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Sameer Rizvi played an unbeaten 70 runs off 47 balls for Delhi Capitals in their 142-run chase against Lucknow Super Giants at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
IPL 2026 points table, Orange Cap and Purple Cap lists after DC-LSG match. (Image credit: X/@DelhiCapitals)
Delhi Capitals secured a hard-fought 6-wicket victory over Lucknow Super Giants in the fifth league match of IPL 2026 on Wednesday (April 1), beginning their campaign in the current season of the cash-rich league with a win. In the match played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, Delhi Capitals bowled out LSG for just 141 runs in 18.4 overs after opting to field first and then chasing the target of 142 runs in 17.1 overs.
The national capital-based franchise suffered a top-order collapse (reduced to 4 for 26 in 4.3 overs), but Sameer Rizvi, who came in as an impact player, then joined hands with South African batsman Tristan Stubbs (39 runs off 32 balls) and added 119 runs for the fifth wicket to take the game away from Lucknow.
The victory over the Super Giants in their first match of the 2026 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) helped DC move to the No. 3 position in the points table. The team led by Axar Patel has 2 points in a match played so far.
Four more teams (Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings) also have 2 points each to their credit, but due to the net run rate (NRR), Rajasthan Royals and RCB occupy the top two positions, while MI and PBKS occupy the 4th and 5th places respectively.
IPL 2026 points table after LSG vs DC match on April 1
| POSITION | EQUIPMENT | MATCHES | WIN | DEFEATS | NO RESULT | NEEDLES | NRR |
| 1. | Rajasthan Royals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4,171 |
| 2. | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2,907 |
| 3. | Capitals of Delhi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1,397 |
| 4. | Bombay Indians | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.687 |
| 5. | Kings of Punjab | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.509 |
| 6. | Gujarat Titans | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.509 |
| 7. | Riders of the Knights of Calcutta | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.687 |
| 8. | Lucknow Supergiants | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -1,397 |
| 9. | Sunrise Hyderabad | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -2,907 |
| 10. | Chennai Super Kings | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -4,171 |
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Uncapped Indian batsman Sameer Rizvi scored an unbeaten half-century for Delhi Capitals in their 142-run chase, and his 70 runs off 47 balls against Lucknow Super Giants helped him take fifth position in the Orange Cap rankings.
Only Ryan Rickelton of Mumbai Indians, Ishan Kishan of Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rohit Sharma of MI and Cooper Connolly of PBKS have scored more runs than Rizvi so far in the current edition of the IPL.
IPL 2026 Orange Cap Rating after LSG vs DC match on April 1
| POSITION | PLAYER | EQUIPMENT | MATCHES | RUNS |
| 1. | ryan rickelton | Bombay Indians | 1 | 81 |
| 2. | Ishan Kishan | Sunrise Hyderabad | 1 | 80 |
| 3. | Rohit Sharma | Bombay Indians | 1 | 78 |
| 4. | Cooper Connolly | Kings of Punjab | 1 | 72 |
| 5. | Sameer Rizvi | Capitals of Delhi | 1 | 70 |
| 6. | Virat Kohli | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 1 | 69 |
| 7. | Ajinkya Rahane | Riders of the Knights of Calcutta | 1 | 67 |
| 8. | Devdutt Padikkal | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 1 | 61 |
| 9. | Vaibhav Sooryavanshi | Rajasthan Royals | 1 | 52 |
| 10. | Angkrish Raghuvanshi | Riders of the Knights of Calcutta | 1 | 51 |
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Fast bowlers T Natarajan and Lungi Ngidi picked up 3 wickets each for Delhi Capitals in their first match of IPL 2026. Natarajan finished with figures of 3 for 29 in four overs, and Ngidi conceded 27 runs in 3.4 overs to dismiss three LSG batsmen. Natarajan’s super show with the ball helped him take the second position in the list of bowlers with most wickets in IPL 2026, and Ngidi is now fourth in the Purple Cap rankings.
Apart from them, DC’s Kuldeep Yadav and LSG’s Prince Yadav also dismissed two batsmen each on Wednesday at the Ekana Stadium.
IPL 2026 Purple Cap Rating after LSG vs DC match on April 1
| POSITION | PLAYER | EQUIPMENT | MATCHES | WICKETS | BEST NUMBERS | ECONOMY |
| 1. | Jacob Duffy | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 1 | 3 | 3/22 | 5.50 |
| 2. | T Natarajan | Capitals of Delhi | 1 | 3 | 3/29 | 7.25 |
| 3. | Prasidh Krishna | Gujarat Titans | 1 | 3 | 3/29 | 7.25 |
| 4. | Lungi Ngidi | Capitals of Delhi | 1 | 3 | 3/27 | 7.36 |
| 5. | Vijaykumar Vyshak | Kings of Punjab | 1 | 3 | 3/34 | 8.50 |
| 6. | Shardul Thakur | Bombay Indians | 1 | 3 | 3/39 | 9.75 |
| 7. | rosemary shepherd | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 1 | 3 | 3/54 | 13.50 |
| 8. | Jofra Archer | Rajasthan Royals | 1 | 2 | 2/19 | 4.75 |
| 9. | Ravindra Jadeja | Rajasthan Royals | 1 | 2 | 2/18 | 6.00 |
| 10. | Nandré burger | Rajasthan Royals | 1 | 2 | 2/26 | 6.50 |
Delhi Capitals will take on Mumbai Indians in their second match of IPL 2026 on Saturday afternoon at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on April 4, and LSG’s next match is scheduled against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday (April 5) in Hyderabad.
April 1, 2026, 23:09 IST
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