{"id":5063,"date":"2026-04-18T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/ipl-2026-will-virat-kohli-play-as-impact-player-again-today-vs-delhi-capitals-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:10:50","slug":"ipl-2026-will-virat-kohli-play-as-impact-player-again-today-vs-delhi-capitals-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/ipl-2026-will-virat-kohli-play-as-impact-player-again-today-vs-delhi-capitals-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Will Virat Kohli play as Impact Player again today vs Delhi Capitals? | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130346979,imgsize-43922,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/virat-kohli2-1804-ipl.jpg\" alt=\"IPL 2026: Will Virat Kohli play as Impact Player again today vs Delhi Capitals?\" title=\"Virat Kohli (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Virat Kohli (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL)\">Virat Kohli (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru are set to take on Delhi Capitals in their IPL 2026 encounter at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday. In their last outing against Lucknow Super Giants, star batter <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/virat-kohli\/3993\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Virat Kohli<\/a> was deployed as an Impact Player.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Kohli had sustained an ankle injury during the win over Mumbai Indians and did not take the field in the second innings, but still contributed 49 runs against LSG.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>That raises the key question &#8211; will Kohli once again feature as an Impact Player against Delhi Capitals?<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>RCB have been in impressive form this season, suffering just one defeat, which came against Rajasthan Royals. Apart from that, they have recorded dominant wins over Sunrisers Hyderabad, Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants, placing them second on the points table.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>A victory in this game could see them climb to the top. RCB also have a favourable head-to-head record, having won 20 of the 33 matches played against Delhi Capitals, who have 12 wins, with one match ending without a result.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>As far as team combination is concerned, Kohli is expected to be fully fit and likely to return as a regular player.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/> However, if the team opts to manage his workload, he could once again be utilised as an Impact Player.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Following the win over LSG, Kohli admitted he is still regaining full fitness after a knee issue and a brief illness, though he was satisfied with his batting effort.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/> <\/p>\n<div class=\"wLCOS vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"ap_Bf\">\n<div class=\"ZM4zO\">\n<p><i class=\"bo2C4\"\/> <span>Watch<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Bombay Sport Exchange: Munaf Patel on Gautam Gambhir, Virat vs Bumrah &amp; Indian bowling.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>&#8220;Much better than the last game. I&#8217;m still not 100%. My knee was a bit sore in the last game. Even health-wise, I&#8217;ve been under the weather for four or five days now. So, just getting back up to my best. I started well today, so I was happy with my intensity. Again, would have liked to carry on and finish the game off. <!-- -->Sometimes you have to take the conditions into account as well. The pitch slowed down considerably, and I just wanted to keep going in the same manner.<!-- --> But yeah, in the end, should have probably finished that one off as well,&#8221; Kohli had said after the match against LSG.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Squads:<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(wK), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Duffy, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam Dar, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Mangesh Yadav, Josh Hazlewood, Jordan Cox, Nuwan Thushara, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, Abhinandan Singh, Kanishk Chouhan, Satvik Deswal.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>Delhi Capitals: KL Rahul(wk), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel(c), Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Vipraj Nigam, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi Dar, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, Mitchell Starc, Kyle Jamieson, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Prithvi Shaw, Tripurana Vijay, Abishek Porel, Sahil Parakh, Madhav Tiwari<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/ipl-2026-will-virat-kohli-play-as-impact-player-today-vs-delhi-capitals\/articleshow\/130346982.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) NEW DELHI: Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru are set to take on Delhi Capitals in their IPL 2026 encounter at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday. In their last outing against Lucknow Super Giants, star batter Virat Kohli was deployed as an Impact Player.Kohli had sustained an ankle injury during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}