RCBvs DC 62nd Match: Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Delhi Capitals by 47 runs in the 62nd match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 played at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday. After this victory, Bengaluru still kept its playoff hopes alive. After the defeat, the path to the playoffs is now very far for Delhi. Bengaluru, after losing the toss and batting first, scored 187 runs for 9 wickets and then bowled out Delhi Capitals for 140 runs in 19.1 overs. This is Bengaluru's fifth consecutive win.

This is Royal Challengers Bangalore's sixth win in 13 matches and now it has 12 points and has now reached fifth place. Bengaluru is still in the race for the playoffs. At the same time, Delhi has faced seventh defeat in 13 matches. Now the team will have to win the match against Lucknow Super Giants on 14th May at any cost to remain in the playoffs. Delhi currently has 12 points in its account and is at sixth position. RCB's net run rate is plus 0.387 while Delhi's is minus 0.482.

Delhi, which came to chase the target of 188 runs, had a bad start and lost four of its top order wickets within 30 runs. From here the team was out halfway in the match. These four wickets included the wickets of David Warner (1), Jack Fraser-McGurk (21), Abhishek Porel (2) and Kumar Kushagra (2). But after this, captain Axar Patel (57) tried to control the team by making a partnership of 56 runs with Shai Hope (29) for the fifth wicket.

But after the dismissal of Shai Hope, Patel kept Delhi's hopes alive by adding 37 runs for the sixth wicket with Rasikh Salam (10). However, after Akshar's dismissal, all the hopes of Delhi were lost and the team could score only 140 runs in 19.4 overs.

For Bengaluru, Yash Dayal took three wickets and Lockie Ferguson took two, while Swapnil Singh, Mohammad Siraj and Cameron Green took one wicket each.

Earlier, Bengaluru, which came to bat first after losing the toss, had a bad start and lost the wickets of both its openers at the score of 36 runs. Captain Faf du Plessis (6) and Virat Kohli (27) returned to the pavilion. Ishant Sharma made Kohli his victim for the first time. But after this, Rajat Patidar (52) and Will Jacques (41) strengthened the team by making a partnership of 88 runs for the third wicket.