IPL 2025, PBKS vs DC Highlights: Sameer Rizvi's maiden IPL 50 guides sensational chase, PBKS top two hopes in jeopardy

PBKS vs DC Live Score: Wadhera was being kept quiet out there, and wasn't quite connecting as he was last weekend. Tries to loft straight down, but early into the shot and pops it into the air. Faf gets under it and completes a good catch.

118-4.

PBKS vs DC Live Score: DC turn to pace after the spinners get a touch of tonk. Nice over from Mohit to keep it relatively quiet. Very delicately balanced at the moment.

PBKS vs DC Live Score: Really awkward wicket! Prabhsimran tries to scoop the leggie, who sees it and fires it in at off-stump. Nowhere near it, sneaks through his legs, and knocks his off-stump back.

Prabhsimran had gotten a start but has not capitalised. 77-3 after 8 overs.

PBKS vs DC Live Score: Sharp from Stubbs in his first match with the gloves on! Vipraj gets hit for a six then four in his first two balls, but is clever as he sees Inglis step down on the third. Fires it down leg, and Stubbs does brilliantly to cover and whip the bails off.

55-2 now, DC fight back just as PBKS got the motor going.

PBKS vs DC Live Score: First six as Inglis picks the Fizz over square leg, PBKS have gotten going.

Another half chance last bal of that over, Inglis drives it at a chatchable height, but the bowler can't hang on. Could he have done a little better there?

PBKS vs DC Live Score: DC's pressure telling but PBKS will feel more settled with a couple of boundaries. Prabh, twice, and Inglis both survive half-chances that don't quite go to hand.

21-1 after 3.

PBKS vs DC Live Score: There's a wicket! And DC rewarded for a strong opening burst. Mustafizur with a surprise effort bouncer, rushes Priyansh who can only splice it straight up. Stubbs has to backpedal, but he keeps his eyes on it and completes a good catch with the mitts.

10-1 after 2, Inglis in at 3.

PBKS vs DC Live Score: Nice and tight from Mukesh early on, only boundary is a streaky outside edge. Doesn't let Priyansh open his arms.

PBKS vs DC Live Score: Big task here for a light-looking DC bowling unit, they will need early wickets so that Kuldeep Yadav can attack through the middle.

No Rahul or Porel, so Stubbs with the gloves for DC tonight. Here we go!

PBKS vs DC Live Score: A debut for Sediq Atal who will come in at the top, and DC going heavy with the batting. Only the five bowling options in their lineup, Tristan Stubbs with the gloves as Porel misses out and KL Rahul on the bench.

DC playing XI: Faf du Plessis (c), Sediqullah Atal, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Mustafizur Rahman, Mukesh Kumar

Bench: KL Rahul, Manvanth Kumar, T Vijay, Darshan Nalkande, Ajay Mandal

PBKS vs DC Live Score: Inglis and Stoinis back in as expected, but Omarzai keeps his place.

PBKS playing XI: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer (c), Josh Inglis (wk), Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh

Bench: Pravin Dubey, Suryansh Shedge, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Xavier Bartlett, Kyle Jamieson

PBKS vs DC Live Score: No Axar Patel to see out the tournament, a shame for Delhi Capitals as Faf du Plessis appears for the toss. Good news for Punjab with Shreyas Iyer fit despite a hurt finger.

It's Faf who wins the toss, and opts to chase in Jaipur. PBKS won't be too disappointed batting first.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: Punjab welcome back some of their overseas stars including Inglis and Stoinis, who could be back in the lineup today ahead of the likes of Mitch Owen and Omarzai.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: DC's biggest issue all tournament has been failures in the top order leading to chopping and changing. Several of these players will want to solidify their spot in the picture for the team next year, particularly Faf du Plessis and Abishek Porel, and this is the last chance to do so. Porel has gotten starts, but no big scores this tournament, and that must change for the southpaw keeper.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: 30 mins from when the captains — be that Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel, or potentially Shashank Singh and Faf du Plessis — head to the centre. As mentioned earlier, teams might look at runs on the board as key, but in these evening games, they usually prefer to know what they are chasing. Will be interesting to see what decision is made.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: Shreyas Iyer will undoubtedly be bemused at not being given a shot in the Test team announced for England today, given his domestic form and his leadership credentials. With KL Rahul and Karun Nair on the other team having made it through, Shreyas will want to make a statement that says he belongs on that tour. Against a former team, will he be inclined to produce some of his best cricket?

