IPL 2025, DC vs KKR Highlights: Narine powers KKR to 14-run win over DC

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: And it is Kuldeep Yadav of all people at the receiving end of it.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kuldeep Yadav bowls his second in the 13th over and gives away just one run.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer goes for a single digit score. Fullish from Axar, 90kph, angling away outside off. Venkatesh chases it and ends up skying it. Vipraj takes the catch after running back from cover a little bit.

Venkatesh Iyer c Nigam b Patel 7 (5)

KKR 113/4 in 9.2 overs

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Three dot balls to start the ninth over in which Nigam continues. Then Raghuvanshi hits it over the bowler for a six. Inside out over cover next ball for another six. The batters run two last ball and Raghuvanshi is on 21 off nine balls, Venkatesh Iyer at the other end on five off three balls.

KKR 111/3 in 9 overs

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Captain gets captain! Axar brings himself on for the eighth over, his second ball was a length delivery from around the wicket, lands outside off and skids straight. Rahane beaten on the flick and struck on the pads. He walks off even before the umpire raises his finger.

Rahane lbw b Patel 26 (14)

KKR 91/2 in 7.2 overs

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Narine slogs across the line fourth ball of the seventh bowled by Vipraj Nigam. It straightened just a bit after landing on middle and struck Narine on the pads. Nigam didn't even need to appeal properly for the umpire to raise his finger and Narine doesn't even bother with considering a review either. As plumb as they come.

Narine lbw b Nigam 27 (16)

KKR 85/2 in 6.4 overs

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahane with fours off the first two balls of the last over of powerplay bowled by Mukesh. Just three more runs in that over but that completes an incredible powerplay for KKR. Rahane is on 21 off 10 balls at the end of it, Narine on 26 off 14.

KKR 79/1 in 6 overs

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane has been quite sensational away from home and we have just got to see some of that. Rahane sweeps the fourth ball of that over and sends it sailing over square leg for a six. Starc misses the yorker fifth ball, Rahane flicks the full toss through midwicket for four. He is on 12 off five, Narine on 25 off 13.

KKR 68/1 in 5 overs

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Just six runs off the fourth over bowled by Mukesh Kumar and then Starc continues for a third over. His first delivery hits Narine right flush on the exposed area between the pads and the thigh pad. He limps to the other end for a leg bye.

Narine on 25 off 12, Ajinkya Rahane on 0 off one.

KKR 55/1 in 4.1 overs

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Big celebrations there from DC even as the umpires remain unsure. Gurbaz hit a four and a six off the fourth and fifth balls, to add to the four he hit off the second ball, in that over. Then a yorker length delivery from Starc, Gurbaz jammed his bat down and replays show that there was an edge before it went to wicketkeeper Porel's right. He took the catch with the ball hovering just above the ground. A very good effort and that ends a dangerous-looking opening stand.

Gurbaz c Abishek Porel b Starc 26 (12)

KKR 48/1 in 3 overs

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Well that escalated quickly. Narine faces his first delivery first ball of that over, it was full and down leg side. Narine goes leg side and sends it over the bowler for a six. The next ball is wide down leg after which the batters run two. Then Narine sends the third ball just over the leaping midwicket fielder. The fourth ball is wide down leg as well and then Narine hits him over midwicket for another six. He gets off strike next ball and then Gurbaz hits the last ball through covers for four.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: And a four to begin as well. Starc swings in the first delivery of the match but it is overpitched, Gurbaz drives it back past the bowler with the full face of the bat for a first-ball four. Then he square drives the last ball through point for another four, making eight runs off the first over.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sunil Narine open for KKR, Mitchell Starc will be bowling the first over for DC. He has a friendly handshake with Narine while giving the umpire his hat.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane: “We have one change, Anukul Roy comes in. It's hard to read the wicket, I thought the left-arm spinner will be a good option on this surface. We need to win five out of five, as simple as that. We are looking to play one game at a time and we will move forward accordingly. It's hard to read this wicket. Need to adapt to the conditions and assess quickly.”

Axar Patel: “We will field first, becomes easier to bat in the second innings because of the dew. We are playing with the same XI. I think it's a slow wicket, doesn't look dry. Think a 190-200 pitch. Will assess the conditions and try to restrict them to a lower total. You need to stay in the present. We wanted to focus on the process, not worry about the result. Need to excecute our plans.”

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Rovman Powell, Harshit Rana, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakaravarthy

Impact Subs: Manish Pandey, Luvnith Sisodia, Mayank Markande, Vaibhav Arora, Ramandeep Singh

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel(w), Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Dushmantha Chameera, Mukesh Kumar

Impact Subs: Ashutosh Sharma, Jake Fraser McGurk, Tripurana Vijay, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Axar Patel has thrown the coin halfway to the boundary almost and Rahane calls it wrong. Delhi Capitals are bowling first.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Star Sports aired an interview that Faf du Plessis with the broadcasters some time back. Here is what he said: "This IPL hasn't been like the ones (in terms of fitness) I have had before. There have been a couple of niggles, but happy to be back on the park, today is a really big game for us. We haven't had back-to-back losses this season, so we need to get that 'W' back today. You want to have that established opening combination at the top, but for various reasons we have had quite a lot of openers this season. Hopefully we can now start finding consistency with our roles, especially in the next 3-4 games leading in those knockouts. The nice thing is that everyone has performed at different stages, that's also a blessing in disguise when it comes to our batting unit. At the moment we are not relying on one person. The previous game we played here against RCB, the wicket was very slow and low, especially in that first innings. There was some dew at the backend. That wicket would have been the perfect wicket for KKR, hopefully we get a wicket that's not as same as the previous one. The guys persuaded me to be on the field, hopefully you will see me the next game at long-off."

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Nick Knight says the surface for tonight is slightly better than the one vs MI, RCB. That was drier-looking, this is more compact and has sheen. So, the wicket will hold together a bit more. DC wanted to play MI on a slower surface, but here against KKR they have been specific and play on a better surface that's not going to bring in Narine or Chakravarthy into the game as much. He expects a 180-plays-180 game. It's not a belter but Knight expects the score to be higher than 162.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Andre Russell hasn't been at his best this season and he was the first to hit the nets for KKR before today, facing a variety of throwdowns. He has an incredible record against Mitch Starc in the IPL. Russell hasn't been dismissed yet by the left-arm pacer in all T20s and has scored 55 runs off 23 balls at a strike rate of 239.13.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: As stated earlier, DC started the season off by winning four games on the trot. But things haven't gone their way ever since they actually started playing in Delhi. In their three matches at the Arun Jaitley Stadium so far, they have lost two and their only win came via a Super Over.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Like DC, KKR have not got much of a leg up from their opening combinations. They have tried three players in those positions and average 19.87. This makes them one of just two teams who have a lower opening average than DC, the other being CSK (19.77)

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kuldeep Yadav operates mostly in the middle overs and if Sunil Narine has survived till then, it probably means that he has either hardly got strike in the powerplay or done a lot of damage in it. Kuldeep has been able to stop him dead in his tracks though. He has bowled just three deliveries to Narine in two innings and dismissed him off two of those.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine is the second-most succesfull bowler against DC in terms of number of wickets taken. He has struck 24 times against them. Well, in a way he is the fourth-most succesfull because at the top are three bowlers with 27 wickets: Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah and Piyush Chawla.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane has scored 205 runs in four innings, with an average of 51.25 and a strike rate of 158.91 at Eden Gardens in this edition. However, in away matches, he has only 66 runs in four innings, averaging 22 with a strike rate of 117.85.