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#RCB #Pitch #perfect #Hazlewood #Bhuvneshwar #show #restore #IPLs #batball #balance">DC vs RCB: Pitch perfect Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar show how to restore IPL’s bat-ball balance Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s new-ball pair, Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, offered a reminder on Monday that high-class bowling, with a hint of assistance from the surface, can restore the bat-ball balance in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL).
The IPL has become a batter’s paradise, with flat pitches and short boundaries contributing to sky-high scores and teams routinely chasing down 200-plus totals.
The Impact Player rule, which allows teams to replace a bowler with a specialist batter during a match, has also contributed to what critics say is a lack of balance between bat and ball this season.
On Saturday, Delhi Capitals racked up 264 for two, briefly the season’s highest total, and yet watched helplessly as Punjab Kings pulled off a record chase with seven balls to spare.
Two days later, however, on a different, livelier surface at the same Arun Jaitley Stadium, Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar claimed seven wickets between them and bundled out Delhi for 75.
Delhi lost six wickets inside four overs, a stark contrast to the batting carnage often seen during PowerPlays.
Both Bengaluru seamers bowled the conventional Test match length and got the ball to swing around.
“Even I’m surprised the way the wicket played,” Bengaluru captain Rajat Patidar said.
“The way they hit those areas and got that bit of swing, that was tremendous to see. I think the swing was normal, and the good thing was we got early wickets and that’s why it kept us in the driving seat.”
Delhi captain Axar Patel said they struggled against two world-class bowlers.
“They swing the ball and have done it at every ground,” he added. “If our openers or one-down batters had batted one or two more overs, it could have been a different score or a different match. Credit to them for the way they bowled.”
Published on Apr 28, 2026
Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s new-ball pair, Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, offered a reminder on Monday…
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#RCB #Delhi #Capitals #records #lowest #PowerPlay #total #IPL #history">DC vs RCB: Delhi Capitals records lowest PowerPlay total in IPL history
Delhi Capitals registered the lowest ever score at the end of the Powerplay during its IPL 2026 contest against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in New Delhi on Monday.
DC was restricted to 13 for six at the end of the mandatory six-over phase with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood picking three wickets each.
RELATED | Follow the live score and updates from the DC vs RCB match
Here is the list of the lowest scores recorded at the end of the PowerPlay:
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13 – DC vs RCB (New Delhi, 2026)
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14 – RR vs RCB (Cape Town, 2009)
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14 – SRH vs RR (Pune, 2022)
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15 – CSK vs KKR (Kolkata, 2011)
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16 – CSK vs DC (Raipur, 2015)
Published on Apr 27, 2026
Delhi Capitals registered the lowest ever score at the end of the Powerplay during its IPL 2026 contest against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in New Delhi on Monday.
DC was restricted to 13 for six at the end of the mandatory six-over phase with Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood picking three wickets each.
RELATED | Follow the live score and updates from the DC vs RCB match
Here is the list of the lowest scores recorded at the end of the PowerPlay:
- 13 – DC vs RCB (New Delhi, 2026)
- 14 – RR vs RCB (Cape Town, 2009)
- 14 – SRH vs RR (Pune, 2022)
- 15 – CSK vs KKR (Kolkata, 2011)
- 16 – CSK vs DC (Raipur, 2015)
Published on Apr 27, 2026
Delhi Capitals registered the lowest ever score at the end of the Powerplay during its…
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#RCB #IPL #Hazlewood #Bhuvneshwar #Royal #Challengers #Bengaluru #crush #Delhi #Capitals">DC vs RCB, IPL 2026: Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar help Royal Challengers Bengaluru crush Delhi Capitals
The venue was Delhi. The format was T20. But at the start of Monday’s fixture at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in the IPL, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood were so irresistible with the new ball that the proceedings resembled a Test match unfolding on a green deck in Dunedin.
If Bhuvneshwar teased Delhi Capitals’ batters with swing from a good length, Hazlewood tormented the opposition with the short delivery. The deadly combination broke the back of the host inside the PowerPlay, and made victory for Royal Challengers Bengaluru a matter of formality.
Both pacers scalped three wickets each in their opening spells as Capitals were incredulously reduced to eight for six in 3.5 overs, with the scores of the top six reading 0, 1, 1, 0, 5, 0. The record of the lowest total in IPL history — 49 by RCB against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2017 — was in danger for a while, but Abishek Porel and David Miller put together 35 for the seventh wicket to avert that ignominy.
Eventually, Hazlewood finished with figures of 3.3-0-12-4 as DC folded up for 75. The defending champion took just 6.3 overs to clinch a nine-wicket win, leaving Axar Patel and Co. with a lot of soul-searching to do in the coming days.
RELATED | DC vs RCB IPL match highlights
Heightening the sense of disbelief about the evening was the fact that 529 runs had been scored for the loss of just six wickets across two innings on an adjacent pitch just 48 hours ago.
Bhuvneshwar sparked the collapse. With debutant Sahil Parakh on strike in the opening over, the 36-year-old conjured up an inswinging yorker to uproot middle stump. He would also account for Tristan Stubbs and Axar in the third over.
From the other end, Hazlewood was just as spellbinding. Off his first two balls, he dismissed K.L. Rahul and Sameer Rizvi. Rahul was hurried by a bouncer, miscuing a pull to wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma. Rizvi was enticed into a loose drive to a ball wide of off-stump.
The others crumbled predictably like a pack of cards, with Hazlewood fittingly ending the Capitals’ misery by cleaning up Porel with a yorker.
Published on Apr 27, 2026
The venue was Delhi. The format was T20. But at the start of Monday’s fixture at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in the IPL, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood were so irresistible with the new ball that the proceedings resembled a Test match unfolding on a green deck in Dunedin.
If Bhuvneshwar teased Delhi Capitals’ batters with swing from a good length, Hazlewood tormented the opposition with the short delivery. The deadly combination broke the back of the host inside the PowerPlay, and made victory for Royal Challengers Bengaluru a matter of formality.
Both pacers scalped three wickets each in their opening spells as Capitals were incredulously reduced to eight for six in 3.5 overs, with the scores of the top six reading 0, 1, 1, 0, 5, 0. The record of the lowest total in IPL history — 49 by RCB against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2017 — was in danger for a while, but Abishek Porel and David Miller put together 35 for the seventh wicket to avert that ignominy.
Eventually, Hazlewood finished with figures of 3.3-0-12-4 as DC folded up for 75. The defending champion took just 6.3 overs to clinch a nine-wicket win, leaving Axar Patel and Co. with a lot of soul-searching to do in the coming days.
RELATED | DC vs RCB IPL match highlights
Heightening the sense of disbelief about the evening was the fact that 529 runs had been scored for the loss of just six wickets across two innings on an adjacent pitch just 48 hours ago.
Bhuvneshwar sparked the collapse. With debutant Sahil Parakh on strike in the opening over, the 36-year-old conjured up an inswinging yorker to uproot middle stump. He would also account for Tristan Stubbs and Axar in the third over.
From the other end, Hazlewood was just as spellbinding. Off his first two balls, he dismissed K.L. Rahul and Sameer Rizvi. Rahul was hurried by a bouncer, miscuing a pull to wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma. Rizvi was enticed into a loose drive to a ball wide of off-stump.
The others crumbled predictably like a pack of cards, with Hazlewood fittingly ending the Capitals’ misery by cleaning up Porel with a yorker.
Published on Apr 27, 2026
The venue was Delhi. The format was T20. But at the start of Monday’s fixture…
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