RCB vs DC Live Toss Update: Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar has won the toss. He has chosen to bowl first for their IPL 2026 match against the Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Patidar, who has been leading the reigning champions from the front, opted to bowl due to the high-scoring Delhi pitch and the scorching 40-degree Celsius heat.

The atmosphere in Delhi is quite hyped up. Their local boy, Virat Kohli, has returned to his home ground. He is just a few runs away from achieving the milestone of scoring 9000 runs in this tournament. If he achieves it on his home ground, it will become even more special.

Confirmed Playing 11: Final Lineups

Speaking of the toss, both the skippers-Axar Patel and Rajat Patidar entered the ground for the toss and RCB won thstoss and chose to bowl first. 

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

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

It should be noted here that the Rajat Patidar-led side made no changes in their playing XI but the host did make a few changes. 

Sahil Parakh, Dushmantha Chameera and Kyle Jamieson has replaced Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi and Mukesh Kumar in the playing XI. 

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DC vs RCB IPL 2026: Captains Thoughts

 Axar Patel (Delhi Capitals Captain): "[What would he had done?] If I had won the toss, I would have bowled. Chasing is easy in the evening and the ground is small as well.

 [How difficult to forget the last loss] Obviously, scoring 264 and losing, you can just give confidence to the team. We did well while batting and bowling, just needed to grab our chances. Need to be mentally strong.

 I think you need to continue doing things well. You have to follow the process and work hard.

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3 changes, 2 fast bowlers Kyle Jamieson, Dushmantha Chameera are in. Opener Sahil is also in, making his debut. We are trying to take wickets in powerplay. Mukesh Kumar got enough chances, but we want to use an international bowler and hence using Kyle in the powerplay."

Rajat Patidar (Royal Challengers Bengaluru Captain): "We will bowl first, pretty obvious. It's a high scoring ground, it will not make any difference. We will try to put them under pressure while chasing.

[on RCB's attributes, habits they wanna avoid] Most important thing is different player coming in different matches and doing the job for the team. We have played good cricket in the first half and we want to keep the same momentum in the second half.

[on revenge against DC in Delhi] It's all in the past. We all are here to play good cricket.

[team news] Same team."

DC vs RCB IPL 2026: Impact Subs

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

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