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Both Delhi Capital and Royal Challengers Bengaluru are having a good season so far in the IPL 2025. Delhi Capitals have won three matches out of their last five matches. They won the last match to Lucknow Super Giants in an away game. Royal Challengers Bengaluru broke the drought of wins at home in the last match against Rajasthan Royals. They have three wins in five matches as well.
Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi is one of the oldest grounds in India and serves as the home ground of Delhi Capitals for IPL and Indian Cricket team for International matches. This ground has hosted a total of 93 IPL matches so far, where the batting second team has a slight advantage of winning one match more than the team batting first. The average first innings score is 170 runs while this decreases to 156 in the second innings. In the last match at this venue between Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capital won the match in super over.
Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru are two of the most intense rivals in IPL history with a vast history of series of events. They have played 32 matches in total against each other in the IPL, Delhi Capitals won 12 matches while Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won 19 matches against DC. One match was left with no result between them due to rain.
Abishek Porel, Karun Nair, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Dushmantha Chameera, Mukesh Kumar
Impact Players: Jake Fraser McGurk, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay
Injury Update: None
Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal
Impact Players: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh
Injury Updates: None
Salt has scored 13 runs in 9 balls. He has been dismissed once. Axar has bowled 4 dot balls to him. Salt has hit 1 four and 1 six. His strike rate is 144.4 and average is 13.0. It's a balanced contest so far. This battle will be on in the powerplay where Axar will try to bowl a few overs of spin against Salt.
Axar has scored 60 runs in 34 balls. He has been dismissed 2 times. Bhuvi has bowled 4 dot balls to him. Axar has hit 2 fours and 4 sixes. His strike rate is 176.5 and average is 30.0. Axar has been very attacking against Bhuvi. This battle will be on in the death overs if Axar survives till the death overs.
Patidar has scored 16 runs in 13 balls. He has been dismissed once which was in the last meeting at Bengaluru. Kuldeep has bowled 4 dot balls to him. Patidar has hit 1 six but no fours. His strike rate is 123.1 and average is 16.0. It has become an even battle since the last match where Kuldeep got him.
KL Rahul has been the backbone for Delhi Capitals. He has been hurt by the fact that Lucknow Super Giants didn’t retain him in IPL 2025 and has delivered his best playing for his new team Delhi Capitals. KL Rahul has scored 323 runs in just 7 matches with an amazing average of 64.60. He scored an unbeaten 57 against his former team LSG in the last match and a match-winning 93* against RCB to display his legacy at his home ground Bengaluru.
Axar has been useful with both bat and ball. With the bat, he scored 174 runs in 8 matches at a good strike rate of 161.11. However in the last few games he has not been able to pick up wickets but he will be a valuable pick in this match against RCB in this match. He holds solid matchups against RCB batters which will help him to deliver well with the ball in hand.
Virat Kohli is having a great IPL 2025 and in the last few games, he has been unstoppable with the bat. He has scored 392 runs in 9 matches at a strong average of 65.33. He already has five fifties in this season showing his top form. In the recent games, Kolhi scored 70 against RR and 73 not out* against PBKS, both in winning cause. Talking about his records against Delhi Capitals, Virat Kohli is the highest run getter against Delhi Capitals. Virat Kohli averages 49.05 against Delhi Capitals having scored seven fifties so far in the IPL history.
Hazlewood has been brilliant with the ball for RCB. He delivered a match winning spell of 4/33 against Rajasthan Royals in the last match to bring the match back into RCB’s hands. Josh Hazlewood has taken a total of 16 wickets in 9 matches which is highest by a RCB player this season. He also took 3 wickets against Punjab Kings but RCB couldn;t win that match due to a poor batting display.
Abishek Porel is doing a decent job for DC opening the batting. Porel has amassed 225 runs from 8 games with an average of 32.14. Porel was among DC’s retained players list in IPL 2025 and he is showing why he was retained in this season. His recent numbers are above average, He hit his first fifty of the season with 51 runs vs LSG in the last match while he also scored 49 runs inning against Rajasthan Royals. He is a reliable batter for Delhi Capitals this season.
Padikkal has scored 230 runs in 8 matches with an average of 32.86. His strike rate is more likeable which is around 156.46. He has hit two fifties this season in the last two games. His best of 61 came against Punjab Kings in a day game while his second fifty of the season came against Rajasthan Royals in the last game.
Jake Fraser McGurk has been given his chances in the season but he was not able to deliver in any of the matches he played for Delhi Capitals. Manoj Bhandage, on the other hand, had his chance in a match against Punjab Kings but he could only score 1 run in that match so he will not be given any further chances in this season. You can avoid both the players in you dream11 team.
Keeper: KL Rahul, Phil Salt, Abishek Porel
Batters: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Tristan Stubbs, Devdutt Padikkal, Karun Nair
All-rounders: Axar Patel
Bowlers: Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood
Keeper: KL Rahul, Phil Salt
Batters: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Tristan Stubbs, Karun Nair
All-rounders: Axar Patel
Bowlers: Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Kuldeep Yadav, Yash Dayal
Disclaimer: CricOpinion provides predictions based on analysis, understanding, and intuition. Refer to records and stats before making decisions. You are not bound to follow these predictions. CricOpinion is not responsible for any losses, damages, or consequences resulting from the use of this information.
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