Venugopal Rao, Delhi Capitals’ Director of Cricket, lamented his group’s poor catching and bowling within the first six overs after a demoralising six-wicket defeat to Punjab Kings on the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday. Regardless of posting its highest-ever complete of 264 for 2, courtesy Okay.L. Rahul’s career-best unbeaten effort of 152, DC contrived to go down with seven balls to spare.
Among the many flaws laid naked, the fielding lapses had been significantly galling. Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh and Shreyas Iyer, who kind the fulcrum of PBKS’ power-packed batting line-up, had been all supplied reprieves that they gleefully capitalised on.
“Fielding allow us to down. We dropped nearly six catches right this moment. When you find yourself dropping catches at an important time, particularly of gamers like Prabhsimran, Priyansh and Shreyas, we received’t win these sort of matches,” Venugopal advised the media on Saturday.
One other side the place the host faltered was its bowling within the PowerPlay. The DC assault allowed Kings to waltz to 116 for none in six overs, with Priyansh and Prabhsimran depositing the ball into the stands as nonchalantly as they’d in a range-hitting coaching session. Venugopal highlighted Lungi Ngidi’s enforced absence on account of an damage within the third over of the chase as a decisive issue.
“There have been numerous good bits. For those who look again, (not having) 4 overs of Ngidi and (spilling) six catches made a giant distinction. Everyone knows what Ngidi can do along with his expertise. We missed that. The place we are able to enhance is PowerPlay bowling and catching,” the previous India batter assessed.
Revealed on Apr 26, 2026