IPL 2026 Tips - Delhi Capitals v Punjab Kings

The Delhi Capitals host the Punjab Kings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in a day game, with the only unbeaten side in the competition looking to make it six wins from six.

Head to Head

Punjab Kings

Head to Head

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PBKS are the form side, the more settled combination and carry a batting attack that DC have no clear answer for.

The all-time series is perfectly level at 17-17 across 35 meetings, with DC winning the last completed encounter by six wickets in 2025. The home record at Kotla is also 6-6 in this fixture, so history offers no meaningful advantage either way.

What does separate these sides right now is form and consistency. PBKS have used just 12 players all season, Arya and Prabhsimran have put on 197 runs at a strike rate of 221 as an opening pair, and Shreyas Iyer has three half-centuries and returns to a ground he knows well from his DC captaincy days.

DC lost to SRH by 47 runs in their last game and conceded 242, with Kuldeep and Axar bowling just two overs each. Their powerplay run rate of 8.7 is well below PBKS’s 11.3 and they are yet to chase down 200 this season in three attempts.

Ngidi and Natarajan are their best assets at the death but if PBKS post 200-plus on this surface, DC do not have the batting depth to get there.

Back PBKS to extend the streak.

Best Bet

Shreyas Iyer

30+ Runs

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Iyer has scores of 5, 69 not out, 82 off 36 and 50 in his last four completed innings and is striking at 182 this season. He returns to the ground where he captained DC for years and faces a bowling attack that has struggled for wickets in the middle overs all season.

Value Bet

Priyansh Arya

50+ Runs

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Arya has hit 50+ in two of his last three innings, and his powerplay strike rate of 258 this season, the best among batters to have faced at least 50 balls, hitting a boundary every two balls in the first six overs. On a flat Kotla surface in the afternoon heat, he could pile on a huge score.

Same Game Multi

PBKS H2H / Arya & Prabhsimran 20+ Runs / Arshdeep Singh 2+ Wickets

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