Bengaluru: On match eve, Rajasthan Royals head coach Rahul Dravid had anticipated that the pitch would be a batting friendly one. With the M Chinnaswamy Stadium being his backyard, Dravid couldn’t have gone wrong. And the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) batters didn’t take long to finally take ownership of their turf.
After losing three consecutive matches at home, RCB’s top-order came together on Thursday night to ensure the team got to a healthy 205/5. The youngsters in the Rajasthan batting lineup set out to make a match of it, but their familiar fetish of losing close matches from winning positions came back to haunt them.
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Needing 22 runs off the last two overs with five wickets in hand, RR allowed RCB to walk away with a 11- run victory, their first home win of the season. The away side finished with 194/9. What hurt RR’s chances the most was their poor fielding and the 15 extras they conceded.
RR openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (49) and teen talent Vaibhav Suryavanshi gave the visitors a rollicking start with their 26-ball 52 run association. But Suryavanshi’s inexperience was on show as he swung his bat to a Bhuvneshwar Kumar delivery which crashed into middle stump. Jaiswal, who started the chase with a six off Bhuvneshwar, followed his opening partner, miscuing a pull short to Romario Shepherd at midwicket.
The rest of the top and middle order kept Rajasthan in the hunt, until RR’s exuberance was doused by the experience of Josh Hazlewood (4/33). The Australian pace ace turned around the match in the 19th over, picking the wickets of Dhruv Jurel (47) and Jofra Archer, while conceding just one run.
RCB’S BATTING SHOWEarlier, RCB openers Phil Salt (26) and Virat Kohli (70; 42b, 8x4, 2x6) lived on the edge, riding on luck and the largesse of better-fingered Royals. Visiting stand-in skipper Ryan Parag was the first to fumble, putting down a full toss from Fazalhaq Farooqi at mid-off which could have sent back the dangerous Salt for just a solitary run.
That was in the second over, and the beginning of many of Royals’ blunders, not the least of which was their bowlers spraying deliveries all over. That lifeline cost the away side 25 runs as Salt got into the groove. At the other end, Kohli took his time to get his eye in, but there was a free flow of runs, including boundaries, courtesy some cheeky edges.
It took a combination of former RCB players to end the opening partnership, with Salt offering a leading edge to Shimron Hetmyer at midwicket off spinner Wanindu Hasaranga . The wicket had no bearing on RCB’s run rate as Devdutt Padikkal (50; 27b, 4x4, 3x6) joined forces with Kohli, who signalled his half-century with a boundary through third man.
Archer was brought back into the attack in the 16th over and he struck off the first delivery as Kohli’s luck finally ran out. Sandeep Sharma (2/45) then sent back Padikkal.
After losing three consecutive matches at home, RCB’s top-order came together on Thursday night to ensure the team got to a healthy 205/5. The youngsters in the Rajasthan batting lineup set out to make a match of it, but their familiar fetish of losing close matches from winning positions came back to haunt them.
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Needing 22 runs off the last two overs with five wickets in hand, RR allowed RCB to walk away with a 11- run victory, their first home win of the season. The away side finished with 194/9. What hurt RR’s chances the most was their poor fielding and the 15 extras they conceded.
RR openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (49) and teen talent Vaibhav Suryavanshi gave the visitors a rollicking start with their 26-ball 52 run association. But Suryavanshi’s inexperience was on show as he swung his bat to a Bhuvneshwar Kumar delivery which crashed into middle stump. Jaiswal, who started the chase with a six off Bhuvneshwar, followed his opening partner, miscuing a pull short to Romario Shepherd at midwicket.
The rest of the top and middle order kept Rajasthan in the hunt, until RR’s exuberance was doused by the experience of Josh Hazlewood (4/33). The Australian pace ace turned around the match in the 19th over, picking the wickets of Dhruv Jurel (47) and Jofra Archer, while conceding just one run.
RCB’S BATTING SHOWEarlier, RCB openers Phil Salt (26) and Virat Kohli (70; 42b, 8x4, 2x6) lived on the edge, riding on luck and the largesse of better-fingered Royals. Visiting stand-in skipper Ryan Parag was the first to fumble, putting down a full toss from Fazalhaq Farooqi at mid-off which could have sent back the dangerous Salt for just a solitary run.
That was in the second over, and the beginning of many of Royals’ blunders, not the least of which was their bowlers spraying deliveries all over. That lifeline cost the away side 25 runs as Salt got into the groove. At the other end, Kohli took his time to get his eye in, but there was a free flow of runs, including boundaries, courtesy some cheeky edges.
It took a combination of former RCB players to end the opening partnership, with Salt offering a leading edge to Shimron Hetmyer at midwicket off spinner Wanindu Hasaranga . The wicket had no bearing on RCB’s run rate as Devdutt Padikkal (50; 27b, 4x4, 3x6) joined forces with Kohli, who signalled his half-century with a boundary through third man.
Archer was brought back into the attack in the 16th over and he struck off the first delivery as Kohli’s luck finally ran out. Sandeep Sharma (2/45) then sent back Padikkal.
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