NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel gained the toss and opted to bat first in opposition to table-toppers Punjab Kings of their IPL 2026 conflict on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Saturday. DC are at present sixth on the factors desk, and Axar admitted on the toss that the workforce has been making avoidable errors within the match.Either side went in with unchanged XIs – Delhi Capitals from their earlier sport, and Punjab Kings as nicely, who sit on the prime of the desk with 5 wins from six matches.“We are going to bat first. It appears a bit dry and clearly it’s a day sport, and you realize it’s fairly scorching as nicely. So we’re pondering of placing up an excellent complete first after which attempting to defend it. (Do you assume it would get fairly sluggish in a while?) Sure, from the appears of it, it looks as if it would decelerate a bit later, and the bowlers may get some assist as nicely. So we need to put up an excellent complete first and provides the bowlers an opportunity to utilize any help from the wicket. We need to deal with ourselves,” Axar stated through the toss.“Each workforce we’re enjoying is enjoying good cricket. We’ve additionally been enjoying good cricket, however the factor is that in essential moments, I believe we’re not successful these moments within the sport. We’re making foolish errors, and if we appropriate these, I believe we shall be again on monitor. If consistency is available in, and if we repair the small errors we’re making within the discipline or in taking selections at essential occasions, then I believe we shall be on the successful facet more often than not. We’re enjoying the identical workforce,” he stated.Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer, who additionally named an unchanged XI, stated: “It is vital to remain within the second, that is the way you need the atmosphere to be. I personally really feel you simply must maintain coaching tougher and maintain getting higher from time to time, higher than the earlier efficiency. And that is what I maintain telling my teammates as nicely.”“We have to inculcate proper habits within the dressing room and tradition that we have been constructing up to now. And it has been, contact wooden, going nice. We simply must maintain having fun with the sport and have enjoyable together with one another. I’d like to bowl. And fortunately, I had a small dialogue with Axar earlier than the toss. He stated that he will bat, so I used to be glad that we’re going to bowl and the toss was inconsequential. We’re going with the identical workforce,” Iyer stated.Groups:Punjab Kings (Enjoying XI): Prabhsimran Singh (w), Priyansh Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (c), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra ChahalDelhi Capitals (Enjoying XI): KL Rahul (w), Pathum Nissanka, Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel (c), Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh KumarImpression Subs:Delhi Capitals: Vipraj Nigam, Karun Nair, Dushmantha Chameera, Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi DarPunjab Kings: Nehal Wadhera, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod