Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing 11: Dc host RCB in Delhi on Sunday. (Sportzpics for IPL)It will a fight for top spot in the Indian Premier League points table when the Royal Challengers Bengaluru travel to the national capital to take on the Delhi Capitals in an IPL 2025 clash at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Sunday. The winner of the game will usurp the top spot in the IPL 2025 points table by leapfrogging table toppers Gujarat Titans — who are provisionally No 1 when Sunday begins having accrued 12 points from eight games — with 14 points.
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The contest is also crucial from the top 2 qualification point of view. Three teams — Gujarat, Delhi and Bengaluru — have the best chance of making it into the top two. However, RCB have played one extra match than DC and GT.
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The match at Kotla will also see the return of their homeboy Virat Kohli, who will be back at his childhood ground after last featuring for Delhi in a Ranji Trophy match earlier this year.
Faf du Plessis is fit to play and will likely return to the Playing XI, and that will mostly be the solitary chance Delhi would want to do. Otherwise, they appear to be a pretty solid side. RCB, too, are likely to play the same XI.
Delhi Capitals: Abishek Porel, Faf du Plessis, Karun Nair, KL Rahul (wk), Axar Patel (c), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Dushmantha Chameera.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.
Delhi Capitals: Abishek Porel, Karun Nair, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Dushmantha Chameera, Mukesh Kumar, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sameer Rizvi, Madhav Tiwari, Donovan Ferreira, Tripurana Vijay, Darshan Nalkande, Faf du Plessis, T Natarajan, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Manvanth Kumar L, Mohit Sharma.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma, Lungi Ngidi, Liam Livingstone, Swapnil Singh, Manoj Bhandage, Rasikh Dar Salam, Nuwan Thushara, Jacob Bethell, Mohit Rathee, Swastik Chikara, Abhinandan Singh.
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