India, April 11 -- KL Rahul justified Delhi Capitals' decision to make him their most expensive player in the mega auction last year, as he played a match-winning knock on Thursday. To make things better, it came on his home ground where he played during his formative years, and DC defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru by six wickets at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Although Axar Patel replaced Rishabh Pant, who joined Rahul's former team Lucknow Super Giants, the Karnataka cricketer is turning out to be DC's most important player in IPL 2025.

Against RCB, DC were chasing 164 runs and Rahul arrived at No. 4 as opener Jake Fraser-McGurk lost his wicket in the first delivery of the third over. DC were at 30/3, and it looked like RCB had alrea...