Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
RR vs RCB Eliminator Match Report: In the eliminator match of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Rajasthan Royals team defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore team by 4 wickets and broke their dream of winning the cup. In this match, the RCB team batted first and scored 172 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. After this, the Rajasthan Royals team chased this target in 19 overs for the loss of 6 wickets. Yashasvi Jaiswal played important innings of 45 and Riyan Parag 36 runs with the bat for the Rajasthan team in this match. Now the Rajasthan Royals team will face Sunrisers Hyderabad in the second qualifier match of IPL 2024, in which this match will be played on 24 May at MA. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Yashasvi and Cadmore gave a fast start to Rajasthan
Chasing the target of 173 runs in the eliminator match, the pair of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tom Colher-Cadmore gave a fast start to the Rajasthan Royals team and made a partnership of 46 runs for the first wicket. Cadmore returned to the pavilion after playing a personal innings of 20 runs. After this, Rajasthan team captain Sanju Samson, who came to bat, made a partnership of 35 runs with Jaiswal for the second wicket. Rajasthan team lost its second wicket at the score of 81 in the form of Yashasvi Jaiswal, who returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 45 runs in 30 balls.
Sanju and Dhruv Jurel lost wickets in quick succession, Parag took charge of the innings.
After losing the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rajasthan Royals soon got the third blow in the form of captain Samson, who lost his wicket after playing an innings of just 17 runs. At the same time, at the score of 112, Rajasthan’s team got the fourth blow in the form of Dhruv Jurel, who was run out on a personal score of 8. From here, Riyan Parag, handling the innings from one end, along with Shimron Hetmyer, made a partnership of 45 runs in 25 balls for the 5th wicket and turned the match completely towards Rajasthan. However, RCB definitely tried to make a comeback in the match, in which Riyan Parag was sent to the pavilion on a score of 157 and then Hetmyer on a score of 160. After this, Rovman Powell, while taking the responsibility of giving victory to the Rajasthan team, played an unbeaten innings of 16 runs in 8 balls and ended RCB’s journey in the 17th season of IPL. For RCB, Mohammed Siraj took 2 wickets while Lockie Ferguson, Karn Sharma and Cameron Green took 1 wicket each.
No batsman could score a half-century in RCB’s innings.
If we talk about the innings of Royal Challengers Bangalore team in this match, none of the batsmen could manage to score even a half-century in this important match. While Virat Kohli scored 33 runs, Rajat Patidar scored 34 runs while Mahipal Lomror scored 32 runs in 17 balls, on the basis of which the team was able to reach the score of 172 runs in 20 overs. In this match, a brilliant bowling performance was seen from the Rajasthan team in which Avesh Khan took 3 wickets, Ashwin took 2 wickets while Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal and Sandeep Sharma took 1 wicket each.
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