Highlight:
- Rajasthan Royals lose to Bangalore Royal Challengers
- RCB remain third with 14 points from 11 games
- With eight points from 11 games, Rajasthan’s play-off hopes have dimmed
Bangalore: Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat first. Bangalore beat Rajasthan by 7 wickets in the Royal match. Bangalore reached the target in 17.1 overs for the loss of just 3 wickets. Captain Virat Kohli (25), Devdutt Padikkal (22), Glenn Maxwell (50 not out) and Sreekar Bharat (44) were the top scorers for Bangalore. Bangalore activated their play-off hopes with their seventh win in 11 games.
Earlier, Rajasthan lost the toss and opted to bat first. Evin Lewis and Jaiswal Jaiswal put on 77 for the opening wicket in 8.2 overs. Jaiswal scored 33 off 22 balls. Lewis scored 58 off 37 balls. Sanju Samson scored 19 off 15 balls, including two sixes. But after this no one was able to bat well.
Rajasthan, who reached 100 for 1 in 11 overs, were bowled out for just 149 in the allotted 20 overs. Meanwhile, he lost 9 wickets. Rajasthan reduced the score to 149 with irresponsible batting. For Bangalore, Herschelle Patel took three wickets while Chahal and Shahbaz Ahmed took two wickets each.
Rajasthan Royals: Evin Lewis, Yashaswi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Liam Livingstone, Mahipal Lamore, Ryan Parag, Rahul Thewatia, Chris Morris, Karthik Tyagi, Chetan Zakaria, Mustafizul Rahman.
RCB team: Devadath Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Sreekar Bharat, AB de Villiers, Glenn Maxwell, Dan Christian, George Gorton, Shahbaz Ahmed, Hershal Patel, Mohammad Siraj, Yusvendra Chahal.
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