Delhi Capitals beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by six wickets at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on April 18, 2026, chasing 176 with a ball to spare after David Miller struck two crucial sixes in the final over. Tristan Stubbs finished unbeaten on 60 and was named Player of the Match after Delhi turned a difficult chase into a result that ended Bengaluru’s five-match home winning streak.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru had posted 175/8, with Phil Salt top-scoring with 63 and Virat Kohli making 19, but the innings lost shape after Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav triggered a middle-order collapse. Delhi were dragged into trouble almost immediately when Bhuvneshwar Kumar reduced them to 18/3 inside three overs, yet KL Rahul’s 57 off 34 balls and Stubbs’ calm 60 kept the chase alive long enough for Miller to finish on 22*. Stubbs said he kept thinking three sixes would put Delhi straight back in it, and that he told Miller they would get there even if he did not know how. “And that’s him, that’s his bread and butter,” Stubbs said of the man on the other end.
The result mattered because it was not just a rescue act from Delhi; it was the first time Bengaluru had been denied at home after five straight wins, and it came after they had enough runs on the board to believe they controlled the night. Instead, the pressure shifted once the middle overs began to bite, and Delhi’s lower order held its nerve when the chase was still balanced on a single over.
What made the finish sharper was the contrast between the two innings. Bengaluru’s total of 175/8 looked competitive, but it never became decisive once the wickets started to fall in the middle. Delhi, by comparison, had to rebuild from 18/3 and still found a way to close out a six-wicket win. In a game defined by momentum swings, Miller’s two swings of the bat in the last over were the ones that settled it.
