RR vs DC Highlights IPL 2026: DC register their largest ever chase, end losing streak with KL Rahul's well-paced innings

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Jamieson goes super full early to Sooryavanshi, but it's a half-volley more than anything. Crunched straight back for four.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Sooryavanshi doesn't see Starc just yet. Will have to wait at least another over.

DC have an opening – can Jamieson down the other end produce something?

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Mitchell Starc misses the attempted yorker by a lot – it's a full-toss at upper thigh height, and Jaiswal can only skew it straight up for the bowler to grab himself!

Just 10cm odd from where it would have been a no-ball. Tough luck for Jaiswal.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Not the start Mitchell Starc wanted! Runs in, puts it on a langth, and Jaiswal is ready for it – swivel-oull sent for six!

What a start.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Slightly perplexing team combination from DC, who drop experience and finishing power in Miller.

DC XI: KL Rahul (wk), Pathum Nissanka, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs, Nitish Rana, Axar Patel (c), Ashutosh Sharma, Kyle Jamieson, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan

Impact: David Miller, Vipraj Nigam, Karun Nair, Abishek Porel, Auqib Nabi Dar

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Rajasthan batting first, and it's a familiar team, except no Hetmyer. Three overseas from the outset today.

RR XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Riyan Parag (c), Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Shubham Dubey, Jofra Archer, Ravi Bishnoi, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma

Impact: Adam Milne, Dasun Shanaka, Ravi Singh, Yash Raj Punja, Tushar Deshpande

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Surprising call at the toss – indeed, RR want to try and defend a total tonight! Parag opts to bat first, citing dryness in the wicket and expecting it to slow up.

Team news next.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: The RR have been largely successful thus far has been their ability to score quick runs with the bat at the top of the order, which as the succesful teams will show you is quickly becoming the way to play in the IPL. But more important than that is how they manage to curtail opposition runs early, thanks to the ability with the new ball that Jofra Archer and Nandre Burger possess. Against DC, a team not known for starting quick, they could cause more early damage by removing KL Rahul and his batting mates – but equally, striking at 185 this season, Rahul knows it is time he takes responsibility squarely on his shoulders as the senior batter in this team.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: 30 mins to go until Axar Patel and Riyan Parag meet in the middle for the coin flip. The Sawai Mansingh Stadium has tended to be a stadium where the chasing team has found joy in hauling down targets even on the bigger end of the spectrum – that should be the direction both teams take, although RR won't mind trying to defend a total and get some reps in that way either.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: For DC, there is a selection dilemma to be had regarding how they structure their team. The four overseas players look set – Stubbs, Miller, Starc, and Ngidi. KL Rahul at the top, Axar Patel as captain, and Kuldeep Yadav as their star spinner and T Natarajan as their death go-to are going nowhere either. But the rest of the lineup has plenty of options – that's the good thing about the depth of the squad.

Do they give young Sahil Parakh another chance? Have Sameer Rizvi and/or Nitish Rana run out of time? Is Ashutosh Sharma a must-have in that lower-middle order? And who do you turn to for the last Indian seam option with both Auqib and Mukesh getting punishment?

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Rajasthan's batting form in their first four games was supreme, but has since fallen to the wayside a touch – Dhruv Jurel has the tendency of getting stuck at times, and they aren't getting the punch through the middle of the order they would like. RR should consider pushing Shimron Hetymer up to no. 3, a position where he thrived for the Windies in the World Cup, which would allow Jurel to play more seam – his more favourable matchup, lower down the order at number five. A small change that could give them a boost, even if it means a top three of all lefties – but SRH have shown that can work.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Delhi started off with their bowling looking like their strength, but suddenly things have started looking concerning – partially to do with tactics, with Ngidi's injury, but also with that top-end pace not being available to them. With Starc joining the group ahead of this match and now ready to bowl, they have addressed that problem – but the hope is that he is able to inspire a real charge, and get DC back on track in a major way.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: The last time these two teams met in the IPL was an absolute classic at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Delhi Capitals looked set to lose the match before Mitchell Starc's pinpoint death bowling somehow created a Super Over out of nothing, RR's struggles with closing out matches coming to hurt them at this point in time. They were only able to score 11 in their Super Over, which KL Rahul and then Tristan Stubbs wrapped up with a massive six.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: RR were going through a tricky spell of three losses in four matches with some disappointing performances going into a key match against PBKS. Needing a win to stay afloat and clear of the chasing pack, RR delivered with a scintillating chase – most of the lineup contributed with useful innings even if nobody scored a massive one, with Donovan Ferreira and Shubham Dubey finishing things off in a composed manner to bring them the points. Still need to sharpen some things up, but looking very good.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: Sunrisers, Punjab, and Bengaluru have beaten Delhi in each of their last three games – three powerful teams, sure, but it was about the manner in which DC have been beaten that will concern fans. Never looking in the game chasing a big total against SRH, before scoring 264 but seeing it chased down relatively easily, and then finally the batting collapsing and being bowled out for 75 when it could have been far fewer against RCB.

Going back through their last six games, DC have five losses – a campaign that has completely lost steam midway through, and now needs to fight and kick.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: As we head into Match 43, the table has a very distinct top 4 – Punjab Kings on 13 points, followed by RCB, RR, and SRH sitting right below on 12. GT caught up a little bit onto 10 points, but are on something of an island in fifth; in sixth and seventh, tied on 6 points, are CSK and DC, with DC's NRR getting slaughtered last time out. KKR are not far behind on 5 points, while MI and LSG's struggles see them bring up the rear on 4 points respectively.

RR vs DC LIVE Score: It's a big day for Delhi Capitals – a fourth loss in a row all but already knocks them out of the running for the playoffs. If they wish to stay alive, they need to come good against a powerful Rajasthan Royals team in Jaipur – but easier said than done when the Boss Baby Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is staring you down. It's a big game on a Friday night – stay tuned!