Rajasthan Royals’ wait for their first win at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in IPL 2026 continued as the team lost to Delhi Capitals by seven wickets in Jaipur on Friday.
Riyan Parag stepped up and was the team’s top-scorer with 90 off 50 balls, helping the Royals post 226/5. However, a record-breaking chase helped the Capitals win the match.
The result kept RR fourth on the IPL 2026 points table with six wins from 10 matches.
Chasing 226 to win, DC got off to a flying start with Pathum Nissanka racing to a fifty alongside KL Rahul as the openers guided their team to 70/0 at the end of the powerplay before crossing the 100-run mark in the ninth over.
However, Ravindra Jadeja struck in the very next over, trapping Pathum Nissanka LBW and giving the Royals a much-needed breakthrough.
Nitish Rana chipped in with a brisk cameo, scoring 33 off 17 balls and adding 61 runs for the second wicket with KL Rahul. However, Tushar Deshpande struck to remove Rana, offering RR a glimmer of hope.
Jofra Archer removed KL Rahul in the next over to put the spanner in the works, leaving DC with two new batters at the crease to chase down 49 off 28 balls.
The English pacer almost engineered a thrilling finish as he conceded just five off his first five balls in the penultimate over but Stubbs managed a boundary off the final ball to leave DC with five to get in the final six balls.
Ashutosh Sharma helped the Delhi Capitals over the line and register their highest-ever successful run chase in IPL history.
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Earlier, after winning the toss and opting to bat, the Royals got off the mark with a six from Yashasvi Jaiswal but were rocked by early blows, losing both Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi inside the first two overs.
Jaiswal fell to Mitchell Starc while Vaibhav, who had opened his account with a boundary, was undone by a Kyle Jamieson yorker that crashed into his stumps, leaving RR reeling at 12/2 after two overs.
Dhruv Jurel and Riyan Parag then set about rebuilding the innings with the RR captain taking charge and assuming the role of aggressor in a crucial 102-run partnership.
After a watchful start, Parag cut loose in the final over of the powerplay, taking Kyle Jamieson apart in a 20-run over that saw him pepper the boundary with two sixes and a four.
Parag kept up the tempo after the powerplay, peppering the boundary with more fours and sixes as he brought up a fluent fifty in the 11th over.
Dhruv Jurel provided solid support with a few boundaries of his own before falling in the very next over with the Royals at 114/3.
Ravindra Jadeja then joined Parag at the crease and the pair put on a 53-run stand, with the Royals skipper continuing to find the boundary at will before Mitchell Starc returned in the 17th over to strike twice in the space of three balls and remove both batters.
Donovan Ferreira went on to provide a late flourish, hammering an unbeaten 47 off just 14 balls, including three sixes in the final over to propel the Royals past the 220-mark.
Starc marked his return to the DC line-up after an injury layoff with match-best figures of 3/40.
Rajasthan Royals will face Gujarat Titans in their next match at the same venue on Saturday.
Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals, IPL 2026, brief scores: RR 225/6 in 20 overs (Riyan Parag 90; Mitchell Starc 3/40) lost to DC 226/3 in 19.1 overs (KL Rahul 75; Ravindra Jadeja 1/33) by seven wickets.
