RCB Vs RR Live ScoreRR Vs RCB Highlights: Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated the Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets in the Indian Premier League match on Wednesday. Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal gave RCB a very fast start which was built upon by Srikar Bharat and Glenn Maxwell for a solid partnership in the middle-order. After Bharat was gone, Maxwell exploded and finished off the run chase with 17 balls to spare.
Earlier, Rajasthan Royals ended their innings at 149/9 after 20 overs against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in their IPL encounter on Wednesday. Rajasthan were cruising at 100/1 after 11 overs but lost their way completely after Evin Lewis’ dismissal, losing 8 for 49 in the last nine overs. Batter after batter came in, tried to swing their way to some runs, and perished. Shahbaz Ahmed and Harshal Patel had a wonderful evening, but let’s also not forget Yuzvendra Chahal’s spell for a second game running.
Brief scores:
Rajasthan Royals: Evin Lewis (58), Yashasvi Jaiswal (31); Harshal Patel 3/34, Shahbaz Ahmed 2/10, Yuzvendra Chahal 2/18
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Srikar Bharat (45), Glenn Maxwell (50); Mustafizur Rahman 2/20
Rajasthan Royals
149/9 (20.0)Royal Challengers Bangalore
153/3 (17.1)Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets
And ABD finishes the match off in style with a 4. A terrific performance all around. RCB win by 7 wickets.
Maxwell hits a 6. Morris is not having a good game. And a 4 in the third ball. Four off the fifth ball. 4 in the last ball as well. Brings up Maxwell's 50. RCB just need one now.
Fizz has a great over considering the time and the players on crease. Just 4 off it. And Bharat is gone. Fizz gets his second. RCB 127/3 after 16 overs
Sakariya gets hit for a four straight away. Maxwell knows how to hit em. 8 off the over. RCB 123/2 after 15 ovs
Bharat hits a four off Tewatia. RCB are looking very comfortable with this partnership. 9 off the over. 14 gone. Royal Challengers 115/2
Sometimes, you are a ball magnet. Often in a negative sense, as when you have dropped a catch or let a boundary sieve through your palms, but the ball keeps chasing you. In the seventh over of RCB’s chase, the ball just kept following Riyan Parag, as though it were obsessed with him. The first ball, Virat Kohli bunted a single into his hands, prowling backward point, and he effected a direct hit of little consequence. More of the showboating variety. The next time Kohli regained strike, he slapped the ball airily, again at Parag, who flung to his left and grassed the catch. A ball later, Kohli was again on strike, and he again found his favourite fielder and set off for a quick run. A smuggled run, rather, but he underestimated Parag’s accuracy and power. It was identical to the catch, but this time the ball was hit along the ground. Parag leaped to his left and thwarted the ball, but the ricochet fell a few yards away from him, giving Kohli the leeway to run. But Parag had not lose sight of the ball. He sprung back to his feet, collected the ball in a trice, and thrashed out a tracer-tipped throw that had a searing Kohli stranded at the non-striker’s end, much to the disbelief of the hunter and the hunted. Parag was a ball magnet but this time in a positive sense.
Bharat hits a six. Morris has been expensive so far. Bharat gets down on one knee, goes underneath the delivery and slog sweeps him imperiously. Overs ends at 11 runs. RCB 106/2 after 13 ovs.
Bharat and Maxwell are slowly and surely taking RCB to the finish line. Bharat hit Lomror for a 4 in the 11.1 over while Maxwell ended the last one with a four. RCB 95/2 after 12 ovs.
What should be the hattrick ball? That was the question that Harshal Patel faced for the second successive match. In the last game, Patel had gone for a marvellous slow-dipping yorker. Here, the moment came in the last over after he had taken out Riyan Parag and Chris Morris. In a post-match chat with Yuzvendra Chahal after the last hat-trick, Patel had spoken about his thought process. “Last time (when he found himself with the opportunity to take a hat-trick) I had bowled the same ball (the slow dipping yorker) but it just missed the leg stump by two inches. But I decided to try it again. This was the first hat-trick of my life at any level of the game.” It was a no-brainer then that he would go for the same lucky dipping-yorker and he nailed it too but Kartik Tyagi was ready, and managed to stab it away. Siraj would perhaps be relieved as Patel had almost injured him in hat-trick celebrations by jumping onto his feet. Not to fret though, as Chetan Sakariya would miscue another slower one two balls later to make it three wickets in five balls.
Tewatia comes to ball. Bharat hits a four. Just 7 off it though. Good over. RCB 66/2 after 8 ovs.
Morris to Kohli. Good length outside off stump. Opens the bat's face to backward point. Parag dives, stops the ball, and then takes aim at the bowler's end! Beautiful...it's a direct hit, and Kohli may be out trying to take a single off a misfield. Replays show Kohli is short by a metre or two! RCB 58/2 after 6.5 ovs.
