RCB vs DC IPL 2025: Delhi won even after losing 3 wickets for 30 runs, captain's catch, Kohli's run out...

In IPL, one mistake often proves costly, so if a team makes two blunders, then what can be said? Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) did the same thing against Delhi Capitals. RCB, playing on its home ground, made many such mistakes on Thursday, which Delhi Capitals took full advantage of and won the match by 6 wickets. This is Delhi's fourth consecutive win in the tournament. With this win, it has equaled Gujarat Titans with 8 points in the points table. Gujarat is at the first and Delhi is at the second position in the points table based on better run rate.

Delhi Capitals registered its fourth win in IPL 2025 on Thursday. It won the match by scoring 169 runs for 4 wickets in response to RCB's 163 runs. Delhi Capitals had lost 3 wickets for just 30 runs at one time. Faf du Plessis (2), Jack Fraser McGurk (7), and Abhishek Porel (7) were out in quick succession. But KL Rahul stood as a wall in the way of RCB. KL played an unbeaten innings of 93 runs and won the match for his team in the 18th over. During this, he made an unbeaten partnership of 28 runs with Axar Patel (15) and 111 runs with Tristan Stubbs (38). KL was chosen as the Player of the Match for his excellent innings.

Phil Salt got run out due to Virat's mistake.

Delhi won the toss and decided to bowl first in this match played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Host Royal Challengers Bangalore made a stormy start while batting first. Phil Salt hit 24 runs in one over of Mitchell Starc. Due to this, RCB scored 60 runs without a wicket in 3.3 overs. But Virat Kohli's mistake in the fourth ball of the fourth over proved costly for Phil Salt. Salt played on the cover and ran for a run. Virat also took a start but stopped halfway. Due to this, Phil Salt had to return halfway. Before he could return, the ball reached wicketkeeper KL Rahul and he scattered the stumps. Phil Salt was run out.

Kuldeep and Vipraaj took two wickets each.

Phil Salt was out after scoring 37 runs off 17 balls. After this, it was like autumn. RCB lost wickets at regular intervals and soon its score became 117 runs for 6 wickets. Tim David scored 37 runs in 20 balls in the last overs to take RCB past 160 runs. RCB scored 163 runs for 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Rajat Patidar scored 25, Virat Kohli scored 22 and Krunal Pandya scored 18 runs. Kuldeep Yadav and Vipraaj Nigam took two wickets each for Delhi.

Dropping Patidar's catch proved costly for RCB.
RCB bowlers gave their team a good start by taking 3 wickets of Delhi Capitals in quick succession. But during this time, RCB had to pay heavily for captain Rajat Patidar dropping the catch. KL Rahul played Yash Dayal's ball on the cover. The ball went very high. Rajat Patidar ran from mid-off to reach the ball. The ball came between his hands but also slipped away. When Rahul's catch was dropped, he was playing after scoring 5 runs. KL Rahul did not give RCB a second chance after this. He remained at the crease till the end and left the field only after making Delhi win. KL Rahul hit 7 fours and 6 sixes in his 53-ball innings.

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