The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 Eliminator match between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Wednesday marked an exciting and memorable game.
After winning the toss, Rajasthan Royals took a bold decision and elected to bowl.
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1St Inning, RR vs RCB: Set target by RCB
In the match played between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), RCB, batting first, scored 172 runs in 20 overs and lost 8 wickets.
Among RCB batsmen, Virat Kohli scored 33 runs in 24 balls, which included 3 fours and 1 six. His strike rate was 137.5. Captain Faf du Plessis scored 17 runs in 14 balls, which included 2 fours and 1 six.
After him Glenn Maxwell was out without opening the account. Rajat Patidar scored 34 runs in 22 balls and hit 2 fours and 2 sixes. His strike rate was 154.55. Mahipal Lomror also made an important contribution and scored 32 runs in 17 balls, which included 2 fours and 2 sixes. Wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik scored 11 runs on 13 balls.
In the last overs, Swapnil Singh scored 9 unbeaten runs in 4 balls, which included 1 six, and his strike rate was 225. In the end, Karn Sharma scored 5 runs on 4 balls. Among the bowlers of Rajasthan Royals, Avesh Khan took the highest wickets with 3 wickets, while Ravichandran Ashwin took 2 wickets. Chahal, Boult and Sandeep Sharma also played important roles in restricting RCB to 172 runs by taking one wicket each.
RCB’s performance was satisfactory, but they lost several important wickets, due to which they could not score a big score.
2nd Inning, RR vs RCB: Recounter by RR
In the second innings of the eliminator match, Rajasthan Royals (RR) performed brilliantly against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). RCB, batting first, scored 172 runs in 20 overs and lost 8 wickets.
Chasing the target, RR scored 174 runs in 19 overs and won by 6 wickets. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 45 runs in 30 balls which included 8 fours. Tom Kohler-Cadmore scored 20 runs in 15 balls, while captain Sanju Samson added 17 runs in 13 balls.
Riyan Parag scored 36 runs in 26 balls and Shimron Hetmyer scored a quickfire 26 runs in 14 balls. Rovman Powell scored unbeaten 16 runs in 8 balls and R Ashwin remained unbeaten without scoring any runs.
RR’s excellent batting contributed to this victory and they successfully crossed RCB’s target of 172 runs.
This evening was quite disappointing for RCB, after its brilliant performance in the last round of IPL 2024, it made its place in the play off, but in the eliminator match, RCB lost against Rajasthan, after which the dream of winning the IPL 2024 cup also ended.
On the other hand, Rajasthan will face Hyderabad in Qualifier-2. After which we will enjoy the final match with KKR in IPL 2024.
Eliminator, RR vs RCB: Statement
Faf du Plessis: With the dew coming, we felt we were short with the bat. Did think we were 20 runs shy of what was a good score. Credit to the boys – they fought really well. That’s all you can ask for.
If you look at naturally assessing the pitch and conditions, you would say it’s a 180 pitch because it was swinging upfront and was quite slow.
But what we’ve found out this season, with the impact player, the par score isn’t enough any more. Also with the dew coming in. Extremely proud. Lot of teams – their wheels would’ve fallen off after 1 from 9.
To come back like that, six games in a row, takes a lot of heart and character. We weren’t special tonight in terms of pushing that extra 20 runs with the bat.
Sanju Samson: What cricket and life has taught us is we will have some good and some really bad phases. But we need to have the character to bounce back. Really happy with the way we fielded, we batted and we bowled today.
Credit to the bowlers, they are always looking at what the opposition batters would do and what fields to set. Credit goes to Sanga and bowling coach Bond as well. They’ve spent a lot of time in hotel rooms discussing these things. They are 22 each, so is Jurel. With very little experience, the way they are performing at this level is amazing. I’m not a 100% actually.
There is a bug in the dressing room, lots of coughs and a lot of people are a bit unwell. Rovman finished that off well. I think we have a travel day and rest now, looking forward to the next game.
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