous, Phil Salt lost his wicket via a runout dismissal for 37 runs. Mukesh Kumar in the sixth over, dismissed Padikkal for one run and contained RCB for 64 runs for 2 wickets at the end of first powerplay.
Vipraj Nigam in the next over, dismissed Kohli for 22 runs and made a massive breakthrough. Rajat Patidar and Liam Livingstone started to build a partnership, Mohit Sharma in the 10th over, dismissed Liam for four runs. At the end of 10 overs, RCB scored 91 runs for four wickets loss.
While Rajat Patidar was expected to make an impact on the scoreboard, Kuldeep Yadav in the 15th over, dismissed RCB captain for 25 runs and restricted RCB to score 117 runs for 6 wickets at the end of 15 overs.
With Tim David’s 20 balls 37 runs, RCB managed to score 163 runs for seven wickets at the end of 20 overs.
While chasing, Delhi made a terrible start by losing their opening batters Faf du Plessis and Fraser-McGurk for two and seven runs respectively. Yash Dayal dismissed Faf for 2 runs in the final delivery of the second over while Bhuvneshwar dismissed McGurk for seven runs in the third over.
Just the start RCB needed!
Yash Dayal strikes early and gets the big wicket of Faf du Plessis! 💥
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Bhuvneshwar Kumar, again in the fifth over dismissed Porel for seven runs and contained Delhi for 39 runs for three wickets at the end of first powerplay.
After the three quick wickets, Axar Patel and KL Rahul tried to build a partnership but Suyash Sharma in the 9th over, dismissed Axar for 15 runs and contained Delhi for 66 runs for four wickets at the end of 10 overs.
In a drastic situation, Tristan Stubbs and KL Rahul started to build a massive partnership and dragged DC to chase down the target in 17.5 overs.
Local boy. Big stage. Statement made.
How good was Bengaluru’s KL Rahul against RCB tonight?
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