Live: PBKS Vs DC, Match 64, Mumbai | CRICTALKS | IPL LIVE 2022 | Punjab Kings Vs Delhi Capitals For queries: anatomizedtube@gmail.com PREVIEW: The similarities between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals stretch beyond an identical 12 points in as many games. Neither of them have won two games on the bounce in IPL 2022 pointing to familiar inconsistency. Come Monday, at the fag end of the season, one of the two will set that dubious record straight at the DY Patil Stadium. Both Punjab and Delhi are coming into the contest on the back of resounding wins - PBKS dented Bangalore and their playoffs hopes, while Delhi stalled Rajasthan Royals march into top-two with an eight-wicket statement win. What Punjab's big win over RCB did though was not only boost their NRR, but also offer Delhi a new lease of life by giving them back the control of their fate in the competition. Even though they're outside of top-four currently with two games in hand each including this, theoretically both are in with a chance to make it to the playoffs with just one more 'W'. After a bunch of seasons of struggle, fast-evolving calculations and prayers at the business end of the tournament, this feeling might be alien to Punjab, and frankly a luxury both teams would rather not want to fall back upon. Monday's clash is also the one between two of the most aggressive batting line-ups of this season. Delhi and Punjab are the top-two sides respectively with the highest Powerplay run-rate this season. DC also have the best boundary percentage (20.6) while Punjab are third on that list (19.1). Approximately seven per cent of both the teams' runs have come in sixes. This is largely due to the red-hot form of two ex-SRH openers - David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan - now leading the run-charts for their respective new teams. Punjab showed faith in a misfiring Jonny Bairstow - incidentally another SRH import - and the Englishman has repaid the faith with twin fifties since Mayank Agarwal selflessly relinquished the opener's slot for him. The lack of runs from their captain's bat though hasn't quite pinched Punjab as much, courtesy the firepower they pack in their top-five. Liam Livingstone has proven to be the best 11.5 Cr Punjab spent at the auction table - recording the second-best strike rate of 180.75 in IPL 2022 and hitting the third-highest number of sixes (29), only behind Jos Buttler (37) and Andre Russell (32). Punjab Kings: With 1005 runs in 22 innings - 12 of which were half-century knocks - Warner is the leading run-scorer against Punjab in the IPL. To curb any chances of early fireworks from his bat, Punjab will undoubtedly let Rabada have a go at him, having already dismissed the Australian five times in T20 cricket. Delhi's last five opening partnerships anyway read: 0, 5, 0, 16 and 0 with the team struggling to find an able replacement for typhoid-struck Prithvi Shaw. Delhi Capitals: Likewise, Delhi would also want to see the back of Punjab's top-scorer this season, Dhawan, early. To that effect, they might hand an over or two with the new ball to Kuldeep, who has dismissed the southpaw twice. Dhawan averages only 17 against the left-arm spinner, who is currently Delhi's top wicket-taker this season (18).