DC vs RR IPL 2026: Another playoff race twist, Mitchell Starc's 4-fer sinks RR to third loss in a row – Action in Images
DC stay alive and hanging on by a thread late into the season, while also making RR wonder what is going wrong as their fate also hangs in the balance late on.
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Delhi Capitals became the latest team in the bottom half of the table to complicate matters for those fighting in the playoffs. A season double over Rajasthan Royals, pulling off a 194-run chase to keep themselves alive in IPL 2026 while also making matters so much trickier for RR, whose playoff scenario grows complex as questions begin to bubble up.(ANI)
2/8
RR started their innings extremely well despite the early wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi once again dominated the powerplay, especially towards the end as he took down the DC bowlers alongside Dhruv Jurel.(Hindustan Times)
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Things grew complicated in the middle overs as Madhav Tiwari removed Sooryavanshi, continuing his breakout spell at the end of the season playing his all-round role for DC. His bowling in particular impressing, as his hit-the-deck style proved tricky to play against.(Hindustan Times)
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Riyan Parag capitalised in the middle overs, a couple of furious overs of hitting helping him to a half-century on return. At one point, RR were on 160/2 after 14 overs, looking at a score close to 230 once again. (PTI)
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