Delhi comes from behind to hand Punjab a fourth consecutive loss in IPL

DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — Punjab Kings slumped to their fourth consecutive defeat as Delhi Capitals ran down a 211-run target in the Indian Premier League on Monday.

Captain Axar Patel, who didn’t bowl in Punjab’s innings of 210-5, top-scored for Delhi with 56. David Miller piled on with a 28-ball 51 and the tailenders finished it off to reach 216-7 and win by three wickets with an over to spare.

Former IPL leader Punjab stayed fourth in the table while Delhi, which has played one more game, was seventh and still in the playoffs race.

“The cricket we are playing and the players we have, the future is strong,” Delhi captain Axar Patel said.

Half-centuries from skipper Shreyas Iyer (59 not out) and Priyansh Arya (56) led Punjab to a challenging total against an all-out Delhi pace attack. Iyer even felt they had 30 more runs than they needed.

Delhi’s two premier overseas fast bowlers Mitchell Starc (2-57) and Lungi Ngidi (0-46) were expensive in the powerplay and Starc, who went for 22 in his first over, also leaked runs in his return spell against Cooper Connolly (38) and Suryansh Shedge (21).

It was the three Indian seamers who pulled back Punjab. Auqib Nabi bowled unchanged for his four overs, and Mukesh Kumar and Madhav Tiwari, in his second Twenty20 took three wickets.

Punjab, like Delhi, used only pace bowlers. Delhi’s chase was in trouble at 74-4 in the ninth over. Arshdeep Singh bowled his four overs on the trot and claimed two wickets that included Delhi's leading run-scorer Lokesh Rahul for 9.

But Patel and Miller revived the chase in a 64-run stand and Patel scored his first fifty of the season after getting dropped early in his innings.

“(My) luck changed a little,” Patel said. “I was trusting my process and the runs came.”

After Patel and Miller were dismissed, impact player Ashutosh Sharma (24 off 10 balls) and Tiwari (18 off 8), one of the five changes Delhi made, took the game away from Punjab in the death overs.

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Delhi Capitals' Madhav Tiwari, second left, celebrates the wicket of Punjab Kings' Priyansh Arya with teammates during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings in Dharamshala, India, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Delhi Capitals' captain Axar Patel plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings in Dharamshala, India, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Punjab Kings' Cooper Connolly plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings in Dharamshala, India, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Punjab Kings' Priyansh Arya plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings in Dharamshala, India, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Punjab Kings' captain Shreyas Iyer plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings in Dharamshala, India, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Passengers and crew members were safely evacuated from a Turkish Airlines jet that landed at Kathmandu airport Monday with smoke coming out of the landing gear, the airline said.

An official at the Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport had said earlier that the plane's right landing gear had caught fire and that emergency crew were able to bring it under control. The airport official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly to reporters.

However, the airline said in statements that there had not been a fire, and that a preliminary assessment indicated that the smoke coming from the landing gear was cased by a malfunction of hydraulic equipment. Passengers were evacuated via slides as a precaution, the airline said.

The airport was shut down on Monday morning but reopened nearly two hours later, after the plane was removed to a safer area at the airport. Flights were operating on schedule later on Monday.

There were 277 passengers and 11 crew members on board the Airbus A330 from Istanbul.

“The evacuation process was completed successfully and no injuries were reported," an airline statement quoted company official Yahya Üstün as saying. "An additional flight has been planned for the return, while technical inspections of the aircraft have been initiated by our teams.”

He said that initial assessments indicated that the smoke was caused by a technical malfunction in a hydraulic pipe.

Nepal experiences relatively frequent plane crashes as its mountainous terrain and variable weather make flying conditions difficult.

In 2015, a Turkish Airlines jet landing in dense fog in Kathmandu skidded off a slippery runway shutting down the airport for several days. No injuries were reported, and the plane was later towed out of the airport and converted into a museum.

A Turkish Airlines aircraft is seen after passengers were safely evacuated when smoke was observed coming from the landing gear due to a hydraulic malfunction, at the international airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajneesh Bhandari)

A Turkish Airlines aircraft is seen after passengers were safely evacuated when smoke was observed coming from the landing gear due to a hydraulic malfunction at the international airport in Kathmandu, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajneesh Bhandari)

A Turkish Airlines aircraft is seen after passengers were safely evacuated and Nepal's main airport shut down, following a fire on the jet while landing in Kathmandu, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajneesh Bhandari)

A Turkish Airlines aircraft is seen after passengers were safely evacuated and Nepal's main airport shut down, following a fire on the jet while landing in Kathmandu, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajneesh Bhandari)