IPL 2026 DC vs RR 1st Innings: Batting first, Rajasthan Royals scored 193 runs for 8 wickets on the board in 20 overs at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. The team could have easily reached a total of 230 or 240, because the team’s score in 14.1 overs was 2 wickets for 161 runs. There were 35 balls left from here. If runs had been scored in these balls even with a net run rate of 12, the score could have reached 231, but the team here lost 3 wickets in just 3 runs and the score became 5 wickets for 165 runs in 14.5 overs. After this the team could not regain the momentum it had achieved in the beginning. Rajasthan scored only 32 runs in the last 35 balls and 6 wickets fell.

Dhruv Jurel played the biggest innings for Rajasthan and scored 53 runs in 40 balls with the help of 5 fours and 2 sixes. During this period, Mitchell Starc took maximum 4 wickets for Delhi. Apart from this, Madhav Tiwari and Lungi Angidi did wonders and took 2-2 wickets. Now Delhi will have to score 194 runs to win.

The first wicket fell early, there was fierce batting in the middle.

Let us tell you that Delhi Capitals captain Akshar Patel won the toss and decided to bowl and invited Rajasthan to bat first. Rajasthan had a bad start. The team lost the first wicket in the form of Yashasvi Jaiswal on the score of just 19 runs.

After this, Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel put the team in a strong position by making a partnership of 70 runs in 34 balls for the second wicket.

Then for the third wicket, Dhruv Jurel along with captain Riyan Parag added 72 runs in 41 balls. Thanks to this partnership, the team’s score reached 161 runs. But due to the rapid fall of wickets from here, the team’s run pace slowed down. The team started losing wickets one after the other.

When did wickets fall?

After the first wicket fell on 19 runs, the team got the second blow on 89 runs, the third on 161 runs, the fourth on 161 runs, the fifth on 165 runs, the sixth on 173 runs, the seventh on 187 runs and the eighth on 191 runs.

Who scored how many runs?

Apart from the highest scorer Dhruv Jurel, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 12 runs, Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 46 runs, Captain Riyan Parag scored 51 runs, Ravi Singh scored 04 runs, Shubham Dubey scored 05 runs, Dasun Shanaka scored 10 runs, Joffra Archer scored 02* runs and Adam Milne scored 02* runs. Whereas Denovan Ferreira was out without opening the account.

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