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[caption id="attachment_44702" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Delhi Daredevils to face RCB in their last encounter of IPL season 10 on Sunday. Image Source: twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: Zaheer Khan led Delhi Daredevils will host Royal Challengers Bangalore in their last match of Indian Premier League season 10 on Sunday, where both teams will be looking forward to end their miserable season with a win. Both the teams have no chance to qualify for the play-offs after their poor show in this year’s IPL. Delhi Daredevils have lost their chance to qualify for the play-offs due to their inconsistency throughout the season, on the other hand Virat Kohli’s RCB have just won two games from their thirteen matches so far in the cash-rich T-20 tournament. Daredevils though have beaten Rising Pune Supergiants by seven runs yesterday, at the Feroz Shah Kotla, but Royal Challengers Bangalore failed to beat KKR in their last encounter. RCB are holding the last spot of the points table with just two victories and 10 defeats after playing 13 matches. Daredevils though are placed in a better position at sixth with six victories and seven losses in the season. Star-studded RCB's captain Virat Kohli has "embraced" what has been a disastrous season, saying his team would learn from the mistakes and move on. Kohli, who smashed a record-shattering 973 runs last year including four centuries, managed, barely 250 runs this season. It was a remarkable dip by his own standards. He missed the first three games to recover from a shoulder injury and the tide did not turn for good even after his return. Big-hitting opener Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers were major disappointments as was Shane Watson, who conceded it was his worst IPL season ever. Life has come full circle for the Australian all-rounder who was an integral part of Rajasthan Royals' triumphant campaign in the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2008. As has often been the case, Delhi Daredevils' fortunes fluctuated through the tournament, yet again missing out on a play-off berth. Youngsters such as Rishabh Pant he had joined the team hours after his father breathed his last Sanju Samson and Shreyas Iyer flourished in patches, giving the team's success-starved fans something to cheer about, albeit occasionally. Karun Nair found some form going his way in the last game and he would look to capitalise on it, and Pant too would like to add to his impressive tally. The seasoned Zaheer Khan, who led his unit admirably despite defending a not-so- formidable total in the last game against a batting-heavy Rising Pune Supergioants, would want another disciplined outing from his bowlers. Squads Delhi Daredevils: Zaheer Khan (captain), Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson, Rishabh Pant (wk), Karun Nair, Mohammed Shami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jayant Yadav, Pat Cummins, Amit Mishra, Aditya Tare, Shahshank Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Navdeep Saini, Marlon Samuels, Carlos Brathwaite, Murugan Ashwin, Corey Anderson, Ben Hilfenhaus, Ankit Bawne, Pratyush Singh. RCB: Virat Kohli (captain), Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, Samuel Badree, Stuart Binny, Yuzvendra Chahal, Aniket Chaudhary, Praveen Dubey, Travis Head, Harpreet Bhatia, Tymal Mills, Iqbal Abdulla, Kedar Jadhav, Mandeep Singh, Pawan Negi, Adam Milne, Harshal Patel, Billy Stanlake.