Delhi Capitals skipper Shreyas Iyer wore a huge smile after leading his team to the IPL playoffs after seven years. He had a smile too when he had won the toss on a slow Kotla pitch, knowing that with a decent total on the board, his team had the wherewithal to get the better of the bottom-placed Royal Challengers Bangalore. The 16-run win took Delhi Capitals to the top of the table (before the result of the KKR-MI match) with 16 points, and with two games in hand, they have a good chance to finish in the top two.

End of RCB's road?

\While DC was rejoicing, it was virtually the end of RCB's chances to make it to the playoffs, a sad end for a team led by India captain Virat Kohli and possessing a fairly decent batting line-up. That famed batting came apart on the slow Kotla pitch after Kohli and AB de Villiers could not produce big knocks. Both had begun promisingly but fell to smart catches on the boundary in pursuit of the big shots. After their departure, it was just a matter of time, and though Marcus Stoinis tried gamely till the end, it proved too big a challenge.