Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals Betting Preview, Odds & Predictions

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Delhi Capitals have struggled to secure wins in their last seven matches.
Rajasthan Royals have just two wins in their last seven matches.
Explore betting opportunities in handicaps, batters to Score Over/Under Runs, bowlers to Take Over/Under Wickets markets and Match Sixes.

Wickets have dried up for Lungi Ngidi (Getty Images).

This Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals prediction preview looks ahead to the IPL group match played in India. The Capitals are on the verge of missing out on the playoffs. They must win both matches to stand an outside chance, but that would require a lot of other results to go their way as well.

Match Details
Recent Form
Head-to-Head Record
Team News
Key Stats
Match Analysis
Betting Markets to Watch
Latest Odds

The Royals are one point outside the playoff spots but have a game in hand. Their form has been poor but they have quality players and if they can get a run of wins going they could be big challengers for the title.

Match Details

Match	Delhi Capitals vs Rajasthan Royals
Competition	Indian Premier League
Date	17 May 2026
Time	16:00 SAST
Venue	Delhi, India

Recent Form

Team	Last 5 Matches
Delhi Capitals	LWLLW
Rajasthan Royals	WLWLL

Both sides have been pretty patchy in their last handful of matches, but the Royals are devastating when their top-order fires and that’s likely to be the difference in this match.

Head-to-Head Record

Season	Winner	Margin of victory	Competition
2026	Delhi Capitals	7 wickets	IPL
2025	Delhi Capitals	Super Over	IPL
2024	Delhi Capitals	20 runs	IPL
2024	Rajasthan Royals	12 runs	IPL
2023	Rajasthan Royals	57 runs	IPL

The teams have played each other 31 times, with the Capitals one win ahead with 16 wins to 15 thanks to a hat-trick of wins coming into this clash.

Team News

Delhi Capitals: With seven losses in their last 10 matches the Capitals are giving themselves a tough task to make the playoffs. With two matches to play they must win both and hope other results go their way.

Possible XI: KL Rahul, Abishek Porel, Sahil Parakh, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Axar Patel (c), Madhav Tiwari, Kuldeep Yadav, Auqib Nabi Dar, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi.

Rajasthan Royals: They started the season by storming to four wins on the trot but have since lost five of their last seven. They will be looking for top-order consistency to keep themselves in the playoff picture.

Possible XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag (c), Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Shubham Dubey, Jofra Archer, Ravi Bishnoi, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma.

Key Stats

Delhi Capitals’ KL Rahul is 5th in the IPL runs list (477 runs, S/R 178.0).
Delhi Capitals’ Pathum Nissanka has scored 62, 19 & 50 in his last 3 innings.
Delhi Capitals’ Mitchell Starc has taken 3/40 and 2/57 in his 4 matches this season.
Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has scored 103, 43 & 36 in 4 matches.
Rajasthan Royals’ Dhruv Jurel has scored 51, 42 & 24 in his last 4 matches.
Rajasthan Royals’ Brijesh Sharma has taken 2/18, 2/44 & 2/47 in 5 matches.

Match Analysis

The last match at Delhi was against the Knight Riders nine days ago and ended up as a low-scoring affair, with the Capitals restricted to a score of 142/8 off their 20 overs, with just six sixes, three from top-scorer Pathum Nissanka (50 off 29 balls). Their bowling attack was demolished by a sensational century from Finn Allen that included 10 sixes, with his team-mates adding a further three.

The Arun Jaitley Stadium pitch presents batters and bowlers with a fair contest as it offers consistent bounce, turn for the spin bowlers, along with short boundaries for the batting side to exploit.

We can expect the usual high-scoring powerplay at Delhi, but the black-soil surface tends to ease off and slow down from the middle of the innings.

This season the average first-innings score is just under 180, but the toss hasn’t made a huge impact on the result, with a fairly even spread of wins for sides batting first or second.

Betting Markets to Watch

Result

The Rajasthan Royals are a powerful unit and although the Capitals have home ground advantage and come into the match on the back of a win over the Punjab Kings, I’m backing the Royals top-order to fire at full speed to take the win and end the Capitals’ playoff hopes.

Player Performance

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is seventh in the IPL runs list and is my pick to once again be the best Royals batter.

Score Over/Under Runs

KL Rahul is fifth in the IPL runs list and has scored 57, 37, 152*, 75 and 23 in his last eight innings and is backed to score 32 runs or more in the match.

Take Over/Under Wickets

After a strong start to the season Lungi Ngidi has returned figures of 0/41, 1/30, 0/7 and 0/46 in his last four matches and is worth backing to take just one wicket or less.

Latest Odds

Market	Odds
Delhi Capitals Win	2.05
Rajasthan Royals Win	1.68
Match to go to a Super Over	29.00

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Verdict

Delhi Capitals v Rajasthan Royals

The Rajasthan Royals are backed to win, with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi my pick to be their best batter

KL Rahul is backed to score over 31 runs, with Lungi Ngidi backed to take under two wickets.

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