IPL 2025, DC vs KKR Live Score: Rahane continues Gurbaz’s charge in bumper powerplay for KKR

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Star Sports aired an interview that Faf du Plessis with the broadcasters some time back. Here is what he said: “This IPL hasn’t been like the ones (in terms of fitness) I have had before. There have been a couple of niggles, but happy to be back on the park, today is a really big game for us. We haven’t had back-to-back losses this season, so we need to get that ‘W’ back today. You want to have that established opening combination at the top, but for various reasons we have had quite a lot of openers this season. Hopefully we can now start finding consistency with our roles, especially in the next 3-4 games leading in those knockouts. The nice thing is that everyone has performed at different stages, that’s also a blessing in disguise when it comes to our batting unit. At the moment we are not relying on one person. The previous game we played here against RCB, the wicket was very slow and low, especially in that first innings. There was some dew at the backend. That wicket would have been the perfect wicket for KKR, hopefully we get a wicket that’s not as same as the previous one. The guys persuaded me to be on the field, hopefully you will see me the next game at long-off.”

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Nick Knight says the surface for tonight is slightly better than the one vs MI, RCB. That was drier-looking, this is more compact and has sheen. So, the wicket will hold together a bit more. DC wanted to play MI on a slower surface, but here against KKR they have been specific and play on a better surface that’s not going to bring in Narine or Chakravarthy into the game as much. He expects a 180-plays-180 game. It’s not a belter but Knight expects the score to be higher than 162.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Andre Russell hasn’t been at his best this season and he was the first to hit the nets for KKR before today, facing a variety of throwdowns. He has an incredible record against Mitch Starc in the IPL. Russell hasn’t been dismissed yet by the left-arm pacer in all T20s and has scored 55 runs off 23 balls at a strike rate of 239.13.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: As stated earlier, DC started the season off by winning four games on the trot. But things haven’t gone their way ever since they actually started playing in Delhi. In their three matches at the Arun Jaitley Stadium so far, they have lost two and their only win came via a Super Over.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Like DC, KKR have not got much of a leg up from their opening combinations. They have tried three players in those positions and average 19.87. This makes them one of just two teams who have a lower opening average than DC, the other being CSK (19.77)

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kuldeep Yadav operates mostly in the middle overs and if Sunil Narine has survived till then, it probably means that he has either hardly got strike in the powerplay or done a lot of damage in it. Kuldeep has been able to stop him dead in his tracks though. He has bowled just three deliveries to Narine in two innings and dismissed him off two of those.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Updates 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine is the second-most succesfull bowler against DC in terms of number of wickets taken. He has struck 24 times against them. Well, in a way he is the fourth-most succesfull because at the top are three bowlers with 27 wickets: Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah and Piyush Chawla.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane has scored 205 runs in four innings, with an average of 51.25 and a strike rate of 158.91 at Eden Gardens in this edition. However, in away matches, he has only 66 runs in four innings, averaging 22 with a strike rate of 117.85.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: DC mentor Kevin Pietersen said that they had gone for a slow and low pitch against RCB to battle the latter’s strengths. Now that backfired quite spectacularly on them and KP said that it could be a better surface today.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: A groin injury had kept Du Plessis out of much of the season after getting off to a sensational start in the first couple of games of the season. His return came against RCB and Du Plessis struggled in that match. A return to form for him would go a long way in restoring DC’s fortune.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Another key component of DC’s strong early run was the form of Kuldeep Yadav and Mitchell Starc. In DC’s first four games, Kuldeep took eight wickets and conceded less than a run a ball. In the next five matches, his number of wickets have halved, his economy rate has gone up to 7.35 and his strike rate has jumped from 12 to 30.

Starc took nine wickets from his first four outings, but he has only picked up two wickets from the next five games.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: At the start of this season, it looked like DC might finally be the side that unlocks KL Rahul’s full spectrum of potential as a T20 batter. It might still be the case, with a number of games still left to play this season but things have taken a rather dismaying turn for Rahul. He scored 185 runs in his first three games (he missed DC’s season opener), averaging 92.50 and striking at 169.72. However, since their first game in Delhi, he has only managed 179 runs in five innings, with his strike rate also dropping to 127.85.

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: If you can’t recall exactly what DC’s opening combination is, don’t worry. Chances are that the team management themselves can’t either. As many as five players have been used as openers by DC this season, the most for any team. Their opening partnership average of 24.22 is the third lowest among all teams, just above CSK and KKR

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Rovman Powell, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anrich Nortje, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia, Quinton de Kock, Spencer Johnson, Mayank Markande, Moeen Ali, Ramandeep Singh

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Abishek Porel, Faf du Plessis, Karun Nair, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Sameer Rizvi, Donovan Ferreira, Darshan Nalkande, T Natarajan, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Manvanth Kumar L

DC vs KKR IPL Live Score 2025, Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders: DC flew off to a rolicking start and have run out of steam. KKR have struggled to put together a consistently good run. DC are right in the thick of the race for survival in the top four, KKR are one of the stragglers. Today’s result could have far reaching implications for both sides and those around them as well. Stay tuned for more updates!