By Admin 
In the 51st match of IPL 2026, the teams of Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders are facing each other. This match is being played in Arun Jaitley Stadium. Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane has decided to bowl first after winning the toss. Delhi Capitals will come out to bat first. Delhi has entered today with two changes. There have also been changes in the KKR team.
After the toss, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane said, “We will bowl first. In the last three matches, it has been important to understand the wicket and play accordingly. It is difficult to understand the wicket, we have to play good cricket. The atmosphere during the break was very good and the players are performing well.”
After the toss, Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel said, “It does not matter whether we bowl or bat first. It is always better to score runs. Two changes have been made in our team for today. The spinners do not get much help on the Delhi pitch and if the fast bowlers bowl slower balls, they can get some help.”
Playing XI of Kolkata Knight Riders- Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wicketkeeper), Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Karthik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakraborty.
Playing XI of Delhi Capitals- Pathum Nissanka, KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel (c), Ashutosh Sharma, Viparaj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi and Mukesh Kumar.
One of these will be the impact player of Delhi Capitals- Karun Nair, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Abhishek Porel, David Miller
One of these will be the impact player of Kolkata Knight Riders- Ramandeep Singh, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Dahiya, Navdeep Saini, Tim Seifert
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