The team that wins in today's match will get these two precious points and will qualify for the playoffs with 16 points, while the losing team will have 14 points and will get a place in the playoffs based on the net run rate of the rest of the teams. A total of 54 matches so far have been played in the tournament but Mumbai Indians have only managed to make it to the play-offs. The result of the last 2 league matches will decide which teams out of the the 4 teams -- RCB, DC, KKR and SRH -- will qualify for the play-offs.
Delhi Capitals won the toss and opted to bowl first. Daniel Sams opened the bowling with the new ball in the first over. For Bangalore, Padikkal and Joshua came out in the middle as openers.
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Opener Devdutt Padikkal made 50 off 41 balls with five fours while AB de Villiers scored 35 off 21 deliveries.
Skipper Vira Kohli made 29 and shared a 57-run partnership for the second wicket with Padikkal.
Brief scores: RCB 152/7 wkts in 20 overs (D Padikkal 50, AB de Villiers 35, V Kohli 29, A Nortje 3/33, K Rabada 2/30) vs DC
IPL 2020, DC vs RCB Head to head Stats:
If you look at the head-to-head matches of Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore, the dominance of RCB is clearly visible in it. So far 24 matches have been played between these two teams, in which RCB has been successful in winning against Delhi 9 out of 14 times. But since 2019, Delhi has not lost a single match to RCB. When both these teams met for the first time in IPL 2020, Delhi won by 59 runs over Bangalore.
Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Marcus Stoinis, Daniel Sams, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Josh Philippe, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers(w), Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Shahbaz Ahmed, Chris Morris, Isuru Udana, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal