The 19-match record
The Hindustan Times Cricket Teams profile for Purani Dilli-6, page 4697 on the publisher's cricket vertical, lists 19 Non Domestic T20-m matches played by the side, with 7 wins and 12 losses. The page — last refreshed 26 July 2026 — records no tied games and no no-results. The win percentage sits at 36.84%.
Those 19 fixtures are the entire sample the desk can use today. They span a debut window in August 2024, a second window in August 2025, and the small body of fixtures in between. A two-season record is enough to read a team's shape — opener profile, bowling depth, the opponents they handle, the opponents they don't — but it is not deep enough to read trend.
What the record does say plainly: Purani Dilli-6 win more often than they lose against two opponents, split one, and have not beaten three others. The numbers are taken from the Hindustan Times page as printed; the desk has not re-derived them.
Debut and the first season
Purani Dilli-6 entered the Non Domestic T20-m category on 17 August 2024 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Their first fixture was against South Delhi Superstarz. South Delhi Superstarz won by three wickets. The Hindustan Times profile records that result as the team's debut line.
Across August and into the back end of 2024 the team played the bulk of its early-season fixtures. By the time the profile was refreshed in July 2026, those matches were folded into the 7-12 line. A debut at home, against a Delhi rival, decided by a three-wicket margin — that is the kind of opening result that defines how a young squad reads itself. Six of their twelve losses to date have come against the three opponents they have yet to beat.
Readers tracking white-ball domestic cricket can place this debut window alongside the rest of the cricket coverage the desk publishes. The Delhi non-domestic circuit feeds into the same scouting conversation as the senior Delhi T20 trophy and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
Where the runs come from
The batting order on the profile is led by three names. Vansh Bedi sits at the top with 408 runs from 18 matches, an average that sits in the mid-twenties. Lalit Yadav follows with 277 runs from 19 matches, the only batter to have appeared in every fixture on the profile. Arpit Rana rounds out the top three with 262 runs from 10 matches.
Read in order, that list tells a small story. Bedi is the impact batter — fewer matches than Yadav, more runs. Yadav is the accumulator — the same number of innings as everyone else, a steady second-place return. Rana is the shorter-format specialist — ten matches, third on the list, the kind of middle-order cameo that decides T20 cricket. The desk uses the Hindustan Times profile as the source of those three numbers and does not extrapolate.
The profile does not print a team batting average, a powerplay split, or a death-overs economy. Those numbers can be inferred from match data, but the desk holds the inference back. Only what the publisher lists is asserted here.
Top three on the batting list
The Hindustan Times profile ranks Purani Dilli-6 batters by runs. Vansh Bedi leads with 408 from 18 matches, Lalit Yadav follows with 277 from 19, and Arpit Rana sits on 262 from 10. Numbers are taken as printed on the profile; no rounding or projection is applied.
Where the wickets come from
Aayush Singh leads the wicket chart with 24 wickets from 14 matches. Rajneesh Dadar sits second with 19 wickets from 9 matches. Together those two names account for most of the bowling strike-power on the profile, and they do it from different match loads — Aayush has bowled in five more innings than Dadar.
That split matters. Aayush is the workhorse, fronting up match after match. Dadar is the strike option, taking wickets at a faster per-match rate but in fewer games. The profile also records three Player-of-the-Match awards for Aayush in 14 matches, the most on the squad. A bowler who wins POTM three times in a season is taking match-defining spells, not just useful ones.
Head-to-head against the league
The profile breaks down results opponent by opponent. Against NDT and WDL the record reads 100% — every fixture listed has gone Purani Dilli-6's way. Against NDS the record is 67%. Against CDK it is 33%. Against EDR, ODW and SDS the record sits at 0% — the team is yet to register a win over those three opponents.
That shape is the clearest read on the page. Two opponents bring out the best in the squad; three opponents bring out the worst. The middle band — NDS at 67% and CDK at 33% — is where the team's season is decided. Win both and the record tilts; split them and the season stays on the line the 36.84% mark implies.
Opponent initials on the profile match the abbreviations used elsewhere on the Hindustan Times cricket vertical; the desk treats them as the publisher's labels and uses them as printed.
Individual landmarks on file
Two personal scores carry the batting note on the profile. Vansh Bedi's 96 against EDR on 29 August 2024 is the highest individual score. Dev Lakra's 85 against SDS on 27 August 2025 is the next entry. The bowling note names two five-wicket hauls: Udhav Mohan's 5 for 26 against ODW on 5 August 2025, and Aayush Singh's 5 for 27 against NDS on 27 August 2024.
Read together, those four lines are the heart of the squad's match-defining output. Two batting landmarks by different batters, two bowling landmarks by different bowlers, and every one of them is dated. The pattern is uncommon for a young domestic side: the landmarks are spread across roles rather than concentrated in one player.
The profile does not list strike rates, economy rates, or batting averages for those four spells. The desk does not fill those gaps from other sources; the numbers are kept to what the publisher has printed.
Source note
Facts above are taken from the Hindustan Times Cricket Teams profile for Purani Dilli-6, page 4697, as refreshed on 26 July 2026. The desk uses the publisher's abbreviations (NDT, WDL, NDS, CDK, EDR, ODW, SDS) as printed and does not re-translate them. Strike rates, economy rates and batting averages not listed on the profile are not asserted here.
