The 19th match of IPL 2024 is being played today at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) vs Rajasthan Royals (RR).
After winning the toss, Rajasthan Royals chose to field first and gave the choice of batting to RCB.
So now it remains to be seen whether Rajasthan, which has won 3/3 matches in IPL 2024, repeats its victory or RCB, which has won 1/4 matches, is able to complete its quest for victory after consecutive defeats.
Let us come together and enjoy today’s great fight…
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RCB vs RR, 1St Inning Set target by RCB
With 1 win followed by 3 losses, Royal Challengers Bangalore went into the field for the next win.
In today’s brilliant match, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis scored 125 runs in 14 overs for the first wicket.
Along with this, Faf du Plessis returned to the pavilion after scoring 44 runs in 33 balls, but Virat Kohli remained firm.
In the end, after losing the toss, Royal Challengers Bangalore, who came to bat first, scored 183 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs, thus setting a target of 184 runs in front of Rajasthan Royals.
Virat Kohli scored a brilliant century for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Virat Kohli returned not out after scoring 113 runs in 72 balls. He hit 12 fours and 4 sixes in his innings.
With this, Virat Kohli scored the eighth century of his IPL career.
At the same time, Virat Kohli has crossed the century mark 9 times in this T20 format.
RCB vs RR, 2nd Inning Recounter by RCB
To ensure their next victory, RCB started chasing the target of 184 runs.
After 10 overs, Rajasthan has scored 95 runs with the loss of one wicket, after this, Rajasthan has scored 152 runs in 15 overs, with this it now needs 32 runs in 30 balls to win.
During this time, Jos Buttler batted brilliantly and scored a half-century. He hit 7 fours and 1 six.
With this, in the end, Rajasthan Royals batsmen completed the target by scoring 189 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 19.1 overs.
Thus, Rajasthan Royals continued their winning streak in IPL 2024.
RCB vs RR: Statement
Kumar Sangakkara: It was a good toss to win, pretty decisive to chase. RCB put us under pressure but the spinners and Burger got us back into the game.
And the chase was clinical from Jos, Sanju and others. Everyone requires a chat but it does not need to be about cricket, form is a state of mind and Jos is the best white-ball opener in cricket for some time, you just have to let him be.
Jaiswal has had a brilliant year or two not just for RR but also in international cricket, two bad innings does not make anyone a bad player, we know his quality and we just want him to bat long, it was nice to chase down this total without his contribution.
There have been a lot of honest conversations, Sanju and I have connected well and have been speaking in the off season as well, the focus has been more inward than outward as a coaching staff this season.
Faf du Plessis | RCB captain: I think we found the wicket tricky in the first innings. I thought 190 was a good score, think we could have added 10-15 runs max. Their spinners bowled well (in the middle overs), good decision by them to bowl first. With the dew batting got easier.
Virat was playing well at the back end, with someone like Green coming in, you want to maximise those last overs. We tried to squeeze as hard as we can, but it was tricky to hit against the spinners. It was easier to hit the seamers.
The pitch definitely got better, you could feel it, the ball was skidding along nicely. We were excellent in the first four overs. I think that 20 runs (from Dagar) over took the momentum away and shifted the pressure back on us.
Not bowling Maxwell was because all right-handers were batting, so went to the left-handed spinner initially. With two right-handers at the crease, went to the left arm spinner and later got the leg spinner (Himanshu Sharma) into the attack. There was no point of being defensive, we needed wickets.
When we got Jaiswal out, I didn’t feel the need to go to Maxwell. Fielding was average, it’s something we have spoken about, we’ll work and try to improve. Not worried about catches, it’s about showing intensity on the field.
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