Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Capitals, 20th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: Indian Premier League 2019 Venue: M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Date & Time: Apr 07, 04:00 PM LOCAL

Shreyas Iyer hits his first fifty of the season © AFP

Tweet in your views, opinions and frustrations to @PrakashG_CB

All over - DC win by 4 wickets

Successive defeat #6 for Royal Challengers Bangalore - becoming just the second team since DD of 2013 to do so. They tried to trigger a late escape a la KXIP but just didn't have enough runs to push a tentative DC on the brink. Chris Morris and Rishabh Pant were irresponsible with their shot-selection but Shreyas Iyer had done enough with his half-century after Rabada's four-fer cramped the hosts towards the end.

Chris Morris goes!

Another collapse on the cards? Surely, not? DC only need five off the last 12 balls here, but stranger things have happened - particularly with Delhi Capitals!

Shreyas Iyer falls...

...but RCB are within touching distance of becoming just the second team in IPL history to lose their first six fixtures of a season. DC need just five more to win.

Shreyas Iyer's first fifty of the season

And he gets there of 38 balls. His shots have not been convincing all the time but he's done the important job of hanging around, considering DC's vulnerability to a sudden collapse.

WICKET - Ingram trapped leg before

Can RCB dream again? Colin Ingram tried to play an awkward scoop shot and ended up getting struck on the pad. Moeen Ali was convinced it was in line, and stood vindicated as the umpire agreed with him. The South African considered reviewing it but eventually decided otherwise and walked off.

Chahal leaks runs too

Another costly over for RCB. Ingram nailed a sweep shot on the first ball and Iyer spotted the short ball early and played a convincing cut shot off the last ball in what turned out to be a 12-run over.

Ingram goes after Negi

The left-arm spinner teased the South African with deliveries full and outside the off-stump, before Ingram got the better of that line and length. Crucial over in terms of where RCB are as DC reduce the equation from 70 off last 60 to 56 off the last 54.

Head to head: RCB 14 - 6 DC (One NR) 2008-10: RCB 1 - 5 DC 2011-18: RCB 13 - 1 DC (One NR)

86 9

Prelude - RCB eye first points ... still!

Five games, five defeats, zero points.

"We're still optimistic about our chances and we've to believe that we can turn things around" said Virat Kohli, after castigating his bowling effort that allowed Andre Russell to muscle his way through to a 13-ball 48 that pinged RCB to yet another jaw-dropping defeat. Belief is all they can afford going into a fixture right after a performance like that.

The batting has started to come together for RCB - and when I say batting I mean Virat Kohli is middling the pants out of every ball. But it is the bowling, as well as the fielding that's dragging RCB down massively. Kohli's side has dropped 13 catches in the five defeats, most for this season.

Delhi Capitals on the other hand have been a bit up and down this year. Their Super Over win had 'character' written all over it but they've faltered since and lost two on the bounce. What's worse, the two defeats have come against teams - CSK and SRH - who have read their home conditions better than them. There's been murmurs of the team management not being happy about the slow and sticky pitch at the Feroz Shah Kotla, but they can put that grief behind for now. For now, they will play against the side with the worst form on a pitch which suits their top-heavy line-up.