Indian Premier League 2025 Match 42: Royal Challengers Bengaluru snatch victory over Rajasthan Royals

by CricDirect Thursday 24 April 2025

Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Josh Hazlewood celebrates the wicket of Rajasthan Royals' Shimron Hetmyer

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru snatched victory over Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs, at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru today

Match Summary

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Rajasthan Royals, Match 42

Royal Challengers Bengaluru 205/5 (20 ov)

Rajasthan Royals 194/9 (20 ov)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 11 runs

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Match Analysis

Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood starred with 4-33 in Royal Challengers Bengaluru's 11 run IPL win at home against Rajasthan Royals, who won the toss and chose to field first Thursday.

Chasing 206 to win after Bengaluru's 205-5, Rajasthan looked comfortable before Dhruv Jurel was dismissed by Hazlewood in the 19th over of the chase.

Jurel scored a 34-ball 47 and was removed with 17 needed off 9 balls for the win.

Hazlewood removed England's Jofra Archer on the next ball, leaving Royals reeling with 17 needed off the final over.

Earlier, Indian batting superstar Virat Kohli hit a 42-ball 70 to steer Bengaluru to a par score on a batting friendly Bengaluru wicket.

Openers Kohli and Phil Salt raced to 59-0 in the powerplay before Salt was removed on 26 in the seventh over with the team on 61-1.

Kohli then built an important 95 run partnership with Devdutt Padikkal before finally falling in the 16th over to Archer.

Padikkal, who was batting very well, fell soon after a 27-ball 50, with Bengaluru on 161-3.

Quick wickets towards the end took away the momentum before key cameos by Tim David (23) and Jitesh Sharma, who remained unbeaten on 20.

Archer was Rajasthan's standout bowler and finished with 33-1. Sandeep Sharma took 2-45 and Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga finished with 1-30.

Rajasthan's young top-order batters started really well and stayed ahead of the required run rate for the first half of the chase.

Indian Test opener Yashasvi Jaiswal hit 19-ball 49 before he was removed by Hazlewood.

His opening partner, Vaibhav Suryavanshi fell early on 16 to India veteran Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who finished with 1-50 in his four-over spell.

Spinner Krunal Pandya bowled an important spell and removed both Nitish Rana (28) and Rajasthan skipper Riyan Parag (22) who looked dangerous after the fall of initial wickets.

Rajasthan were cruising before Rana's wicket in the 14th over but its batters failed to convert starts into a score to help their team cross the finish line.

"I think we did really well with the ball... We held them back really well," Parag said after the game.

"With the batting, I thought at the halfway mark we were in the driving seat," he added.

But "we have ourselves to blame... (The team was) in the driving seat and we let it slip".

Player-of-the-match Hazlewood said that he "was just sticking to my strengths".

"I knew hard lengths were hard to hit so I was mixing that up with yorkers, change of pace," he added.

Match Stats

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Fall of wickets: 1-61 (Phil Salt - 6.4 ov), 2-156 (Virat Kohli - 15.1 ov), 3-161 (Devdutt Padikkal - 16.1 ov), 4-163 (Rajat Patidar - 16.5 ov), 5-205 (Tim David - 19.6 ov

Rajasthan Royals Fall of wickets: 1-52 (Vaibhav Suryavanshi - 4.2 ov), 2-72 (Yashasvi Jaiswal - 5.5 ov), 3-110 (Riyan Parag - 9.1 ov), 4-134 (Nitish Rana - 13.3 ov), 5-162 (Shimron Hetmyer - 16.3 ov), 6-189 (Dhruv Jurel - 18.3 ov), 7-189 (Jofra Archer - 18.4 ov), 8-189 (Shubham Dubey - 19.1 ov), 9-191 (Wanindu Hasaranga - 19.3 ov)