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NEW DELHI: Punjab Kings batter Shashank Singh recovered himself astatine the centre of different fielding lapse, this clip during the IPL 2026 clash betwixt Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings astatine the Arun Jaitley Stadium successful Delhi connected Saturday.Shashank dropped a straightforward drawback of KL Rahul disconnected Arshdeep Singh’s bowling successful the 3rd implicit of the innings.The Punjab fielder, who had besides enactment down aggregate chances successful the erstwhile lucifer against Lucknow Super Giants, grassed a sitter astatine heavy quadrate leg. KL Rahul pulled a abbreviated transportation from Arshdeep consecutive towards the fielder, but the accidental was spilled and the shot raced distant to the boundary.The infinitesimal near Arshdeep Singh visibly disappointed, portion Punjab Kings co-owner Preity Zinta was besides seen reacting successful frustration.The broadcast camera besides chopped to caput manager
Ricky Ponting
successful the dugout, wherever helium appeared visibly upset with his hands connected his caput aft the missed opportunity.Rahul, who was dropped connected 12 by Shashank, made afloat usage of the reprieve and kept the momentum going, racing to a half-century disconnected conscionable 26 balls.
This was besides the 4th lawsuit of KL Rahul scoring 35 oregon much runs disconnected the archetypal 15 balls of an IPL innings, with his erstwhile specified knocks coming doubly successful 2018 and erstwhile successful 2019.
Delhi Capitals skipper Axar Patel won the flip and elected to bat against array toppers Punjab Kings.The hosts, who are astatine fig six successful the table, are unchanged from their erstwhile outing and truthful are Punjab Kings, who are perched atop with 5 wins from six matches.Teams:Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (C), KL Rahul, Pathum Nissanka, Sameer Rizvi, Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, and Mukesh Kumar.Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (C), Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, and Yuzvendra Chahal.
