The 39th match of IPL 2026 was quite low-scoring. This match was played between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on 27 April at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Delhi team was a complete flop in the match and was all out for only 75 runs. After this the target became very easy for Bengaluru. RCB achieved this target without any problem and won by 9 wickets.
After this big win, the net run rate of RCB has improved a lot. Now the net run rate of the team has become +1.919. Whereas Bengaluru has scored 12 points in 8 matches with 6 wins and 2 losses and has reached second place in the points table. On the other hand, Delhi Capitals have registered only 3 wins and 5 losses in 8 matches. He has 6 points and the net run rate has become -1.060, due to which Delhi is currently at number 7 in the points table.
Delhi had a very bad start. The situation was very bad in the powerplay, the team lost 6 wickets for just 13 runs. Which became a shameful record. After this the batsmen played with some caution but could not increase the run rate. Between 7 and 15 overs, the team added 58 runs after losing 2 wickets. In the end, the situation worsened and Delhi team could not even play the entire death overs. During this period, it could score only 4 runs after losing 2 wickets. The result was that the entire team was reduced to just 75 runs in 16.3 overs.
For Delhi Capitals, their impact player scored the maximum 30 runs. Apart from him, David Miller played an inning of 19 runs, the rest of the top order was a complete flop. On the other hand, Bengaluru bowlers performed tremendously. Josh Hazlewood took maximum 4 wickets. Apart from him, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 3 wickets. Rasikh Salam, Suyyash Sharma and Krunal Pandya got 1-1 wicket.
RCB started its innings as if the team was already in the mood to chase a big target. The team almost won the match in the power play itself. Within the first 6 overs, Bengaluru scored 65 runs after losing 1 wicket. After this, they completely took control of the match by adding 12 more runs in the very next over. By 6.3 overs, RCB’s score was 77 runs for 1 wicket. Due to this strong start, Royal Challengers Bangalore easily won the match by 9 wickets with 81 balls remaining.
For Bengaluru, Devdutt Padikkal scored the maximum 34 runs and remained unbeaten. Virat Kohli also remained at the crease along with him and scored an unbeaten 23 runs. Whereas Jacob Bethel contributed 20 runs. The special thing about this innings was that Virat Kohli completed 9000 runs in his IPL career. On the other hand, Kyle Jamieson took 1 wicket from Delhi side.
In the last match, Delhi Capitals had scored 264 runs on the same ground but this time the situation was completely opposite. The team could barely set the target of 76 runs. The top order of the entire team failed miserably. The situation was such that three batsmen returned to the pavilion without opening their account, while two players could score only 1-1 runs. The surprising thing is that these two batsmen had played an important role in taking the team to 264 by playing big innings in the last match.
This time on the pitch where Bengaluru bowlers were seen dominating earlier, Delhi bowlers were not able to hold the match from the very beginning. Although Kyle Jamieson did take one wicket, he had to spend 42 runs for it.
