India, April 9 -- Delhi Capitals needed one big hand when Gujarat Titans put up 210/4 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Shubman Gill's 70 and Washington Sundar's 55 had already pushed the game into the kind of zone where one batter had to carry the chase deep. Rahul did exactly that, making 92 off 52, but DC still fell one run short at 209/8.

That is what makes Rahul's night so interesting from a balance-sheet angle. On the surface, this was the innings that finally made his IPL 2026 campaign look alive. In the monetary layer, it was his first proper recovery game. But once the noise of the thriller is stripped away, the numbers still say Delhi Capitals are waiting for a much bigger financial correction from their Rs.14 crore batter.

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