Lowest score in IPL History: In the 39th match of IPL 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore registered a big win over Axar Patel’s Delhi Capitals. In this match, RCB defeated Delhi by a huge margin of 9 wickets. Although Delhi Capitals had a shameful defeat in this match, but still managed to save their respect in the corridors of cricket and IPL. After all why are we saying this? Let us talk about this in detail.

Actually, the shameful record of lowest score in IPL history is in the name of Royal Challengers Bangalore. In the year 2017, Kolkata Knight Riders had all out RCB for just 49 runs. In this match, it seemed that RCB would hand over this record to Delhi Capitals, but the Delhi team was successful in crossing the figure of 49 runs and was saved from this unwanted record.

Bad start for Delhi, 6 wickets fell for 8 runs

Delhi Capitals, who came to bat first after losing the toss, had a very poor start. The team lost its 6 wickets on the score of just 8 runs. In the first three overs itself, the lethal bowling of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood completely shook Delhi’s batting order. Sahil Parakh, Sameer Rizvi and Akshar Patel could not even open their accounts. KL Rahul and Nitish Rana scored only 1-1 runs, while Tristan Stubbs scored 5 runs. Delhi’s score after the powerplay was just 13 runs, which became the lowest powerplay score in IPL history.

The entire team was limited to 75 runs.

Delhi Capitals The entire team was all out for 75 runs. His innings ended on the third ball of the 17th over. Abhishek Porel scored the maximum 30 runs for the team and tried to fight. Apart from him, David Miller added 19 runs and Kyle Jameson added 12 runs. In bowling, Josh Hazlewood performed brilliantly and took 4 wickets for 12 runs, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 3 wickets for 5 runs. Krunal Pandya, Suyyash Sharma and Rasikh Salam also took one wicket each.

Impact player saved the team’s honor

In this match, the Impact Player rule came as a relief for Delhi Capitals. When rcb In 2017, there was all out for 49 runs, then this rule was not applicable. In this match, Delhi fielded Abhishek Porel as an impact player, who played the most important innings for the team. He took charge of the team by scoring 30 runs on 33 balls and played a big role in taking the team beyond the shameful figure of 49 runs. Although he eventually became the victim of Josh Hazlewood, his innings saved Delhi from a huge record.