NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel received the toss and opted to bat first towards table-toppers Punjab Kings of their IPL 2026 conflict on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Saturday. DC are lately 6th at the issues desk, and Axar admitted on the toss that the group has been making avoidable errors within the match.Either side went in with unchanged XIs – Delhi Capitals from their earlier sport, and Punjab Kings as neatly, who sit down on the best of the desk with 5 wins from six suits.
“We can bat first. It appears to be like just a little dry and clearly it’s an afternoon sport, and also you comprehend it’s rather sizzling as neatly. So we’re considering of striking up a excellent overall first after which looking to protect it. (Do you suppose it’ll get rather sluggish in a while?) Sure, from the appearance of it, it sort of feels like it’ll decelerate just a little later, and the bowlers would possibly get some lend a hand as neatly. So we wish to put up a excellent overall first and provides the bowlers a possibility to use any the help of the wicket. We wish to center of attention on ourselves,” Axar stated all over the toss.“Each and every group we’re enjoying is enjoying excellent cricket. Now we have additionally been enjoying excellent cricket, however the factor is that during the most important moments, I believe we aren’t successful the ones moments within the sport. We’re making foolish errors, and if we proper the ones, I believe we will be able to be again on target. If consistency is available in, and if we repair the small errors we’re making within the box or in taking choices at the most important occasions, then I believe we will be able to be at the successful aspect more often than not. We’re enjoying the similar group,” he stated.Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer, who additionally named an unchanged XI, stated: “You have to keep within the second, that is how you need the surroundings to be. I individually really feel you simply need to stay coaching tougher and stay getting higher once in a while, higher than the former efficiency. And that’s the reason what I stay telling my teammates as neatly.”“We wish to inculcate proper behavior within the dressing room and tradition that we’ve got been construction thus far. And it’s been, contact picket, going nice. We simply need to stay taking part in the sport and feature a laugh at the side of every different. I would like to bowl. And fortunately, I had a small dialogue with Axar prior to the toss. He stated that he is going to bat, so I used to be glad that we’re going to bowl and the toss was once inconsequential. We’re going with the similar group,” Iyer stated.Groups:Punjab Kings (Enjoying XI): Prabhsimran Singh (w), Priyansh Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra ChahalDelhi Capitals (Enjoying XI): KL Rahul (w), Pathum Nissanka, Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel (c), Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh KumarAffect Subs:Delhi Capitals: Vipraj Nigam, Karun Nair, Dushmantha Chameera, Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi DarPunjab Kings: Nehal Wadhera, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod