DC vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2023: Phil Salt's assault helps Delhi Capitals beat RCB by 7 wickets

Mahipal Lomror connects a short delivery by Mitchell Marsh over the fine leg region.

Virat Kohli completes his half-century in 42 balls. RCB: 126/2 (15 overs)

Mahipal Lomror hits Kuldeep Yadav for a four and follows it up with a six.

13 runs come off the over as RCB reach 115/2 in 14 overs.

Ishant Sharma comes into the attack and he is welcomed by Virat Kohli with a boundary. The pacer concedes nine runs in his over as RCB reach 102-2 in 13 overs.

Kuldeep Yadav bowls it short and Mahipal Lomror whacks it for a SIX over the mid-wicket region. 10 runs come off the over as RCB reach 93/2 (12 overs)

Kuldeep Yadav bowls a good 10th over as only seven runs come in it.

Mitchell Marsh comes to bowl the next over and he strikes in consecutive balls. First he gets rid of Faf du Plessis for 45(32), who is caught in the deep by Axar Patel.

He then dismisses Glenn Maxwell in the next ball, who is caught-behind. RCB: 83/2 (11 overs)

Axar Patel beats Du Plessis and immediately asks for a DRS. However, UltraEdge confirms there was no edge, so DC lose their review.

Du Plessis hits the spinner for a four in the next ball. RCB: 72/0 (9 overs)

Kuldeep Yadav comes into the attack and he is welcomed with a boundary by Virat Kohli straightaway. However, the bowler recovers well and gives just three singles in the next five balls. RCB: 64/0 (8 overs)

Warner brings in Mitchell Marsh, who starts with a decent over as six singles come off it. RCB 57-0 (7 overs)

Khaleel Ahmed comes to bowl the final over of the powerplay and Du Plessis hits him for a six and a four. The pair of Kohli and Du Plessis also bring up the 50-run stand as RCB reach 51/0 in 6 overs.

Faf du Plessis hits Mukesh Kumar for three boundaries. The first one is hit towards long-off, the second one towards long-on and the third takes a top edge and flies over the wicketkeeper. RCB: 36/0 (5 overs)

A good over by Axar Patel as no boundaries and just three singles come off it.

Mukesh Kumar is introduced in the attack. RCB: 23/0 (4 overs)

Ishant Sharma now joins the attack. Three new bowlers in the first three overs.

Meanwhile, the pacer starts well as he concedes a single in the first three balls. He then bangs it short against Kohli, who punches it for a four towards the square leg region. RCB: 20/0 (3 overs) 

Delhi introduce Axar Patel in the attack and starts with a decent over until the fourth ball, in which only two singles come. 

Virat Kohli then gets a boundary against the spinner, directing the ball square off the wicket. RCB: 13/0 (2 overs) 

Virat Kohli opens the account with a cracking four, which races towards the cover fence. The ball was in air but wide enough from the fielder stationed inside the 30-yard-circle. RCB: 6/0 (1 over)

Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli walk out in the middle to kick-off the proceedings. 

Khaleel Ahmed will lead the proceedings for RCB.

RCB: Harshal Patel, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Michael Bracewell, Shahbaz Ahmed.

DC: Chetan Sakariya, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Praveen Dubey, Abhishek Porel.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Anuj Rawat, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik(w), Kedar Jadhav, Wanindu Hasaranga, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood

Delhi Capitals: David Warner(c), Philip Salt(w), Mitchell Marsh, Rilee Rossouw, Manish Pandey, Aman Hakim Khan, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed

RCB skipper Faf du Plessis wins toss, opts to bat.

If we look at the RCB line-up, the team has the best opening pair of the season with skipper Faf du Plessis leading from the front and well supported by former captain Virat Kohli.

Du Plessis has so far scored 466 runs, while Kohli has mustered 364 runs so far in the season.

In the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mitchell Marsh registered clinical figures reading 4/27 in four overs. He then smashed 63 off 39 balls. Following his superlative show, Marsh didn't play the next fixture due to illness.

The Delhi management will hope for a similar effort from the all-rounder when they lock horns with RCB.

The match will mark an interesting individual battle between Kuldeep Yadav and Glenn Maxwell.

Kuldeep has dismissed the Aussie four times, while Maxwell has hammered 59 runs against him in 22 deliveries, striking at over 268.

Delhi Capitals will miss the service of Anrich Nortje, who flew back to South Africa on Friday due to personal reasons.

However, the good news for them is that Mitchell Marsh is fit and available for selection. The all-rounder can be seen in the XI in place of Rilee Rossouw.

Kedar Jadhav, who was initially part of the commentary panel, can be seen in action as RCB look to fix their fragile middle-order. 

RCB's middle-order has struggled this time around with the likes of Dinesh Karthik and Mahipal Lomror not being able to fire big. 

Karthik has scored 99 runs in 9 outings, while Lomror has managed 78 from seven matches. Shahbaz Ahmed has chipped in with 42 from eight matches.

Axar Patel has also been doing most of the rescue work for Delhi. The all-rounder has gathered 238 runs from nine matches at a decent average of 34.00 and a strike-rate of 133.70.  

Aman Khan and Ripal Patel emerged as Delhi's unexpected heroes in the previous match. Aman scored 51 off 44 balls, while Ripal played a 13-ball 23 to help Delhi gather enough so that they won the match by five runs.