Good end to the last over of the poweplay. Just 6 off it as we go for strategic timeout. RCB 54/1 after 6 ovs
DDP's luck runs out as he is bowled by Mustafizur. Padikkal has been 'Fizz'ed! RCB 48/1 after 5.2 ovs
DDP looks in no mood to relent as Sakariya is punished for a 4 in the 4th ball of the 5th over. 5 off the over. RCB 48/0.
That dropped catch might come back to haunt RR as Padikkal hits a four off Mustafizur. The fifth ball is also hit for a boundary. Perfectly placed shot. RCB 41/0 after 4 ovs.
Sakariya in the attack. Padikkal dropped in the over. Great over. Should have had a wicket. RCB 29/0 after 3 ovs
Padikkal hits a four off Tyagi now. Beautiful shot through the covers. RCB has started pretty quickly just like RR. 5th ball is also timed for a 4. Kohli this time. RCB 26/0 after 2 ovs.
Kohli start with a lucky four. Lovely delivery but the batsman rode his luck. The fourth ball is also pulled for a four. No luck, just skills this time. And the last ball also goes for a four. 12 off the over. RCB 12/0 after 1 over
Kohli and Padikkal are at the crease. Kohli is on strike. Chris Morris will open the attack
Not a hat-trick in a second consecutive match. Harshal Patel, Purple Cap holder, has rattled RR in the last over though. Tyagi and Sakariya finish off for them. A wicket off the last ball as well. A 3rd wicket for Harshal!RR finish with 149/9. RCB to chase 150 to win.
Another wicket! Harshal Patel is on a hat-trick again! What a catch in the deep by Padikkal at deep point! Morris now gone for 14. Will Rajasthan cross even 150?
RR 146/8 after 19.3
Chris Morris has come in at 8. Siraj keeps things tight in the 19th over, but Morris and Parag stem the fall of wickets. Kohli almost pulls off a blinder. While 200 had seemed possible when Lewis and Samson were batting, RR now look hopeful of creeping over 150 in their 20 overs.
Harshal Patel to bowl the last over. Keeps to an outside off stumpt length. Dot ball to start. Parag swings. Out! Caught by Kohli. Gone for 9 off 16 balls.
RR 146/7 after 19.2
Ball of the tournament is passé. Bring on the (wide) ball of the tournament with a sponsor prefix. If so, Harshal Patel’s first ball of his second over would not only be a contender but an outright winner. Bowling from round the stumps to the left-handed Evin Lewis from the edge of the crease, the ball landed somewhere on sixth stump—that is on the leg-side, drifted away and KS Bharat had to spread the full breadth of his wing-span to claw the ball inside his webbing, landing almost where a leg-slip would have been stationed.
So wide a ball that even if Lewis had been right-handed the ball would have still been called a wide. The intended slower ball had slipped off Patel’s greasy palms, and an ashen-faced Patel apologised gingerly to his teammates, especially Bharat, who was still catching his breath after the superman leap (was he a goalkeeper too in school?). The IPL has seen its share of wide balls, from ridiculous to bizarre, but this one would win the contest hands down.
RR 138/6 after 18
17/4 in the last 3 overs. Disaster for RR! Riyan Parag now walks in at 7 to stop the wickets, blocks a few balls from Chahal, as RCB suddenly find themselves on the attack. Livingstone also blocks - happy to take a single off the last ball. Just 4 runs off Chahal's over.
Last 5 overs now. Shahbaz, miracle man, continues for a 2nd over in the 16th. Six singles in the over.
Chahal in the 17th. The big wicket! Livingstone is caught in the deep. Gone for 6. RCB are rampaging. Lewis's rampage seems a lifetime ago.
RR 127/6 after 16.3
Tewatia comes in at 6, there's some serious shuffling of the batting order tonight from RR. KP and Sunny G agree on something for the first time today - they are both critical of Samson's sense of responsibility in losing his wicket at a sensitive time.
Tewatia is now caught at fine leg! The boundary catches keep coming, and the RR collapse continues. A second wicket for Shahbaz Ahmed.
RR 117/5 after 14
Chahal strikes! The googly! Lomror is out of his crease and he is stumped. Gone for 3. Livingstone joins Samson now. RR are 113/3 after 13 overs, as the last Timeout of the innings is taken. 7 overs to go. How much more can they add? Can Samson take the score close to 200?
Huge wicket! Samson now falls. Tried to cart Shahbaz Ahmed over extra cover but is caught in the deep. Gone for 19. Some quick wickets falling now.
RR 113/4 after 13.1
Mahipal Lomror in at 4. Not Liam Livingstone. Both teams holding back some of their trump cards. Chahal for RCB, the English middle-order phenom for RR.
A marvelously laden-with-undertones exchange between KP and Hayden in the comm box. KP is unimpressed at Lewis not going on to get more than 58, saying 'great players' always go on to gets 80s, 90s and 100s. Hayden says personal targets are signifying 'greed' and that batsmen don't usually think themselves, only about the team's runs. KP says, 'Great players do'. Hayden offers nothing in reply.
