Rajasthan defeat Bangalore by 29 runs

In the 39th match of IPL 2022, Rajasthan Royals defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 29 runs. RCB had a target of 145, in response to which the team could not even play the entire over and was all out on 115. Not a single player of the team could even cross the mark of 25 runs.

Faf du Plessis (23) was the top scorer. Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldeep Sen got 3-3 wickets for RR. The team led by Samson has reached the first position in the points table with 12 points. Rajasthan has won 6 out of 8 matches and lost 2.

At the same time, this was Bengaluru's fourth loss in 9 matches. The team has won 5 matches. Earlier, batting after losing the toss, Rajasthan scored 144 for the loss of 8 wickets. Riyan Parag played the highest unbeaten innings of 56 runs. Josh Hazlewood and Mohammad Siraj took 2 wickets each for RCB.

R Ashwin made a big record

With one wicket in the match, Ravichandran Ashwin became the 8th player to take 150 wickets in the IPL. He achieved this feat by dismissing Rajat Patidar. Ashwin became the second off-spinner after Harbhajan Singh to take 150 wickets in the IPL.

He bowled brilliantly in the match, taking 3 wickets in 4 overs. Ashwin dismissed Rajat Patidar (16), Shahbaz Ahmed (17) and Suyash Prabhudesai (2).

Kohli did not walk even in the opening

Virat Kohli got a chance to open against Rajasthan, but once again failed to play a big innings. The former RCB captain was dismissed by famous Krishna and caught by Riyan Parag at backward point. Virat returned to the pavilion after scoring 9 runs in 10 balls.

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Riyan Parag played a brilliant innings in difficult conditions for Rajasthan. The youngster completed the second half-century of his IPL career in just 29 balls and scored 56 runs in 31 balls. In the last two overs of RR's innings, 30 runs were scored and all the runs were scored by Parag.

Mitchell's slow batting

Rajasthan batsman Darryl Mitchell batted slow in the match, it seemed that he is enjoying Test cricket in T20 cricket. He faced 24 balls and scored only 16 runs. His strike rate was only 66.67.

Samson out for 27

Sanju Samson was dismissed for 21 balls 27 off Wanindu Hasranga's delivery. Hasaranga dismissed Sanju for the fifth time in T20 cricket. Hasranga had bowled a googly ball to Samson on the fourth stump, which Sanju wanted to reverse sweep, but the ball hit him on the wicket.

RCB dominate in power play

In the first 6 overs, the innings of Rajasthan Royals looked completely scattered. The team scored 43 for the loss of 3 wickets in the power play. Devdutt Padikkal (7) and R Ashwin (17) were dismissed by Mohammad Siraj, while Josh Butler (8) was dismissed by Josh Hazlewood.

• In the 5th over of RR's innings, Hazlewood took the wicket of Butler for no run.
• In the first 36 balls, 6 fours and 2 sixes were hit by Rajasthan.

Siraj took the wicket after hitting a six.

Mohammad Siraj came to bowl the second over of the innings and Devdutt Padikkal hit a six off the very first ball. There were no runs in the next two balls and on the fourth ball, Siraj took revenge for a six by LBW to Padikkal. Devdutt returned to the pavilion after scoring 7 runs. After this R Ashwin came to bat and hit a brilliant four in the last two balls of the over. The first boundary was hit by Ashwin at deep square leg and the second at backward point.

In the next over of Siraj, Ashwin also hit two fours in two consecutive balls. Ashwin also played a big shot on the last ball of the fourth over, but lost his wicket. R Ashwin was dismissed for 17 runs in 9 balls. His catch was caught by Siraj on his own ball.

Playing XI of both the teams

Making a change in the playing-11, RCB has included Rajat Patidar in place of Anuj Rawat. At the same time, RR made two changes and included Darryl Mitchell and Kuldeep Sen in place of Karun Nair and Obed McCoy.

RR: Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (w/c), Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Daryl Mitchell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Kuldeep Sen, Pranand Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal.

RCB: Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Suyash Prabhudesai, Rajat Patidar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasranga, Josh Hazlewood, Mohammad Siraj.