The Delhi Capitals chose to bowl first after winning the toss. A fast 42-run opening stand was put up by Faf du Plessis and Kohli. Marsh provided DC with two significant wickets. Maxwell scored 24 runs in 14 balls while hitting three sixes. Siraj cheaply fired Dhull, bringing DC down to 2-3. The 37-ball half-century by Manish Pandey proved ineffective. In his first IPL game for RCB, Vijaykumar Vyshak concluded with statistics of 3/20.