Delhi Capitals will square off against the defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, on Monday. It would be a homecoming for Delhi boy, Virat Kohli, and the Delhi crowd will back their hero to give them a night to remember, even though he would be playing for the opposition.

RCB have won five out of their seven matches, whereas DC have managed three wins in as many games in the ongoing IPL 2026.

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Virat Kohli needs 11 runs to complete 9000 runs to become the first batter in IPL history to reach the milestone.

Rajat Patidar, who will play his 50th IPL match, needs nine sixes to complete 100 maximums in the IPL.

Venkatesh Iyer needs three runs to complete 1500 IPL runs.

DC captain Axar Patel needs 53 runs to complete 2000 runs in the IPL.

KL Rahul needs 12 fours to complete 500 boundaries in the IPL.

David Miller needs six sixes to complete 150 maximums in the IPL.

Karun Nair needs one six to complete 50 maximums in the tournament.

Nitish Rana needs one six to complete 150 maximums in the IPL. 

Tristan Stubbs needs 99 runs to complete 1000 runs in the IPL.

Delhi Capitals Squad: KL Rahul(w), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel(c), Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi Dar, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, Mitchell Starc, Kyle Jamieson, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Prithvi Shaw, Tripurana Vijay, Abishek Porel, Sahil Parakh, Madhav Tiwari

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam Dar, Venkatesh Iyer, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Jacob Duffy, Swapnil Singh, Nuwan Thushara, Jacob Bethell, Vihaan Malhotra, Abhinandan Singh, Kanishk Chouhan, Satvik Deswal