Royal Challengers Bangalore’s one-sided win against DC has entered the history books as the second-most dominant chases in IPL. Chasing a total of 76 on board, RCB chased the target in 6.4 overs with 81 balls spare, making it the second most successful and comfortable run chase in IPL history. The only instance ahead was KKR vs MI in Wankhede 2008, when KKR scored a 68 and MI won by 8 wickets with 87 balls remaining.
Delhi Capitals had no reply to RCB’s rip apart bowling tonight. Losing the toss, DC came down to bat and within no time Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood created havoc with their fiery spells, resulting in the lowest IPL powerplay score ever, 13/6. Both these bowlers took 7 wickets today. Only for Abhishek Porel’s 30(33) DC could dodge IPL’s lowest total and an embarrassment, putting up a 75. But that was not enough as RCB easily chased down that total without a scratch on their forehead.
Let us have a look at the Top 5 most balls remaining in a successful IPL chase
87 - MI vs KKR, Wankhede, 2008 (target: 68)
KKR fell to a 67-run all-out in the seam-friendly Wankhede conditions. Shaun Pollock was the star bowler with 3/12 figures in the game
81 - RCB vs DC, Delhi, 2026 (target: 76)*
76 - KTK vs RR, Indore, 2021 (target: 98)
73 - KXIP vs DC, Mohali, 2017 (target: 68)
Sandeep Sharma had his career-best spell of 4/20 that restricted Delhi to 67 runs. Later, Guptill scored a 50*, easily giving KXIP an easy victory
72 - SRH vs RCB, Braboune, 2022 (target: 69)
RCB was bamboozled by Marco Jansen’s spell of 3/25 and also T Natarajan's scalping of 3 wickets that made RCB all out at 68 . SRH easily chased that down wth Abhishek Sharma scoring 47 off 28 balls.
