Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs – Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Rajasthan Royals, Indian Premier League 2025, 42nd Match Match Summary, Report
11.50pm Phew, what a thriller! There was a Kohli fifty, a Padikkal blitz. There was a Jaiswal blitz, throughout which he additionally tore into Josh Hazlewood. However the Aussie fast not solely acquired the large wicket of Jaiswal, but additionally got here again to bowl probably the greatest spells of demise bowling you will see, particularly given the stress he was below. RCB have lastly added a ‘W’ at dwelling, and so they have bettered their possibilities at making the playoffs. For Rajasthan Royals, they don’t seem to be knocked out of rivalry mathematically but, however it might take nothing in need of a minor miracle for them to revive this season and play for something apart from, as their stand-in skipper talked about, satisfaction. That is all we have now for you immediately. On behalf of Vishal, Sudeep and Thilak, it is Abhimanyu signing off.
11.45pm Time for the presentation ceremony. Here is what he has to say: “[On the 19th over] I used to be simply sticking to my strengths. I knew arduous lengths had been arduous to hit so i used to be mixing that up with yorkers, change of tempo. [On his evolution as a T20 bowler] I believe it is only a vary of individuals and groups. To begin with it is an opportunity to play the format. For lots of years Take a look at cricket and ODIs had been a desire. However then Sydney Sixers, CSK, RCB, I acquired the prospect to absorb items of data. I simply love our assault. We bounce off one another rather well. The bounce right here has been fairly steep all through the match. Getting the rating we did immediately was actually nice.”
Josh Hazlewood is the Participant of the Match.
Rajat Patidar: “It was a a lot wanted win. At the moment the wicket was totally different, as we had anticipated. All of the credit score goes to the bowlers how they got here again after the tenth over. The way in which they confirmed braveness was super. [On their score of 205] I believe initially RR batted superbly, credit score goes to them. Sooner or later we felt that it might be a decent match and we had been simply trying to find wickets. Provided that you get wickets you possibly can cease runs. I all the time again my instincts first however we have now a bunch of nice leaders, so their ideas and inputs are actually serving to us.”
Kumar: “Hazlewood POTM for me only for that nineteenth over” It appears to be like like this would be the case! He deserves it. Anyway, this ought to be formalised very quickly within the presentation ceremony.
11.30pm Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Nitish Rana and Vaibhav Suryavanshi all tore into RCB’s bowling early on this 206 chase. Rajasthan Royals appeared in management. Then Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma utilized the brakes, with Krunal selecting two wickets as nicely. Josh Hazlewood then bowled a superb seventeenth over. RCB in management? Not fairly. Dubey and Jurel took 22 off Bhuvneshwar’s 18th over to go away RR needing 18 off two overs. However then Hazlewood bowled an over to recollect, gifting away only one run and taking two wickets to seal victory for RCB. Royals have misplaced 5 on the trot, however the story immediately might be RCB lastly giving a jubilant dwelling crowd a win to savour. Batting first, after all, RCB put in a a lot improved show. Kohli, Salt and Padikkal helped set it up for the center and decrease order, and Tim David and Jitesh Sharma offered the end to take RCB to their highest rating at dwelling this yr.
Virat Kohli: “Look, we have had three fairly common video games at dwelling and we mentioned just a few issues we have to get proper as a batting unit and we utilized ourselves nicely to get the overall on board. The pitch wasn’t as flat because the rating makes it look. Dew made the ball come on properly within the second half and credit score to Rajasthan for popping out and taking part in some good photographs. Pushed us again straighaway, however to claw ourselves again into the sport and get these two factors is nice. The primary problem is successful the toss [chuckles]. Within the second half there may be all the time dew. We have struggled to placed on a par rating. The template is now fairly easy, for one man to bat by means of and the others to assault round him. Devdutt and I do know this floor nicely. Simply needed to let Salt to his factor on the high. There’s tempo and bounce within the first few overs with the brand new ball. At the moment we simply tried to time the ball and preserve sufficient stress on the opposition to maintain giving us boundary balls. [Our score] appears to be like sufficient proper now however at one level…”
Riyan Parag: “I believe we did rather well with the ball. I believed it was a 210-220 wicket. We held them again rather well. With the batting, I believed on the midway mark we had been within the driving seat. However we have now ourselves accountable. We did not present sufficient intent in opposition to the spinners and did not execute nicely. The onus is on the gamers to point out that freedom and put in performances with intent. It is a match the place you make one mistake and also you pay for it and that is what occurred immediately. We converse so much as teams, we try to be sincere in our conversations. We now have spoken about conditions like this and we simply could not execute it tonight. We had been within the driving seat and we let it slip. We gotta play for satisfaction now.”
Jai: “One captain RP win over one other captain RP”
Amey: “The curse of Chinnaswamy floor for RCB is lastly damaged.”
