RCB vs RR Highlights: Rajasthan Royals lost their home encounter against Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven runs on Sunday. Defending 189 runs, Mohammed Siraj took the big wicket of Jos Buttler in the first over as RR were in big trouble. However, Padikkal and Jaiswal stabilized RR innings. At one stage it looked like that the game slipped away from RCB’s hand but the home team made an explosive comeback to seal the victory. Follow IPL 2023 LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
Batting first, RCB had a poor loss as they lost two quick wickets. However, Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell took on the attack against RR bowlers to put the pressure back on the bowling side. For RR, Trent Boult and Sandeep Sharma grabbed two wickets each.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli(c), Faf du Plessis, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik(w), Suyash Prabhudessai, David Willey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammed Siraj, Vijaykumar Vyshak
Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jason Holder, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
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“I think when you are playing this ground, 10s 12s 13s in an over are chaseable. It is about getting the momentum, normally, Hetty does it for us, but he had an off-day, one shot here and there does it for us. The thought keeps on changing, depends on how the wicket plays, we decide on the time when a wicket falls. Ashwin with his experience, and he has delivered in the pressure moments in the last couple of games,” said Samson at the post-match presentation.
“A six and a four in the Ahmedabad game and we felt we could count on his experience [on Ashwin over Holder]. With the IPL games, winnings and losing is done in very small margins, keep checking small boxes, we need to keep on checking all those. If we had two losses, we need to pull up our socks’ and come back stronger in the next game,” he added.
Fought till the end, but it just wasn’t our night. ☹️ pic.twitter.com/zAfeDeaU8J
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) April 19, 2023
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