New Delhi: Delhi Capitals score was 9/6 at the end of four overs. 13/6 at the end of 6 overs of the power play. Which is the lowest in IPL history.
What happened in IPL (IPL 2026) on Monday at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi is unbelievable! A KL Rahul, Tristan Stubbs-rich batting line-up crumbled against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Batting first, Delhi’s innings ended with just 75 runs in 16.3 overs.
Benazir’s batting was a disaster for Delhi Capitals against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Monday. No other team has had such a batting collapse in the power play in the history of IPL. At one point, Delhi were 9/6 in 4 overs. At that time, it seemed that the minimum score of 49 runs of RCB in the IPL will not be surpassed by Delhi!
RCB won the toss and decided to field first. Their two fast bowlers – Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood – became fearsome with the new ball. Delhi Capitals’ batting skeleton came out after the shock of the pair. 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.
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.
Opener Sahil Park 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) failed to bat. The highest score for Delhi was a Bengali. He, Abhishek Porde. IPLDelhi kept the youth of Chandannagar. Benazir was dropped as an impact player after his batting disaster on Monday. He scored 30 runs off 33 balls before being bowled by Hazlewood. Hazelwood’s 4 wickets for 12 runs. Three victims for 5 runs.
