IPL 2026 PBKS vs DC Live Cricket Score, Punjab Kings vs Delhi Capitals Playing 11 Today Match Updates: Staring at elimination from the Indian Premier League 2026, Delhi Capitals will play for survival against Punjab Kings in Match No. 55 at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala on Monday.
PBKS, who will play their first home game away from Mullanpur this season, have lost steam heading into the business end of IPL 2026. Last year’s finalists started with five wins and were unbeaten in their first six games before losing three on the trot. Rajasthan Royals stopped Shreyas Iyer’s men’s juggernaut, after which Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad have also beaten the Men in Red. As a result, Punjab have slipped to fourth in the points table after dominating the leaderboard for the majority of the season.
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Like Punjab, Delhi also got off to a good start but failed to build on the momentum. Having started the season with two back-to-back wins, Axar Patel’s DC have since lost seven of their nine matches.
DC stand on the brink of elimination with 8 points from 11 matches, where a loss to PBKS in Dharamsala would officially end their run. Punjab, meanwhile, would regain the top spot in the standings ahead of Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad should they win on Monday.
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Axar Patel’s batting crisis is costing Delhi Capitals — and nobody knows where to bat him
Axar Patel has yet to hit a six in ten T20 outings spanning five months, aggregating only 38 runs at a 6.3 average against seam. (CREIMAS FOR IPL)
Neutral pitches curated by the BCCI have stripped Delhi Capitals of any advantage at the Kotla, said head coach Hemang Badani after his team’s sixth defeat on Tuesday night — and few have felt the varying surfaces more acutely than Axar Patel.
The Delhi square has produced extremes this past month. But when the Capitals batted first across the last fortnight, the captain was conspicuous by his absence. The streak of losses has stretched to four successive home matches, with the confusion around Axar’s role running through all of them. Tactical lapses and a batting order in constant flux have made a difficult season harder. (READ MORE)
