DC vs GT Highlights, IPL 2026: Delhi Capitals lose by 1 run, David Miller's late error against former team costs match

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Great batting! Far more free flowing and confident from Buttler, who is not allowing himself to fall into a shell. Takes on the DC captain, first over cover then high over midwicket.

4, 6, GT moving. 40/1 after 4.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Buttler needed that! First over of his strike and he takes down Mukesh for a six.

Next ball, KL Rahul hit on the thumb – james it and needs some attention.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Mukesh Kumar does strike!!! This was a key battle heading into this game, and it is the DC pacer who wins! Just a little bit of width, Sudharsan tries to cut, but it's too close to him – off the inside edge and into the stumps.

They scored 205 together last time, but only 19 today. Mukesh with the early win.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Pure timing from Sudharsan on the first ball! On his legs and he clips Mukesh for four. Two balls later, Gill gets width and hammers a cut for four more.

11 off the first over.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Captain Axar leads the huddle, the umpires walk out, and followed close behind by Messrs Gill and Sudharsan. They had an unbeaten 205-run partnership at this venue last year – can they recreate that? Not if Mukesh Kumar has his way. Here we go at the Kotla!

DC vs GT LIVE Score: No changes for DC – don't upset the combination that is producing results.

KL Rahul (wk), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel (C), Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar

Impact players: Rizvi, Ashutosh, Karun Nair, Chameera, Auqib Nabi

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Simple for GT, Gill comes in for Kushagra. Prasidh Krishna will start off the bench.

Shubman Gill (C), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Ashok Sharma, Mohammed Siraj

Impact players: Prasidh, Holder, Suthar, Jayant Yadav, Rawat

DC vs GT LIVE Score: News from the middle! Three out of three tosses, and three out of three times DC bowl first. Gill reveals they wanted to bat first anyway. DC unchanged, team news next.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Live pictures from the Arun Jaitley Stadium and it looks like great news – largely clear skies, dry pitch, teams warming up, and looking all set for action. Should be a straight 40-over contest – buckle in!

DC vs GT LIVE Score: The instinct can often be to stick with the combination that is working and producing results – but DC in 2025 also realised a little too late that sticking with players performing to find their rhythm can prove to be detrimental. Playing good cricket takes precedence over finding results, esepcially when the team has a safety net of two early wins. With that in mind, there is a decision to be made at number three – do they persist with the struggling Nitish Rana, or go with Abishek Porel, Karun Nair, or even Ashutosh Sharma? DC will want to answer this quickly.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: 30 mins before Axar Patel and Shubman Gill will meet in the middle for the coin-toss. The pitch being reported for the day is one which has seen a scoring rate in excess of 10 over the last two IPLs, and that in conjunction with the slight coolness and presence of rain in Delhi means it should be a pretty straightforward call to want to bowl first. Both these teams enjoy chasing – shouldn't be anything different in the middle tonight.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: To beat GT, one thing is a non-negotiable – one, if not two, of their top three has to be dismissed cheaply. In 2025, the GT top three managed to reach the 15th over intact over and over again, and managed to win most of their matches on the back of that. Even in 2026, they have reached the halfway stage in each batting innings with only one wicket down, but proceeded to struggle a touch more in the overs that follow.

For DC, they know the key is to spark early new-ball wickets. For this, they will turn to in-form Mukesh Kumar, who is finding movement and potency in the powerplay, and also keeping the scoring tight.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Sameer Rizvi is Delhi's man in form, but the pattern of his two innings thus far has been to take his time at the start of his innings, before exploding with runs as it progresses, picking boundaries with ease. If allowed time to settle, he has the ability to manufacture boundaries at will – so the time to get him out is early, when he still looks awkward, and hasn't quite found the pace of the pitch. Against LSG and MI alike, he struggled with hard-length balls at pace, and GT have access to a couple of bowlers who star with that kind of delivery – particularly Krishna, who has bowled late-on in innings, and should be brought on to target this weakness.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: One thing about KL Rahul, amidst all the criticism and questions over his strike rate and his batting position, is that he will score runs. A perennial Orange Cap candidate and a player who is often impossible to get out, he has started IPL 2026 in a very un-KL way. A first-ball duck against Shami and LSG, followed by a score of 1 against MI.

KL is never too far away from finding runs under his belt, and GT is a team he enjoyed himself against last year. It wasn't the most fluent century, but it wasn't a slow one either – he clearly wants to be the dynamic, ultra-attacking player that has been demanded of him in the past, but key for him and DC is that he starts contributing in some shape or form.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Gujarat have gone into the tournament with an overseas composition of Jos Buttler, Glenn Phillips, Rashid Khan, and Kagiso Rabada. But wiht question marks over the depth of their batting unit, there have been calls to replace Rabada with the hitting ability and power of all-rounder Jason Holder. The argument is that while GT have plenty of domestic fast-bowling talent, their lower order batting simply isn't cutting it – an average of 20 for their numbers 4-7 in the last couple of years.

Could Holder come in, or will Gill and co. back Rabada against his former team?

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Premium spinners are hard to come by in the IPL, and DC have two of them – Indian internationals in Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav, supported well by young Vipraj Nigam. Spin can single-handedly win games, and Delhi seem to want to make the Kotla pitch one which assists their great strength – meaning gone are the short-boundary roads of the past which allowed for run-scoring at will. Batting with application is key at this venue, but DC trust their spin group to always produce the results through all phases of the innings.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Monday's match in Kolkata was washed out after 4 overs, and yesterday's match in Guwahati was shortened to 11-a-side. Unseasonal showers have been affecting northern India, and yesterday saw heavy showers in Delhi as well.

But the good news is that while there is some expectation for light rain in the hours leading up to the time of the match, the evening itself is expected to be clear and good to go. Hopefully, fingers crossed, a full 40-over game at the Kotla tonight.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: In 2025, GT chased down scores just in excess of 200 twice against Delhi – first at home thanks to Jos Buttler doing what he does best, but more emphatically later on at this very venue in New Delhi. After KL Rahul's century had set a target of 200, GT's openers didn't even break a sweat. Sai Sudharsan cut and drove his way to his own century, looking unflappable, and Shubman Gill quietly registered 93* of his own. In a year where their partnership was so impressive, this was the magnum opus.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: Gujarat Titans have made a good fist of things against two of the better teams in the league, but fallen short both times: they were off the pace against Punjab Kings but fought back thanks to a sensational Prasidh Krishna spell, before taking the chase against Rajasthan down to the last few balls despite losing wickets. On both occasions, they know an incident here or there could have earned them the win, but they haven't quite gotten over the line. A good team, they are due a result – and will be eager for one they did the double against in 2025.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: The list of players who have won three consecutive player of the match awards for their IPL teams is a who's who of 20-over cricket. Sameer Rizvi joined that list, adding match-winning knocks against LSG and MI after ending 2025 strong for DC – three consecutive 50+ scores in three consecutive successful chases, and a player gradually realising his potential with 70* and 90 this year.

Rizvi is red-hot at number four for the team from the NCR, and thanks to him, four points are on the board – but there are still problems to solve.

DC vs GT LIVE Score: After a pair of rain-interrupted games, the IPL caravan rolls on. Two teams on opposite ends of the table, and the result quietly a key one for each at this early juncture of the tournament. Delhi Capitals host Gujarat Titans in Delhi, and there is plenty to talk about – and the radar to keep an eye on. Follow along for all the updates.