Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Delhi Capitals, 62nd Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

5th spot for RCB as their playoff hopes shine brighter with each passing day. Remember, no other team has won 5 on the bounce this season except RCB. Can they make it six on the bounce and sneak into the playoffs? A lot of things need to go their way for that to materialize. All of that for later, but locking horns tomorrow will be table-toppers KKR against GT in Ahmedabad. A must-win for GT. Meanwhile, a win for KKR will ensure a top-two finish for them. Lots at stake for both those sides as we draw curtains on the penultimate double-header of the season. On behalf of our ever-alert scorer Mukesh Gowda, and the comm duo of Sagar Chawla and Anurag Hegde, this is Raju Peethala bidding goodbye on game 62. Cheers!!

Battle of NRR: RCB will surpass CSK's run-rate if they win by 18 runs or more on May 18 (assuming they score 200 batting first). If the target is 201, they'll have to chase it down with roughly 11 balls remaining.

Cam Green | Player of the Match: Great game for our team. This year there has been so many high scores and there is little bit something there for the bowler and our bowlers were brilliant from the start. We identified that pace on is easy to play, Khaleel bowled a lot of off-cutters which were gripping and tough to target and we tried the same in our bowling. This is such a small ground and there is something in there for the bowlers which is good to see.

Faf du Plessis | RCB skipper: Brilliant, we put some good performances and really pleased. 1st half of the season, things didn't quite come together and from that batting perspective and bowling perspective we have been able to put it together now. Sometimes people talk about match-ups and all, but as a left hander with the ball spinning in, you hope that works out sometimes and he's (Swapnil) done brilliantly for us. Lot of work has gone behind the scenes, and we are getting it right and I feel there is a lot more variety in our bowling now and Yash and Lockie have been exceptional the last few games. We wanna play a style of cricket, to be bold and put some performances together and keep going.

Stats by Roshan Gede

- 140 all-out is the lowest innings score for DC and the lowest against RCB this season.

- The last instance of RCB successfully defending a target in a night game at Chinnaswamy was against PBKS in 2019.

Most consecutive wins for RCB
7 in 2011 (runners-up)
5 in 2009 (runners-up)
5 in 2016 (runners-up)
5* in 2024
4 in 2010 (playoffs)
4 in 2021 (playoffs)

Lockie Ferguson: We’ve all been working really hard throughout the tournament. Even when we were losing, it was all very even, we were still enjoying ourselves, we knew that things would go right soon. The batters did extremely well, it was gripping a bit more than normal. Looking forward to a few days off and then taking on Chennai. Can be challenging bowling here, been great working with Griffith (bowling coach). Makes it easy when we take wickets throughout.

Axar Patel: Dropped catches hurt us. Could've restricted them to 150. When you lose four wickets in powerplay, you're always chasing the game. 160-170 would've been a par score. Pitch was two-paced. Some were skidding, some were holding. When your main players are run out and you lose four in powerplay, you're chasing the game. Anything can happen, but haven't thought that far ahead.

23:07 local, 17:37 GMT: All those dropped catches and misfields certainly came back to haunt DC. Although they did well to pull things back in the back end of RCB's innings, they needed a bit more than luck during the chase after losing 4 wickets inside 4 overs. Despite losing Warner off the opening over, Fraser-McGurk continued to bat on his merry way but a freakish run-out (palmed over the bowler in his followthrough) in the 3rd over put a huge dent which DC failed to recover. Hope and Axar stitched a 56-run stand for the 5th wicket, and, unfortunately for DC, they lost the wickets of Hope and Stubbs in quick succession to make thigs that much more difficult for them. Axar's lone battle only helped in bringing down the defeat margin as RCB romped home to keep their playoff hopes alive. Hang around for the post-match comments...

Yash Dayal to Kuldeep Yadav, out Bowled!! Kuldeep makes room looking to go down the ground and misses, Yash Dayal did well not to bowl it too full and kept the line around middle and off. Timber. Game over. RCB win by 47 runs and move to the 5th spot. Kuldeep Yadav b Yash Dayal 6(10)

Yash Dayal to Kuldeep Yadav, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Yash Dayal [3.0-0-20-2] is back into the attack

Siraj to Ishant, no run, full and straight at 141ks, Ishant pushes the drive straight to cover

Siraj to Ishant, no run, 134ks angles in from a length over middle and leg, Ishant makes room and fails to put bat on ball

Siraj to Ishant, wide, full and drifting down leg at 133ks, Ishant looks for a tickle and misses

Siraj to Kuldeep Yadav, 1 run, yorker length just outside off at 140ks, Kuldeep squeezes it into the off-side and calls Ishant through for a quick single

Siraj to Kuldeep Yadav, no run, full and wide of off at 138ks, Kuldeep goes too hard on the drive and toe-ends it to mid-off

Siraj to Kuldeep Yadav, no run, short of length angling away at 138ks, Kuldeep looks to cut and misses