DC Vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2026: Clinical Bengaluru Crush Capitals By Nine Wickets In Delhi

Good evening and welcome, cricket fans! We are building up to the start of the IPL 2026 game between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Stay with us for pre-match info, toss, playing XIs and live updates.

Delhi Capitals: Pathum Nissanka, KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Rana, David Miller, Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel (c), Tristan Stubbs, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Auqib Nabi Dar, Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Ashutosh Sharma, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, Mitchell Starc, Kyle Jamieson, Rehan Ahmed, Prithvi Shaw, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Tripurana Vijay, Abishek Porel, Sahil Parakh, Madhav Tiwari

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Jacob Bethell, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam Dar, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Venkatesh Iyer, Philip Salt, Jacob Duffy, Nuwan Thushara, Abhinandan Singh, Swapnil Singh, Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishk Chouhan, Satvik Deswal

The first ball will be bowled at 7:30pm IST, with the toss scheduled for 7pm. The DC vs RCB, IPL 2026 game will be live streamed on the JioHotstar app and website in India. It will be telecast on the Star Sports Network TV channels in the country.

It is a very hot day in Delhi, and temperatures expected to hover between 40°C and 28°C in the evening, during match hours. Humidity will hover in the range of 16-18%, with slow winds of 15 km/h blowing at night. There’s no chance of rainfall.

Based on current form and squad balance, RCB head into the contest as slight favourites. The Google win predictor gives RCB a 55% chance, while Delhi Capitals stand at 45%. With stronger momentum and a more settled lineup, RCB hold the edge, but DC’s home conditions and previous win this season suggest this could still turn into a closely fought contest.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar has won the toss and elected to bowl first. His opposite number Axar Patel says he would have fielded too.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam Dar

Delhi Capitals: Sahil Parakh, KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Axar Patel (c), Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Kyle Jamieson

Delhi Capitals: Auqib Nabi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, T Vijay, Abishek Porel

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Jacob Bethell, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Venkatesh Iyer

Star all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer continues to warm the Royal Challengers Bengaluru bench. He has been named in the impact subs list, but is unlikely to take the field tonight, just like in most of the other matches. He has played just one game this season so far, against the Rajasthan Royals.

What a cracking start to the match for RCB. Their veteran seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, time and again hailed as one of the country's most under-rated pacers, bamboozles 18-year-old Sahil Parakh second ball. It's a pearler which tails back in late to take out the middle stump.

Nothing much the youngster could have done about that; it was too good for most opening batters going around.

Well, well, well. Such a riot, this game of cricket. Delhi are all at sea at home amid the seam wizardry of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood. The senior duo has snared five wickets inside the first three overs, including the prized scalps of KL Rahul, Nitish Rana and Tristan Stubbs, to silence the home crowd completely. Bhuvi's figures read 2-0-3-3 currently.

DC: 8/5 (3)

While the Capitals' nightmare with the bat continues in Delhi, we have team news coming in from the Mumbai Indians camp. MI have signed South Africa spinner Keshav Maharaj as a replacement for Mitchell Santner, who has been ruled out of IPL 2026 owing to a left shoulder injury. Santner sustained the injury during MI’s last home game against Chennai Super Kings while attempting a catch near the boundary.

Maharaj has featured in two IPL matches, representing Rajasthan Royals in 2024. He joins MI for a fee of INR 75 lakh.

Just when the Capitals were seeming like getting some breathing space, by way of a 35-run partnership between David Miller and Abishek Porel, RCB snuff it out. Rasikh Salam gets Miller to miscue a length ball, and it goes straight up for Jitesh to take the simplest of catches. Delhi are seven down now and would need a special effort to get to three digits!

DC: 43/7 (9)

Amid RCB's bowling storm, a dust storm briefly halts play. For the DC batters, the sand storm comes as a welcome respite from the relentless heat dished out by the Bengaluru bowlers.

Play eventually resumes, though the swirling dust has certainly affected visibility for batters and fielders. 

Krunal Pandya traps Kyle Jamieson in front, and the umpire raises the finger. Jamieson reviews, and it's umpire's call! The tall New Zealander has to depart and in comes Kuldeep Yadav, even as impact sub Abishek Porel continues to hold fort at one end. The number of dot balls crosses the half-century mark after 14 overs, meanwhile.

DC: 71/8 (15)

A fitting end to a thorough bowling masterclass. Josh Hazlewood dishes out an inch-perfect yorker to Porel, whose resistance finally ends to the brilliance of the Aussie seamer. Hazlewood finishes with figures of 4/12 and the Capitals are bundled out for 75 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar gets the Purple Cap after his sizzling spell of 5/3, meanwhile.

DC: 75 all out (16.3)

Here's a snapshot of how the dust storm affected proceedings, though it didn't stop RCB from completing their demolition job with the ball.

Impact sub Jacob Bethell walks out to open the batting for RCB alongside local lad Virat Kohli, while Kyle Jamieson takes the new ball for DC. Jamieson sprays the first ball down leg and Bethell gets a tickle through to the fence. It's a steady start to the innings for RCB, who would no doubt eye a net run rate boost tonight.

RCB: 7/0 (1)

It takes a brilliant running catch from T Natarajan to cut short Jacob Bethell's entertaining cameo. The English southpaw strikes a couple of glorious sixes before getting dismissed for an 11-ball 20. Another left-hander, in the form of Devdutt Padikkal, joins Kohli in the middle and gets going immediately. RCB cantering to the target.

RCB: 39/1 (4)

Virat Kohli scales the 9000-run IPL mountain, achieving another unprecedented milestone and heightening his own lofty standards. He follows it up with two magnificent sixes off Natarajan to bring the match to a swift end. RCB polish off the 76-run target in a mere 6.3 overs to register an utterly dominant nine-wicket win. As for the Capitals, the evening is best forgotten.

RCB: 77/1 (6.3) beat DC: 75 all out by nine wickets

It's a hard defeat to swallow for Axar Patel and Co, as they were waylaid from start to finish. Here's what the DC skipper told the host broadcaster after the loss:

"I still cannot understand what happened. That is why they say you have to be on your toes at all times in cricket. Ifs and buts will be there - like if we had taken that catch or taken that run (against GT). That will keep happening. But each day, you have to be on your toes and keep doing what you have been doing well. You cannot take it easy for even one day.

"Rather than thinking about what has happened, think about what is to come. Even if you stay negative or positive, you still have to play. Tonight was a bad day. We have to be positive and do what we had been doing (earlier).

[On the early movement on offer] I was not surprised. They (Bhuvneshwar and Hazlewood) are world-class bowlers. 1-2 overs, if our openers and number three had batted, it could have been a different game."