'Delhi Capitals making silly mistakes': Axar Patel's blunt admission during toss

NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals skipper Axar Patel won the flip and opted to bat archetypal against table-toppers Punjab Kings successful their IPL 2026 clash astatine the Arun Jaitley Stadium successful Delhi connected Saturday. DC are presently sixth connected the points table, and Axar admitted astatine the flip that the squad has been making avoidable mistakes successful the tournament.Both sides went successful with unchanged XIs - Delhi Capitals from their erstwhile game, and Punjab Kings arsenic well, who beryllium astatine the apical of the array with 5 wins from six matches."We volition bat first. It looks a spot adust and evidently it’s a time game, and you cognize it’s rather blistery arsenic well. So we’re reasoning of putting up a bully full archetypal and past trying to support it. (Do you deliberation it volition get rather dilatory aboriginal on?) Yes, from the looks of it, it seems similar it volition dilatory down a spot later, and the bowlers mightiness get immoderate assistance arsenic well.

So we privation to station a bully full archetypal and springiness the bowlers a accidental to marque usage of immoderate assistance from the wicket.

We privation to absorption connected ourselves," Axar said during the toss.

"Every squad we are playing is playing bully cricket. We person besides been playing bully cricket, but the happening is that successful important moments, I deliberation we are not winning those moments successful the game. We are making silly mistakes, and if we close those, I deliberation we volition beryllium backmost connected track.

If consistency comes in, and if we hole the tiny mistakes we are making successful the tract oregon successful taking decisions astatine important times, past I deliberation we volition beryllium connected the winning broadside astir of the time.

We are playing the aforesaid team," helium said.Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer, who besides named an unchanged XI, said: "It's important to enactment successful the moment, that's however you privation the situation to be. I personally consciousness you conscionable person to support grooming harder and support getting amended each present and then, amended than the erstwhile performance.

And that's what I support telling my teammates arsenic well.""We request to inculcate close habits successful the dressing country and civilization that we've been gathering truthful far. And it has been, interaction wood, going great. We conscionable person to support enjoying the crippled and person amusive on with each other. I would emotion to bowl. And thankfully, I had a tiny treatment with Axar earlier the toss. He said that he's going to bat, truthful I was blessed that we are going to vessel and the flip was inconsequential.

We are going with the aforesaid team," Iyer said.Teams:Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Prabhsimran Singh (w), Priyansh Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra ChahalDelhi Capitals (Playing XI): KL Rahul (w), Pathum Nissanka, Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel (c), Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh KumarImpact Subs:Delhi Capitals: Vipraj Nigam, Karun Nair, Dushmantha Chameera, Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi DarPunjab Kings: Nehal Wadhera, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod