RCB has defeated Delhi Capitals by 9 wickets. Royal Challengers Bangalore won the match with 81 balls remaining. Delhi Capitals team was bundled out for 75 runs in front of the lethal bowling of Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. In reply, RCB won the match in 6.3 overs. Virat Kohli also completed 9 thousand runs in IPL. Virat returned unbeaten on 23 runs in 15 balls and Devdutt Padikkal returned unbeaten on 34 runs in 13 balls. Whereas Jacob Bethel scored 20 runs in 11 balls. Earlier, in bowling, Hazlewood took four wickets and Bhuvi took three wickets.

Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Delhi Capitals by 9 wickets in the 39th match of IPL 2026. While chasing the run, Bengaluru won in just 6.3 overs i.e. the team won in 13.3 overs already. Delhi, who came to bat first in the match, was all out for just 75 runs in 16.3 overs. While chasing, Devdutt Padikkal played the biggest innings of 34* runs for RCB by hitting 3 fours and 3 sixes in 13 balls. In the same match, Virat Kohli crossed the mark of 9000 runs.

Virat Kohli’s 9 thousand runs in IPL

After scoring 11 runs against Delhi Capitals, King Kohli has completed 9 thousand runs in IPL. He has become the first batsman to score 9000 runs in IPL. The audience stood up and applauded this historic achievement of Virat. The record of scoring most runs in IPL is already in the name of Virat Kohli.

Today in IPL 2026 there is a match between Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Both the teams will clash at Delhi’s home ground Arun Jaitley Stadium. Both the teams will clash for the second time this season. Earlier, both the teams had played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, where Delhi had won. In such a situation, now RCB will take the field with the intention of taking revenge.

Talking about the points table, RCB is at second place. Rajat Patidar’s team has won five out of seven matches so far. Whereas Delhi Capitals is at seventh place in the points table. Delhi team has so far won only three matches in seven matches. Delhi could not defend 264 runs against Punjab Kings on their home ground. She had lost the last match. Whereas RCB had won in the last match.

Arun Jaitley Stadium pitch report

The pitch of Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi is suitable for the batsmen. It rains runs here. More than 500 runs were scored here in the match between Punjab and Delhi. Punjab had chased the historic run of 265 runs. Once again a high scoring match can be seen here.

match prediction

Our match prediction meter is saying that RCB has the upper hand in this match. Delhi will play on its home ground, but RCB has more chances of victory. It is an evening match. In such a situation, the toss is going to be very important. The team winning the toss can decide to bowl first.

Probable playing eleven of Delhi Capitals- Pathum Nissanka, KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel (c), Kyle Jamieson/Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar and T Natarajan.

Impact Player- Aaqib Nabi Dar/Viparaj Nigam/Ashutosh Sharma

Probable playing eleven of RCB- Jacob Bethel, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Dar Salaam and Josh Hazlewood.

Impact Player- Suyash Sharma

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