RCB vs RR Highlights: Royal Challengers Bangalore broke the losing streak on their home ground this season. They got their first win at their home ground M.Chinnaswamy Stadium. In this thrilling match, Josh Hazlewood turned the match around with his bowling in the last over and defeated Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs.
RCB achieved its sixth win of this season and Rajasthan Royals suffered their 7th defeat. Batting first, RCB scored 205 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. In response, Rajasthan Royals could only score 194 runs at the loss of 9 wickets. RCB came to bat first and top order batsmen Phil Salt and Virat Kohli came in the field. In which Phil Salt scored 26 runs in 23 balls and he scored 61 runs in the powerplay due to his partnership with Virat Kohli. But later Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal took charge of the team and made a brilliant partnership of 95 runs, giving momentum to the team.
Virat Kohli’s Explosive Innings Took Him To Second Place In The IPL Orange Cap 2025 List
Its legendary batsman Virat Kohli lost his wicket after scoring an explosive 70 runs in 42 balls with the help of eight fours and two sixes. Due to this brilliant innings of Virat Kohli, his total of 392 runs this season led to him reaching second place in the IPL 2025 orange cap list and this legend batsman became the second player to score his 60th IPL half-century.
Later Devdutt Padikkal scored his half-century in 27 balls with four fours and three sixes. In the end, Tim David played a strong innings of 23 runs in 15 balls with two fours and a six. With which RCB had made a total of 205 runs for the loss of five wickets.
RCB vs RR Highlights: RR Team Failed To Chase The Target
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Suryavanshi came in the top order for RR. Suryavanshi came to the field as an impact player but he failed. Suryavanshi scored only 16 runs in 12 balls. He was clean bowled by RCB bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar. After this Nitish Rana came to bat. Jaiswal had scored 49 runs in 19 balls till then but Josh Hazlewood took his wicket. Later Rana got the support of captain Riyan Parag and due to his innings the score reached 110 runs. Later Parag lost his wicket to Krunal Pandya after scoring 22 runs. Krunal dismissed Rana for 28 runs.
Josh Hazlewood’s Brilliant Bowling Destroyed RR Explosive Batsman
Now the responsibility of Rajasthan Royals‘ future came on Jurel and Shimron Hetmyer. Dhruv Jurel was set on the pitch and now the team had to score 48 runs in 25 balls. But RCB’s fast bowler Josh Hazlewood achieved an important success by taking the wicket of Shimron Hetmyer at 11 runs. Later, the only hope of Rajasthan Royals was from the batsman i.e. Dhruv Jurel whose wicket was taken by Josh Hazlewood once again. Jurel lost his wicket after scoring 47 runs in 34 balls. Immediately after this important wicket, Hazlewood dismissed Archer at 0. Similarly, RCB’s Josh Hazlewood took the match in his favor by taking 4 wickets and defeated Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs.
