IPL 2025: Why is Phil Salt not playing in DC vs RCB Match 46?

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will miss Phil Salt's services in the match against the Delhi Capitals (DC) at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, on April 27. This will be an interesting game of cricket as the winner will be the table topper. Moreover, KL Rahul's celebrations in their previous encounter at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, will be in Virat Kohli's mind. So, a dramatic end to the game can be expected. 

Toss Update

RCB skipper Rajat Patidar won the toss and chose to field first. The captain was happy with their first win at home in the previous match and looked forward to improving in the upcoming games. On the other hand, Axar Patel didn't feel bad about losing the toss as they were looking to bat first. Later, he spoke about his bowling performance in the last match. 

Jacob Bethell comes in for Phil Salt; Faf Du Plessis comes back 

Phil Salt misses this game against DC as he is down with a fever. Hence, RCB brought in Jacob Bethell. He might open alongside Virat Kohli in the match in Salt's absence. 

Meanwhile, Faf du Plessis is back for the Delhi-based franchise after recovering from a groin injury. He was in fantastic form before getting injured. Now, DC have a solid opening pair and they'll look forward to destroying RCB's bowling attack in the powerplays. 

What did the captains say?

Axar Patel, Delhi Capitals

That is an advantage too but if we had won the toss, I think we would have batted only and use the wicket in the second innings. In the last game, there was no dew but in the game against Mumbai, there was some dew. They (LSG) had two foreign batters at the top so I wanted to bowl against them. I was bowling with a good rhythm, the plan wasn't to bowl four overs in a row but I kept bowling well so I continued with it. Faf is back and the Impact player we will decide according to the situation.

Rajat Patidar, Royal Challengers Bengaluru

 We will bowl first. The wicket is quite good to bat on and I don't think it's going to change too much and we like to chase. It's our first win at our home and we will try to continue playing good cricket. In every match, we are trying to improve, so we want to keep learning. Bethell has come in place of Salt.

Playing XIs

Delhi Capitals

Faf du Plessis, Abishek Porel, Karun Nair, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar

Impact Subs: Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Jake Fraser McGurk, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay

Royal Challengers Bengaluru 

Virat Kohli, Jacob Bethell, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal

Impact Subs: Devdutt Padikkal, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Swapnil Singh