- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.3 A fine nick and Dahiya makes amends, taking a good low catch, diving forward. On a length angling away from Porel outside off stump. He pushes at it, only manages a thin edge and Dahiya does the rest. The umpire checks with the third umpire if the ball carried, all good. Porel walks back 40/112.4 got him!! This ball is much slower and wide of off, and Rahul falls in the trap. Roy keeps bowling wide of off, but this time hardly offers any pace to work with. The ball is full and around seventh stump, and Rahul reaches out to have a swing at it. He can barely get it to long-on, though, as Powell moves forward to catch the ball 125/39.3 Floated gently to extra cover and Narine nabs Parakh. The ball sticks into the surface outside off, Parakh is early into his stroke and miscues it only as far as extra cover 87/216.5 taken at long-on!! A hint of the Rahul dismissal by Roy from early in the day. Like Roy, Varun goes slow and wide of off to tempt the batter. This one is full and wide, and turns away to finish even wider. Axar looks to swing down the ground, but finds Rinku at long-on. The ball went off the bottom of the bat there 166/419.4 taken at mid-off!! Miller looks frustrated. It was there to be hit. A low full toss outside off, and Miller opens the face of the bat to only loft it as far as mid-off. On most days, you'd expect that ball to land beyond the boundary 201/5Extras12 (b 1, lb 2, nb 1, w 8)TOTAL203/5 (20 Overs, RR: 10.15)Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Abishek Porel, 4.3 ov), 2-87 (Sahil Parakh, 9.3 ov), 3-125 (KL Rahul, 12.4 ov), 4-166 (Axar Patel, 16.5 ov), 5-201 (David Miller, 19.4 ov)
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR13.2 taken at long-off!! Kuldeep strikes again. He saw Rahane make room, and followed him. The ball was tossed up, and dipped on a full length outside leg. Rahane went lofting down the ground, but ended up slicing it to Miller, who took it with a reverse cup 128/44.2 CLEANS HIM UP! Ngidi into the wickets column very early. Cross-seam short of a good length ball outside off stump, decking back into Allen. He looks to swipe that across the line, gets a thick inside-edge with the ball making a mess of his stumps. Allen thumps his bat with his gloves and trudges off 43/18.3 Has he taken that? Starc is claiming it! Wowza, that is a top, top catch by the fast bowler Slower and fullish in length outside off, Pandey skims this flat and low to the right of Starc at long-on. He sprints in, dives, gets both hands together and completes a stunner. The third umpire is called to check if Starc has taken that cleanly. Oh, he has. 87/29.4 Straight down Miller's throat and Green's stay in the middle is a brief one. Tossed up outside off stump, Green looks to attack Kuldeep trying to go down the ground. He mistimes it completely and as far as long-off where Miller takes a comfortable catch 96/317.1 direct hit at the bowler's end!! It's the sub fielder Rizvi at long-off. Starc bowled a full ball around off, and Roy drove that back hard and aerially towards long-off. Rizvi picked the ball up and threw it flat. Starc realised it was hitting the stumps and let it be, and it indeed struck to find Powell short 154/713.3 wonderful catch by Stubbs!! Kuldeep on a hat-trick. My first impression was that the ball would fall well short of him at long-off. But Stubbs tip toes his way forward before going low and grabbing the ball barely off the ground. Rinku went inside out at this full ball which was dipping around off, but only managed to chip it aerially for a first-ball duck 128/514.1 bowled!! Dahiya can't capitalise on his drop. This ball keeps low, and smacks his middle and leg stumps. Axar angled it in and bowled short, and Dahiya went pulling from middle and off. But the ball also went on with the angle from around the wicket, and Dahiya got a bottom edge 129/617.2 Starc gets Roy!! He moves