RR 109/2 after 12
Samson faces Chahal. Six! Nothing going RCB's way tonight. Garton brought back into the attack. And he gets the man who started all the carnage! Big wicket - Lewis finally falls for 58.
RR 100/2 after 11.1
When does the ball become dead? We would have found out had the umpires got involved after RCB wicketkeeper Srikar Bharat’s attempted run out of Yashasvi Jaiswal.
In the last ball of the third over bowled by Glenn Maxwell, Jaiswal had cut to the point fielder. Even as the throw came to Bharat, Jaiswal was in his own bubble, shadow-batting that cut shot again. Bharat spotted an opportunity and started to move his right glove, that held the ball, towards the stumps and waited for Jaiswal’s foot to be lifted in the air. The front foot was outside the crease and the back was shuffling up and down. Bharat would then remove the bails at a rather interesting point and it would have perhaps needed slow-motion replays to conclusively say whether the foot was grounded or not.
It’s not clear whether he appealed (broadcasters only showed him taking off the bails). According to Law 20.1.1, the ball becomes dead when “it is finally settled in the hands of the wicket-keeper or of the bowler”. Would the umpires have deemed the ball was dead by the time Bharat tried to give it a re-birth?
Yuzvendra Chahal has dismissed Sanju Samson five times in 37 balls. He's still not into the attack though. It's Harshal Patel who continues - Evin Lewis brings up his half-century with a four - his first 50 for the Royals.
RR 91/1 after 10
Dan Christian, who keeps drifting to his right at the end of his delivery stride, is into the attack as the Powerplay ends. Will his unusual angle give RCB the breakthrough they need? With his lack of pace not allowing the huge sixes, Jaiswal goes the other way - he scoops a four behind the keeper - 11 runs off the 7th over. Kohli looks a little fidgety, most of his tricks not working so far.
Still no Chahal though, Maxwell returns to bowl the 8th over - it was his over in the Powerplay which began this carnage - he has better luck with the field more spread out now - just 4 runs in the 8th over. Srikar Bharath on the stump mic sounds suspiciously like Rishabh Pant as he offers encouragement to Maxi - 'Lovely bwuoy!'
Danny C gets the first wicket! Jaiswal goes down the ground. Caught at mid off. Gone for 31. Lewis, meanwhile, nears his 50. Sanju Samson joins him. On the immediate agenda for the RR skipper - the Orange Cap.
RR after 77/1 after 8.2
With things spiralling out of control for RCB, Kohli goes to Harshal Patel, his most successful bowler this season. Lewis has tasted blood now though, he is finding the fence at will. The Ewin Lewis show continues! Six down the ground! 13 runs off the 5th over. 44 runs have come in the last 3 overs! After just 8 came in the first 2 overs.
Last over of the Powerplay now - Kohli goes to Siraj to put a lid on things. Excellent bowling by the pacer but the RR openers still manage to rotate the strike. What an over by Siraj! Just 4 runs off it.
RR 56/0 after 6
Maxwell bowls the 3rd over. The second ball is smashed for a 96-m six by Jaiswal! Two balls later, Lewis slashes and finds the gap past point. Four! After 2 cheap overs by the pacers, 13 runs come off Maxwell's over.
Change of ends for Garton - Lewis pulls - six more! 98 metres! Huge sixes hit by both batsmen, with the shackles now very much off. Boundaries galore now, a misfield helping RR on their way. A massive six by Lewis again...the ball is disappearing in the stands. Replacements balls are running out now, with the fourth umpire being run ragged in these initial overs. 18 runs off the 4th over!
Keeper Srikar Bharath earns Sunny G's ire for appealing for a stumping because the batsman was shadow practising during a dead ball. Wicket doesn't fall, but the RCB keeper is the topic of a 'spirit of cricket' discussion in the comm box.
RR 39/0 after 4
Three dot balls in the first over off Lewis, one dot ball off Jaiswal. Three runs in the 1st over. Siraj Garton's new ball partner. Bowls Test match lengths at good pace, Jaiswal slashes without making contact. Jaiswal finally finds the connection off the last ball of the over - driven for four.
RR 8/0 after 2
Lewis and Jaiswal walk out to the middle to begin the RR innings. Debutant Garton to bowl the first over.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have won the toss and have opted to field.
Teams:
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Evin Lewis, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Liam Livingstone, Mahipal Lomror, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Kartik Tyagi, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli(c), Devdutt Padikkal, Srikar Bharat(w), Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers, Daniel Christian, George Garton, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal
Both RCB and RR are part of the mid-table logjam from 3rd to 7th. RCB have 12 points from 10 matches and RR have 8 from 10. A win for RR will put them further into the logjam. If RCB win, they pull ahead in the race for the 3rd spot and push RR below KKR and MI for the 4th spot.
A rare day at this point of double-header-filled days when there is one match. Kohli's RCB (high on the table but not high on form) meet with Samson's RR, who are high on neither chart. Samson has been playing a lone hand for the Royals with the bat. Can they find a new heroes tonight?
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