IPL 2025 DC vs RCB | Krunal’s heroics propel Royal Challengers Bengaluru to the high

Earlier than Sunday (April 27, 2025), Krunal Pandya had batted in simply 4 of 9 matches for Royal Challengers Bengaluru on this 12 months’s IPL and scored 24 runs off 28 balls. He made up for his lack of runs and batting alternatives within the earlier matches by coming to the fore in opposition to Delhi Capitals on the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Chasing 163, the all-rounder’s unbeaten 73 off 47 balls delivered a important six-wicket win for the customer. It stretches RCB’s excellent away report this 12 months to 6 wins out of six.

When Krunal walked in to bat at No. 5, RCB was in a spot of trouble at 26 for 3. However with Virat Kohli, the grasp of such chases, for firm, the left-hander was in a position to play a defining hand. They put collectively 119 runs for the fourth wicket. Kohli’s total contribution was 51.

With the floor not the sort the place a batter might blaze away, it was principally with ones and twos that the 2 saved the scoreboard ticking within the formative levels of their alliance.

It was within the thirteenth over, bowled by Mukesh Kumar, that Krunal sparked a shift in momentum with two straight sixes — a swivelled pull over quick fine-leg was adopted by a thumping drive over long-off. Within the subsequent over, Kuldeep Yadav bore the brunt as Krunal drove over additional cowl for an additional six.

There might have been a twist within the story had Abhishek Porel held onto a catch to ship again Krunal within the sixteenth over. However that didn’t materialise.

Krunal performed his half with the ball, too, with figures of 4-0-28-1. That Capitals have been saved to 162 for eight was additionally all the way down to pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood making key inroads.

For Delhi Capitals, Okay.L. Rahul was the top-scorer, however his contribution of 41 off 39 deliveries didn’t hit the excessive notes anticipated of him. If not for a late blitz from Tristan Stubbs, who scored 34 off 18 balls and went after 

Yash Dayal in a 19-run penultimate over, Capitals would have completed with far fewer on the board.

SCOREBOARD

DELHI CAPITALS

Abishek Porel c Jitesh b Hazlewood 28 (11b, 2×4, 2×6), Faf du Plessis c Kohli b Krunal 22 (26b, 2×4), Karun Nair c Bhuvneshwar b Dayal 4 (4b, 1×4), Okay.L. Rahul c Bethell b Bhuvneshwar 41 (39b, 3×4), Axar Patel b Hazlewood 15 (13b, 1×4, 1×6), Tristan Stubbs c Hazlewood b Bhuvneshwar 34 (18b, 5×4, 1×6), Ashutosh Sharma (Impression Participant for du Plessis) b Bhuvneshwar 2 (3b), Vipraj Nigam run out 12 (6b, 1×6), Mitchell Starc (not out) 0 (0b), Dushmantha Chameera (not out) 0 (1b); Extras (lb-1, nb-1, w-2): 4; Whole (for eight wkts. in 20 overs): 162.

FALL OF WICKETS

1-33 (Porel, 3.4 overs), 2-44 (Karun, 4.4), 3-72 (du Plessis, 9.5), 4-102 (Axar, 13.4), 5-118 (Rahul, 16.2), 6-120 (Ashutosh, 16.5), 7-158 (Vipraj, 19.2), 8-162 (Stubbs, 19.5).

RCB BOWLING

Bhuvneshwar 4-0-33-3, Dayal 4-0-42-1, Hazlewood 4-0-36-2, Suyash 4-0-22-0, Krunal 4-0-28-1.

ROYAL CHALLENGERS

Jacob Bethell c Karun b Axar 12 (6b, 1×4, 1×6), Virat Kohli c Starc b Chameera 51 (47b, 4×4), Devdutt Padikkal (Impression Participant for Suyash) b Axar 0 (2b), Rajat Patidar run out 6 (6b, 1×4), Krunal Pandya (not out) 73 (47b, 5×4, 4×6), Tim David (not out) 19 (5b, 3×4, 1×6); Extras (nb-2, w-2): 4; Whole (for 4 wkts. in 18.3 overs): 165.

FALL OF WICKETS

1-20 (Bethell, 2.2), 2-20 (Padikkal, 2.4), 3-26 (Patidar, 3.6), 4-145 (Kohli, 17.5).

CAPITALS BOWLING

Axar 4-0-19-2, Starc 3-0-31-0, Mukesh 3.3-0-51-0, Vipraj 1-0-12-0, Kuldeep 4-0-28-0, Chameera 3-0-24-1.

Toss: RCB.

PoM: Krunal.

RCB gained by six wickets with 9 balls to spare.

RCB 114/3 in 15 overs

Kohli (41) and Krunal (53) have been on the crease