- By Vishal Pushkar
- Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:56 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Where To Watch Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Match: It will be a match-up of epic proportions as tempers are likely to flare around the Arun Jaitley Stadium with hosts Delhi Capitals (DC) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) face-off in a high-stakes IPL 2025 showdown on Sunday evening.
Both team have done exceedingly well and that reflects from them having 12 points each – though DC are ahead of RCB on the basis of net run rate and having one defeat less than them. RCB have won six of their ten meeting against DC in New Delhi, both teams are literally neck to neck in how they have gone about their business in batting and bowling.
With the firepower of KL Rahul, Axar Patel, Tristan Stubbs and Ashutosh Sharma, DC have a strike-rate of 152, and run-rate of 9.1 in middle overs, which is more than what RCB have in that phase (139 and 8.3 respectively). In the last five overs, DC’s strike-rate is a massive 205 and run-rate at 12.3, which is again more than RCB’s numbers (190 and 11.4 respectively).
When the last time these two teams met at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Rahul’s 93 not out and an unbeaten 38 from Stubbs lifted DC out of trouble after losing three wickets in the powerplay and put them on the path to an astonishing victory.
With some purchase on offer for spinners at Kotla, which has a fast outfield and smaller dimensions, DC will bank on their firepower in the middle if they are to outclass RCB’s top-order batting might. In terms of bowling, it is very much the same story with little adjustments.
It remains to be seen if love and support for Kohli will upstage the new-found admiration in Delhi’s cricket fans for Rahul, who left RCB and Chinnaswamy, stunned with a mesmerising batting display and an animated ‘this is my ground’ celebration.
Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru
When: Sunday, April 27 at 7:30 pm IST
Where: Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi
Where to watch: Live telecast on Star Sports network and live streaming on JioHotstar.
Squads:
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (captain), Faf du Plessis, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel, Mitchell Starc, Vipraj Nigam, Karun Nair, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sameer Rizvi, T. Natarajan, Darshan Nalkande, Dushmantha Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, and Madhav Tiwari.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Liam Livingstone, Swapnil Singh, Manoj Bhandage, Rasikh Dar Salam, Nuwan Thushara, Jacob Bethell, Mohit Rathee, Swastik Chikara, Abhinandan Singh