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 standings in the lucrative Twenty20 cricket league. 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,” 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)

LONDON (AP) — The European Union accused TikTok of breaching the bloc's digital rules because its algorithm recommends a nonstop stream of personalized videos to users including those that it says could hurt mental health and body image.

The short-video sharing platform must change the design of its “For You” feed so that users have more control over opting out of seeing certain content, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm said Friday.

The platform failed to assess how its recommendation systems could lead people into “rabbit holes” that threaten their well-being, regulators said, by feeding them similar video clips based on what they've previously viewed or liked even if they are "triggering" such as clips about weight loss and mental health struggles.

TikTok said the European Commission's findings are “fundamentally inaccurate and distort our platform’s architecture and our commitment to user safety.”

“We have a strong record of protecting our community while giving users direct and intuitive control over their content experience,” the company said in a statement.

The company will have a chance to respond before the European Commission issues its final decision, which could include a fine of up to 6% of TikTok's total annual revenue.

“Every time a user scrolls or likes a video on TikTok, the algorithm serves more of the same, leading users down rabbit holes they cannot easily escape from,” European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees tech sovereignty, said in a statement.

"Today’s preliminary findings show again that TikTok needs to step up its efforts to protect users’ well-being, including those of minors.”

TikTok has added some measures, such as a “not interested” button to reduce the “rabbit hole effect,” but the commission said they're ineffective in reducing how often harmful content is recommended.

European regulators said they want TikTok to make changes to its “For You” feed, including giving more weight to ‘explicit preferences’ of people using the platform, stopping reliance on viewing time as a metric for recommending content, and making user controls more accessible.

It's the latest in a series of enforcement actions targeting TikTok by EU regulators using the bloc's Digital Services Act, a wide-ranging rule book that requires tech companies to adhere to a framework under threat of hefty financial penalties.

The commission opened its investigation into whether TikTok violated the DSA more than two years ago. This year, it has already issued two other sets of preliminary findings, accusing the platform of breaching the rules with “ addictive design ” features that lead to compulsive use by children and charging it with failing to adequately protect children's privacy rights.

FILE - The TikTok Inc. building is seen in Culver City, Calif., Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)

European Union flags flap in the wind outside EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)