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: Axar Patel was a huge, huge miss for Delhi in their loss to Mumbai on a pitch that was turning square, both as a bowler and as an extremely capable hitter against spin. Moreover, losing the captain must have had an effect as well. Kept out by an illness that saw him miss training on the eve of the match in Jaipur as well, DC will be hoping Axar is available to salvage something from this season today.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: In 5 games thus far at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, the average first innings score has been exactly 200. A run of three consecutive games with 200+ first innings totals has meant that this has been a bat-first friendly track, with plenty of runs on offer — but chasing isn't particularly difficult either, with teams still in it even while chasing 200-210. Both teams will be aware of this, and might therefore aim for 220+. PBKS certainly have the capability, but DC will have to prove that they have the consistent firepower to match that.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: Although the 10 overs from that match have been purged given the relocation and reset, Punjab will also have confidene from knowing what kind of start they had in Dharamsala from their openers. That was a DC team with Starc, on a run-friendly pitch similar to Jaipur. Can they repeat the trick?

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: Two of the original IPL clubs, the Northern Derby is as tight as it gets. Two of the three original teams never to get their hands on an IPL trophy, they are joined at the hip with PBKS having beaten Delhi 17 times, but DC right behind them with 16 wins of their own.

Will it be PBKS to open up some daylight in this rivalry or can DC pull level with a win to further complicate things in Jaipur?

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: Punjab and Delhi last faced off in their respective opening games of the IPL 2024 season, and it would be PBKS running out victors in their first ever game at the new PCA Stadium in Mullanpur. On that day, DC limped their way to 174, thanks to a blitzy Abishek Porel 32*(10), but that was never enough to defend. Solid innings from Sam Curran and Liam Livingstone guided Punjab home in the last over of their chase. DC still look fairly similar, but this is a very different Punjab team.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: One team unbeaten in 4, against another winless in 5. Surely this only goes one way? After starting their season 6-2 and having an 86% chance of qualifying as per statistical estimates, Delhi have lost 4 and gotten away with a no-result in their last 5 games, and looked nowhere close to winning in several of those.

It has been a head-scratcher, with not too much changing. But a lack of consistency and reliability particularly in the top order has been a root concern throughout this miserable run going back a month.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: Delhi Capitals haven't had a season where they've had more wins than losses since 2021. In two of the last three years, they finished with an even record. The team will feel it is far too good to regress, especially after the start they had. They will want to be one of the teams who can claim to have won more often than they lost, with that fact capable of providing serious momentum in 2026.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: It was quite the opposite story for DC. In a must-win game, the capital team played terrifically for 18 overs to limit MI at the Wankhede. After that, it fell apart. Momentum swung MI's way with 48 runs off the last two overs, and DC never recovered as early wickets and a middle order collapse against spin left them reeling. 

DC's manner of defeat in their two games since the resumption will be what disappoints the players and fans the most, not meeting their own standard through the tournament at all.

PBKS vs DC Live Updates: PBKS will have taken a lot of heart from their win against RR at the same venue last weekend. Neither innings started well at all, as they were three wickets down cheaply with bat, before being attacked relentlessly while bowling.

Nevertheless, the fightback and the ability to hang in the game will be a point of pride. Nehal Wadhera continues to establish himself as a high-quality middle order domestic batter, while Harpreet Brar provided a typical match-winning spell that always seems to be up his sleeve.

It was a tight victory, but one to take plenty of confidence away from.