
In match 24 Delhi Capitals defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their home ground giving the team their second home defeat. Royal Challengers Bengaluru started the season by winning against defending champions KKR and later defeated CSK, MI. Playing in five games RCB has lost two games at home. First against GT and now DC.
On the other hand, Delhi Capitals are yet to face defeat in Indian Premier League 2025. DC won the game as KL Rahul remained not out as he scored 93 runs off 53 balls. DC has won all four games and are on second place in the league table. RCB committed numerous similar errors in this game, which cost them the victory. Hence on that note, we discuss the three major errors that caused RCB to lose.
1. Fall of sudden wickets
RCB had a good start in the match after winning the toss. Phil Salt and Virat Kohli had given the team a good start but an miss communication error by Virat led to running out of inform batter Phil Salt. Before this RCB scored 61 runs but suddenly a setback took place and RCB got into trouble. The team managed to score only 74 runs in power playovers and lost three wickets. Both Liam Livingston and Jitesh Shamra could not score runs and wasted time in the middle which led the team to score 163 runs.
2. Failed to capitalize on the advantage
After putting 163 runs on the scoreboard, RCB gave a big blow to DC’s top order as Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, and Abishek Porel got out quickly. By the time of 4th over DC scored 30 runs and lost 3 wickets. Meanwhile new batter at the crease KL Rahul was also dropped on 5 runs and this cost RCB the match.
3. KL Rahul getting a chance
DC was in struggle when KL Rahul cam to bat. However he got a chance as he was dropped on 5 runs by RCB captain Rajat Patidar. AFter getting second chance KL Rahul changed his gear and went on to score 93 runs from 53 balls. Before that he was sensible as his score 29 runs and29 balls. He took the advantage of M. Chinnaswamy Stadium which happens to be his home ground as well.
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