KKR tormented Delhi’s batsmen. (Photo- PTI)
IPL 2026, DC vs KKR: In the 51st match of IPL 2026, the bowling of Kolkata Knight Riders completely crushed the batting of Delhi Capitals. Delhi team could score only 142 runs in 20 overs at Arun Jaitley Stadium. KKR’s spinners and pacers together forced Delhi’s batsmen to struggle for one run each. KKR won the toss and decided to bowl first and took full advantage of it.
KKR tormented Delhi’s batsmen
Delhi Capitals got a good start in this match. Pathum Nissanka and KL Rahul added 49 runs in 5 overs for the first wicket. Pathum Nissanka played an important inning of 50 runs in 30 balls. At the same time, KL Rahul added 23 runs in 14 balls. But KKR bowlers completely dominated in the middle overs. In the middle overs (overs 7 to 15), KKR completely controlled the runs. During this period, Delhi could score only 43 runs and also lost 4 wickets, which is the lowest middle overs score of this season.
However, in the last overs, Ashutosh Sharma took the team to this score by playing an inning of 39 runs in 28 balls. But the rest of the batsmen were complete flops. Nitish Rana could score only 8 runs in 10 balls. Sameer Rizvi also scored only 3 runs on 7 balls. Tristan Stubbs was also out after scoring 2 runs on 4 balls. At the same time, captain Akshar Patel added only 11 runs in 22 balls. The surprising thing was that Delhi played a total of 51 dot balls in this innings, which was the biggest reason for this small score. Apart from this, only 6 sixes were hit in the entire innings of Delhi. Pathum Nissanka and Ashutosh Sharma hit 3 sixes each. The rest of the batsmen could not even hit a six.
Anukul Roy-Karthik Tyagi shine
The reason for this brilliant bowling of Kolkata Knight Riders was Anukul Roy and Karthik Tyagi. Both the bowlers spent runs with very low economy and took 2-2 wickets. At the same time, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine and Cameron Green also got 1 success each. Even though Varun Chakraborty did not get a wicket, he also spent only 28 runs in 4 overs.
