IPL 2020 Highlights, RCB vs DC Match, Full Cricket Score: Delhi Capitals beat RCB by 59 runs, jump to top of table

Axar Patel is Man of the match for his spell of 2 for 18:

Axar: We knew the ball was stopping on the wicket. I have practiced bowling in the powerplay. So I executed the plan well. I wanted to bowl my stock delivery and vary my pace. It was important to slow down and get turn on the wicket. I had a more defensive approach when I came to bowl in the powerplay but soon I switched to attacking mode after seeing how pitch was behaving.

Shreyas Iyer, Delhi Capitals captain: Kudos to the boys. The strategy was to play with freedom and be fearless. We have got good youngsters in our team who are filled with energy. It’s just that we have to go out and execute our talent and skill. It is really important for us to get good recovery after the games. It is not easy when you are in the bio bubble.

On missing Amit Mishra: “It’s really saddening when your senior-most player who has been doing so well misses out. We will miss him, but we have got good replacements as well."

Best bowling figures for Rabada in IPL:

4/21 v RCB, Bangalore, 2019
4/22 v SRH, Hyderabad, 2019
4/24 v RCB, Dubai, 2020*

After 20 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 137/9 ( Navdeep Saini 12 , Yuzvendra Chahal 0)

DC win by 59 runs

That’s it. RCB manage just 137/9 in reply to DC’s target of 197 runs. DC jump to top of table with the win. Top show by the South African pacers Nortje and Rabada alongside the spinners. RCB completely outplayed in all departments tonight.

After 19 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 127/9 ( Navdeep Saini 4 , )

Nortje continues. Top spell from him. Finishes with two wickets in the game. Has been very good in death overs. RCB lose their ninth wicket in form of Siraj. Chahal comes in to bat.

After 18 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 121/8 ( Navdeep Saini 3 , Mohammed Siraj 0)

Rabada removes Dube on first ball of the over. Was on hat-trick but missed it, bowled a short ball to Saini who somehow evaded it. He got second wicket in the over in form of Udana. He finishes off with a four-fer. What a spell of pace bowling. Royal Challengers Bangalore need 76 runs in 12 balls.

After 17 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 118/6 ( Shivam Dube 11 , Isuru Udana 1)

Nortje returns to the attack after final time out of the match. Isuru Udana, right handed bat, joins Dube in the middle. Two singles off the first two balls and then two dots before Dube runs a leg bye. Nortje yet again excellent with his yorkers. He is fast, sharp and disciplined. Just 3 off the over. Top work. Royal Challengers Bangalore need 79 runs in 18 balls.

After 16 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 115/6 ( Shivam Dube 10 , )

Rabada continues. Sundar hits two boundaries in the over, as if announcing that this is still not over for them. But he perishes on the last ball of the over. Time out called. Royal Challengers Bangalore need 82 runs in 24 balls

After 16 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 115/6 ( Shivam Dube 10 , )

Rabada continues. Sundar hits two boundaries in the over, as if announcing that this is still not over for them. But he perishes on the last ball of the over. Time out called. Royal Challengers Bangalore need 82 runs in 24 balls

After 15 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 105/5 ( Washington Sundar 8 , Shivam Dube 9)

End of Ashwin’s spell. He finishes with figures of 1 for 16. It could have looked better had Dube not him for a six on the penultimate ball of the over. Royal Challengers Bangalore need 92 runs in 30 balls.

After 14 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 97/5 ( Washington Sundar 7 , Shivam Dube 2)

Rabada back on. Starts off with a wide down the leg. Has bowled a couple of wides tonight. But he straightens his length quickly and gets Kohli as well. The RCB skipper gave in to the rising required rate, attempted a heave and fell. Think that wicket has sealed the win for DC. Mere formalities left now. Royal Challengers Bangalore need 100 runs in 36 balls. Dube joins Sundar in the middle.

After 13 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 91/4 ( Virat Kohli (C) 42 , Washington Sundar 5)

Harshal continues and on the first ball of the new over, Kohli spots his slower one and smashes it for a six. Sundar joins Kohli in them middle and starts off with a lovely cover drive. 16 off the over. Royal Challengers Bangalore need 106 runs in 42 balls.

After 12 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 75/4 ( Virat Kohli (C) 32 , )

Axar finishes his four overs. Both Kohli and Moeen are finding it difficult to play the power shots. Moeen in fact was failing to time the ball and in order to hit the big shot, has perished. RCB in deep trouble, Kohli is the man for them now. Axar finishes with two wickets, top spell from him.

After 11 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 70/3 ( Virat Kohli (C) 29 , Moeen Ali 9)

Harshal comes into the attack. RCB scored 63 in first 10 overs which means they need to go big in the remaining over but the ball seems to be stopping a bit on pitching, as both batsmen have been unable to connect. Lovely off cutters from Harshal, tough to spot, not giving any pace on the bat for the batsmen. Kohli runs a couple of doubles and singles but the need of the hour are sixes and boundaries. Seven off the over.

After 10 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 63/3 ( Virat Kohli (C) 23 , Moeen Ali 9)

Time out over. Axar continues. Single off the first ball. Followed by four dots. Kohli got stuck in there before taking a single off the last ball. Just 2 off the over.

After 9 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 61/3 ( Virat Kohli (C) 22 , Moeen Ali 8)

Ashwin continues from the other end, and continues to bowl the tight lines in this over as the under-pressure pair of Virat and Moeen are able to collect a total of four singles and a brace — aside from a wide — from the offie’s third.

After 8 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 54/3 ( Virat Kohli (C) 18 , Moeen Ali 6)

Axar’s brought back into the attack, having bowled a tidy first over in which he got rid of Aussie opener Aaron Finch. Starts off with a couple of dots, followed by a single off each of the next two. Virat gets an under-edge off the fifth and comes back for a brace as the ball runs away towards third man. The skipper retains the strike with a single off the last ball.

After 7 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 49/3 ( Virat Kohli (C) 14 , Moeen Ali 5)

Ashwin back on. Moeen joins Kohli in the middle. He needs to go big from the word go and the asking rate is about to touch the 12 mark. He hits a four to Ashwin in the over and RCB need more of them. But just six off the over.

After 6 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 43/3 ( Virat Kohli (C) 13 , Moeen Ali 0)

Nortje returns to the attack. There was a big mixup between ABD and Kohli which almost ran the RCB skipper out. But Ashwin missed the targetat the non-striker’s end. ABD hit Nortje for a four but he returned strongly to dismiss him. Wicket for DC in the over and five runs for RCB.

Players with 9000-plus T20 runs:

Chris Gayle 
Kieron Pollard
Shoaib Malik 
Brendon McCullum 
David Warner 
Aaron Finch 
VIRAT KOHLI*

After 5 overs,Royal Challengers Bangalore 38/2 ( Virat Kohli (C) 12 , AB de Villiers (W) 5)

Harshal Patel, right-arm fast medium, comes into the attack and starts off with a poor ball, down the leg stump line and Kohli reached 9,000 T20 runs with a boundary to fine leg. AB de Villiers has joined Kohli in the middle and has opened his account with a flick to short fine leg. He ends the over with a stunning hit. 11 off the over.