New Delhi: Some say, is this really happening, or are you dreaming? Some people wanted to see pinched, such an event is not his imagination!
How can IPL (IPL 2026) be explained on Monday?
Benazir’s batting disaster for Delhi Capitals against Royal Challengers Bangalore. No other team has had such a batting collapse in the power play in the history of IPL.
RCB won the toss and elected to field first at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi. RCB’s two fast bowlers – Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood became terrifying as new balls. A couple of shocks revealed the skeleton of the Delhi Capitals batting. At the end of 6 overs of power play, the score of Delhi Capitals stands at 13/6! Lowest team score on power play in IPL history. In 2009 against RCB, Rajasthan Royals power play score was 14/2. Sunrisers Hyderabad went 14/3 against Rajasthan Royals in 2022. Both records were broken on Monday.
Only once in IPL history has a team lost 6 wickets in a power play. Kochi Tuskers Kerala lost 6 wickets in 1-6 overs against Deccan Chargers in Kochi in 2011. Then on Monday, Delhi’s 6-wicket loss against RCB was a shameful batting disaster.
The team’s top 6 batsmen scored a total of 7 runs, the second lowest in IPL history. In 2011 Kochi Tuskers Kerala’s first 6 batters scored 4 runs against Deccan Chargers in Kochi.
Bhuvneshwar and Hazelwood – both took 3 wickets each in the power play. This is the first time in IPL that two bowlers of a team took 3 wickets each in the power play.
Bhubi took the wicket of Delhi debutant Sahil Parkh in the first over. Bhubi is second in the list of most wicket takers in the first over in IPL. Trent Boult at the top. Boult took 32 wickets in the first over in IPL. Bhuvneshwar has 29 wickets. Deepak Chahar IPLHe has 16 wickets in the first over and Praveen Kumar has 15 wickets. They are number three and four respectively in the list.
At one point at the end of 4 overs Delhi Capitals score was 9/6. It went viral on social media. Opener Sahil Park scored 0 (2 balls), KL Rahul 1 (3 balls), Nitish Rana 1 (9 balls), Sameer Rizvi 0 (1 ball), Tristan Stubbs 5 (3 balls) and Akshar Patel 0 (3 balls).
