The 19th match of IPL 2024 was played between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Rajasthan Royals team won this match with great ease. With this victory, Rajasthan Royals team has reached the first position in the points table. Two players scored centuries in this match. In which the names of Virat Kohli and Jos Buttler were included. Even after Virat Kohli’s century, Royal Challengers Bangalore had to face defeat. Virat Kohli played an innings of 113 runs in 72 balls in this match. After the end of the match, the discussion became very intense that Virat Kohli played a very slow innings. For this reason his team lost the match. However, Virat Kohli’s strike rate in this match was 156.94.
How was the match?
In this match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals, RR captain Sanju Samson won the toss and decided to bowl first. RCB team came to bat first and made a great start. Opener Virat Kohli and team captain Faf du Plessis added 125 runs in 84 balls for the first wicket. By this time it seemed that the team would easily score more than 200 runs, but apart from Virat Kohli and Faf, no other batsman could score runs quickly. In this match, Faf scored 44 runs on 33 balls, Maxwell scored one run on 3 balls, Saurav Chauhan scored 9 runs on 6 balls and Green scored 5 runs on 6 balls. The short innings of other batsmen weighed heavily on the RCB team and they scored 183 runs after losing three wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.
RR’s wonder in the second innings
In the second innings of the match, RCB made a great start and gave a big blow to Rajasthan Royals in the very first over. In the first over of the match, Reece Topley sent Yashasvi Jaiswal to the pavilion, but after this wicket, the RCB team yearned for wickets and Jos Buttler along with captain Sanju Samson made a partnership of 148 runs for the second wicket. During this, Sanju Samson scored 69 runs on 42 balls. After Sanju’s wicket, there was nothing special left for RCB in the match. On one hand, Butler held the innings and he scored a century in 58 balls to win the match for his team. RR scored 189 runs losing 4 wickets in 19.1 overs and won the match by 6 wickets.
Playing 11 of both teams
RCB’s playing 11: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (captain), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik, Sourav Chauhan, Reece Topley, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal.
RR’s playing 11: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper/captain), Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Nandre Berger, Yuzvendra Chahal.
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