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Delhi Capitals Beat Rajasthan Royals By 7 Wickets: In the 43rd match of IPL 2026, Delhi Capitals has defeated Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets. The visiting team chased the target of 226 runs with 5 balls remaining and returned to the winning path. This is the biggest victory of DC team while chasing the target. Earlier, this 2025 team had chased the target of 210 runs against Lucknow Supergiants.

Jailwas-Suryavanshi flopped

Rajasthan Royals captain Ryan Parag won the toss and decided to bat first, but Mitchell Starc gave the biggest blow to his opener Yashasvi Jaiswal. This Australian pacer, playing his first match of IPL 2026, caught and bowled him on a personal score of just 6 runs. Vaibhav Suryavanshi also could not last long, he was clean bowled by Kiwi bowler Kyle Jameson on the personal score of 4 runs.

Parag’s brilliant innings

In this difficult time, Dhruv Jurel and Ryan Parag kept Rajasthan’s sinking ship afloat, while Jurel scored 42 runs in 30 balls, while Parag, playing a captaincy innings, played a brilliant inning of 90 runs in 50 balls. He was moving towards a century when Mitchell Starc made him his victim. Starc also sent Ravindra Jadeja (20 runs) to the pavilion.

Ferreira’s storm

After this, the magic of Donovan Ferreira was seen, playing fast, he scored an unbeaten 47 runs with the help of 2 fours and 6 sixes in just 14 balls, during which his strike rate was 335.71. Due to this inning, Rajasthan posted a total of 225 on the scoreboard after losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. Talking about bowling, for Delhi, Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets, Kyle Jameson, T Natarajan and Akshar Patel took 1 wicket each.

DC’s century opening partnership

Chasing the huge target of 226 runs, Delhi Capitals got off to a great start, with openers Pathum Nissanka and KL Rahul adding 110 runs for the first wicket. DC got its first blow on the third ball of the 10th over when Ravindra Jadeja got Nissanka out LBW on a personal score of 62 runs (33 balls).

Delhi’s great victory

Even after this, the pace of Delhi’s runs did not stop, there was a partnership of 61 runs between Nitish Rana and KL Rahul, who came at number three. However, due to playing a wrong shot, he became the victim of Tushar Deshpande on the personal score of 33 runs. Then Rahul was out on the bowling of Joffra Archer after scoring 75 runs in 40 balls. Tristan Stubbs and Ashutosh Sharma took Delhi Capitals to the threshold of victory. DC made a total of 226/3 in 19.1 overs. KL Rahul was given ‘Player of the Match’ and ‘Orange Cap’ for this brilliant innings.

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