Match 48 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will see the Delhi Capitals lock horns with the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday,
May 5. Axar Patel and his side finally ended their losing streak of three consecutive wins, winning their last game against the Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets.
In the game against the Rajasthan Royals, the Capitals won after successfully chasing a total of 226 with five balls to spare. When it comes to DC, the top-order looks in perfect sync with KL Rahul and Nitish Rana scoring runs consistently. To add a cherry on top, Pathum Nissanka, the explosive Sri Lankan batsman who was out with an injury, joined the side and smashed his maiden IPL half-century.
Meanwhile, Chennai Super Kings have had an up-and-down IPL 2026 campaign, registering four wins and five defeats so far. The Men in Yellow come into this game on the back of a convincing eight-wicket victory over their arch-rivals, the Mumbai Indians, where they comfortably chased down a target of 160 in just 18.1 overs.
A major positive for Chennai has been the return to form of Ruturaj Gaikwad, who has notched up back-to-back half-centuries and remained unbeaten in both innings, providing stability at the top.
The two sides had previously met earlier this season at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, where Chennai emerged victorious by 23 runs, powered by a brilliant century from Sanju Samson.
DC vs CSK: Head-to-Head Records
- Matches Played: 32
- Won by DC: 12
- Won by CSK: 20
- No result: 0
DC vs CSK: Pitch Report At Arun Jaitley Stadium
The Arun Jaitley Stadium is expected to provide a fantastic surface on Tuesday. In the four matches played here so far, the average first-innings total has hovered around 178. However, the previous game stood out as an exception, with the Delhi Capitals collapsing to just 75 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who chased it down comfortably in only 6.3 overs with a nine-wicket win. The relatively short boundaries further aid stroke play, often turning even mistimed shots into boundaries. Considering these conditions, a first-innings score in excess of 200 should be the benchmark for the side batting first.
DC vs CSK: Squads
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (C), KL Rahul, Tristan Stubbs, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T. Natarajan, David Miller, Nitish Rana, Abishek Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Ashutosh Sharma, Pathum Nissanka, Sameer Rizvi, Prithvi Shaw, Lungi Ngidi, Kyle Jamieson, Rehan Ahmed, Karun Nair, Dushmantha Chameera, Ajay Mandal, Vipraj Nigam, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Auqib Nabi.
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Rahul Chahar, Jamie Overton, Matt Short, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Choudhary, Shreyas Gopal, Matt Henry, Gurjapneet Singh, Akeal Hosein, MS Dhoni, Sarfaraz Khan, Dewald Brevis, Spencer Johnson, Urvil Patel, Prashant Veer, Zakary Foulkes, Aman Hakim Khan, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Kartik Sharma, Akash Madhwal.