What to watch next
The next useful check is the next fixture window on the Purani Dilli-6 schedule. A match against NDS, CDK or one of the three unbeaten-by-us opponents is the test of whether the 36.84% line moves. A five-wicket return from Aayush or a score in the 80s and 90s from Bedi is the player-level signal worth tracking. An updated profile on the Hindustan Times Cricket Teams page is the source-level signal that the desk will use to refresh this brief.
Read at the team level, three signals matter. First, does the next fixture sit inside the seven-win band or the twelve-loss band? The 100% win rate against NDT and WDL is a small sample, but it tells you the side has matchups it owns. A win over EDR, ODW or SDS — the three opponents they have never beaten — would reset the headline number and re-shape the season. Second, does Lalit Yadav keep his every-match run going? A 19-from-19 presence in the lineup is unusual for any side; if that streak breaks, the batting order shifts and the role-stability the profile relies on shifts with it. Third, does Aayush Singh's POTM total climb? Three awards in fourteen matches is already a strong return. A fourth takes him into the kind of match-winning territory the rest of the chart does not reach.
Until that update lands, the public line stays short: 19 matches, 7 wins, 12 losses, a 36.84% win rate, Bedi on 408 runs, Aayush on 24 wickets, two five-fors and a 96 already on the books. The team has its shape. The next fixture shows whether the shape holds.
What the sample size does and does not allow
19 matches is enough to read a side's batting spine and bowling depth, and it is enough to draw an early head-to-head map. It is not enough to draw trend. A win percentage that sits ten points below fifty across two domestic windows can flip in a single busy month; a percentage that sits above fifty across the same windows can collapse just as fast. The desk treats 36.84% as a snapshot, not a forecast.
The two debut-window months — August 2024 and August 2025 — also matter. The Hindustan Times profile does not break the 19 matches down by month, but the dated individual scores that anchor the batting and bowling notes sit inside those windows: Bedi's 96 on 29 August 2024, Aayush's 5 for 27 on 27 August 2024, Mohan's 5 for 26 on 5 August 2025, Lakra's 85 on 27 August 2025. That tells the desk the bulk of the fixture load has been concentrated late-summer, with whatever sits in between behaving like filler rather than signal.
The dossier does not list match dates outside those four landmarks. The desk will not invent them. Any future monthly read of the profile will need to come from the publisher's own fixture log, not from this brief.
How the roles split on the profile
Look at the three run-scorers and the two leading wicket-takers together and a role pattern emerges. Bedi and Yadav carry the batting. Aayush and Dadar carry the bowling. Arpit Rana, on 262 runs from 10 matches, sits in between — the kind of shorter-format cameo batter that decides T20 cricket without ever fronting a full innings list. The profile does not assign Rana a bowling role and does not list a fifth bowler in the wickets column, but the run-rate gap between Rana's 10-match sample and Yadav's 19-match sample is wide enough to suggest Rana is being used as a pinch-hitter, not a steady accumulator.
The bowling chart tells the same story in reverse. Aayush's 24 wickets from 14 matches works out to an economy that the profile does not print, but a per-match average just under two. Dadar's 19 from 9 sits above two per match, which is high for any domestic T20 side, but on a small sample of fixtures. The fact that Aayush has bowled in five more innings than Dadar and still leads on raw wickets is the clearest read on the bowling pecking order: Aayush is the frontline, Dadar is the strike option the captain keeps up his sleeve.
The POTM count reinforces that split. Aayush's three awards in fourteen matches is roughly one in every four-to-five innings — a sustained match-winning return. The profile does not list a second bowler with multiple POTM awards, so for now the bowling match-winner chart is a single-name chart, with everyone else on the bowling list pulling in supporting roles.
What the dossier does not say
Three things the desk flags as missing from the public profile, so the reader knows what they are not getting from this brief. First, team-level batting average, strike rate, powerplay and death-overs economy. The publisher lists individual landmarks but does not publish team-level splits, so the desk does not infer them. Second, ground-by-ground record. Arun Jaitley Stadium is named as the debut venue and as the home of the SDS fixture; the rest of the grounds are not listed, and the desk will not assume home-and-away. Third, opposition abbreviations beyond the seven printed (NDT, WDL, NDS, CDK, EDR, ODW, SDS). The desk treats the publisher's labels as printed; full opponent names and franchise identities will need to be lifted from a separate fixture log, not invented here.
Those gaps are real, but they do not weaken the headline. The headline is a record: 19 matches, 7 wins, 12 losses, 36.84%. That line holds whether or not the team-level splits are added later. The landmarks, the batting order and the bowling order all sit on the publisher's page, and the brief is built on top of those.
The desk will revisit this brief when the Hindustan Times profile refreshes next. A new win, a new landmark or a new opponent on the head-to-head chart is the trigger. Until then, the brief is the brief: 19 played, 7 won, 12 lost, Vansh Bedi on top of the runs, Aayush Singh on top of the wickets, and three opponents the team has yet to beat.