to his left, and waits for this skier to dip. This is on the shorter side of a length on off, and Roy went heaving across the line. But the extra bounce meant it took the higher part of the bat, and went straight back up. Easy take for Starc 154/817.4 sliced to mid-off. KKR lose three in the over. Starc angled it in, and fired one very full on the stumps at 142kph. Tyagi had his front leg out of the way, and went lofting by opening the face of the bat. But he toe-ended it to Axar at mid-off as KKR's slide continues 155/918.4 got him!! Axar takes this at extra cover. DC win by 40 runs. Axar moved to his left after turning halfway. Ngidi had bowled a slower ball on a full length outside off. Varun went lofting, but couldn't get that away too far. 163/10Extras5 (w 5)TOTAL163 all out (18.4 Overs, RR: 8.73)Did not bat: SP NarineFall of wickets: 1-43 (Finn Allen, 4.2 ov), 2-87 (Manish Pandey, 8.3 ov), 3-96 (Cameron Green, 9.4 ov), 4-128 (Ajinkya Rahane, 13.2 ov), 5-128 (Rinku Singh, 13.3 ov), 6-129 (Tejasvi Dahiya, 14.1 ov), 7-154 (Rovman Powell, 17.1 ov), 8-154 (Anukul Roy, 17.2 ov), 9-155 (Kartik Tyagi, 17.4 ov), 10-163 (Varun Chakravarthy, 18.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB MA Starc 3 0 26 2 8.66 9 4 1 0 0 Auqib Nabi 2 0 23 0 11.5 6 2 2 0 0 L Ngidi 3.4 0 27 3 7.36 10 5 0 0 0 AR Patel 4 0 38 1 9.5 8 0 4 0 0 M Tiwari 2 0 20 0 10 3 1 1 3 0 Kuldeep Yadav 4 0 29 3 7.25 9 3 0 1 0
Match Details
Toss
Kolkata Knight Riders , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.15, Second Session 21.15-22.45
Match days
24 May 2026 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Delhi Capitals 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 53 runs, 1 wicket)
- Delhi Capitals Impact Player Subs: Tripurana Vijay, Sameer Rizvi, Vipraj Nigam, Nitish Rana and Kuldeep Yadav
- Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Player Subs: Sarthak Ranjan, Vaibhav Arora, Finn Allen, Ramandeep Singh and Rahul Tripathi
- Delhi Capitals: 50 runs in 5.6 overs (36 balls), Extras 2
- Strategic Timeout: Delhi Capitals - 70/1 in 8.0 overs (KL Rahul 31, SU Parakh 15)
- Delhi Capitals: 100 runs in 10.4 overs (64 balls), Extras 2
- KL Rahul: 50 off 25 balls (3 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Strategic Timeout: Delhi Capitals - 140/3 in 15.0 overs (AR Patel 23, DA Miller 5)
- Delhi Capitals: 150 runs in 15.6 overs (96 balls), Extras 6
- Over 18.1: Review by Delhi Capitals (Batting), Decision Challenged - NoBall, Umpire - K Swaroopanand, Batter - DA Miller (Struck down)
- Over 18.2: Review by Kolkata Knight Riders (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wide, Umpire - K Swaroopanand, Batter - AR Sharma (Upheld)
- Over 18.3: Review by Kolkata Knight Riders (Bowling), Decision Challenged - NoBall, Umpire - K Swaroopanand, Batter - AR Sharma (Struck down)
- Delhi Capitals: 200 runs in 19.3 overs (118 balls), Extras 10
- Innings Break: Delhi Capitals - 203/5 in 20.0 overs (AR Sharma 18, T Stubbs 0)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 55 runs, 1 wicket)
- Abishek Porel kept wickets in place of KL Rahul from the start of Kolkata Knight Riders innings
- Delhi Capitals Impact Player Sub: Kuldeep Yadav in for KL Rahul (Delhi Capitals innings, 19.6 ov)
- Over 1.1: Review by Delhi Capitals (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - HAS Khalid, Batter - AM Rahane (Struck down)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 5.2 overs (32 balls), Extras 0
- Strategic Timeout: Kolkata Knight Riders - 87/2 in 8.3 overs (AM Rahane 40)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 10.2 overs (62 balls), Extras 2
- AM Rahane: 50 off 31 balls (3 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Strategic Timeout: Kolkata Knight Riders - 142/6 in 16.0 overs (R Powell 24, AS Roy 2)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 150 runs in 16.6 overs (102 balls), Extras 5
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