Delhi Capitals defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 6 wickets

Delhi Capitals (DC) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 6 wickets in the 55th match of the 13th season of IPL. With the win, Delhi have moved up to second place in the points table. They will now face Mumbai Indius on November 5 in Qualifier-1. At the same time, despite the defeat, Bangalore managed to make it to the play-offs and they are at number-3.

Batting after losing the toss in Abu Dhabi, Bengaluru had given a target of 153 runs. In response, Delhi won the match by scoring 154 runs for 4 wickets in 19 overs. Ajinkya Rahane scored 60 as he hit his 28th fifty in the league. Shikhar Dhawan completed his 40th fifty in the league and played a crucial innings of 54 runs. At the same time, Bengaluru's Shahbaz Ahmed got 2, Mohammad Siraj and Washington Sundar got 1-1 wickets.

Prithvi Shaw cheaply started out not very special. Prithvi Shaw scored 9 runs out of Mohammad Siraj's ball. Shikhar Dhawan and Ajinkya Rahane then took over. Together, the two took the team's score to 53 for the loss of one wicket in the power-play.

Bengaluru scored 152 for 7, Devdutt Duttikkal put his 5th fifty in the season and was dismissed for 50 runs. Padikkal is the first uncapped player to apply 5 FIFTY in a season. AB de Villiers also played a crucial innings of 35 runs. Thanks to both, Bengaluru scored 152 for 7 wickets. At the same time, Delhi's Enrich Nortje got 3, Kagiso Rabada got 2 and Ravichandran Ashwin got one wicket.

The 40 runners-up Bengaluru openers Devdutt Padikkal and Josh Philip opened the innings. In this match, both the teams could not get a good start and Josh Philip scored 12 runs and was dismissed by Kagiso Rabada. Bengaluru scored 40 runs in the power-play.

Captain Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal took the innings after the first wicket fell by 57 runs between Kohli and Padikkal. Both shared a 57-run partnership for the second wicket. This partnership was broken by Ravichandran Ashwin, dismissing Virat Kohli (29). Kohli's catch at the boundary was left by Enrich Nortje on a personal score of 13, but he could not make much use of it.

3 changes in Delhi and 2 changes in Bengaluru

3 changes were made in Delhi. Shimron Hetmyer, Praveen Dubey and Harshal Patel were not included in the squad. He was replaced by Ajinkya Rahane, Akshar Patel and Daniel Symes in the playing XI. At the same time, 2 changes were also made in Bengaluru. Shahbaz Ahmed was given the chance to replace Shivam Dubey and Navdeep Saini in place of Gurkeerat Singh Mann.