Royal Challengers Bangalore won the first match of the season at his home ground Chinnaswamy Stadium. The team beat Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs. Josh Hazelwood gave only 1 run in the 19th over, but took 2 wickets in the over and turned the match aspect. Hazelwood took 4 wickets for 33 runs.
In Bengaluru on Friday, RR won the toss and chose to bowl. RCB scored 205 runs after losing 5 wickets. In reply, Rajasthan was able to score only 194 runs by losing 9 wickets. Yashwashi Jaiswal scored 49 and Dhruv Jurell scored 47. Sandeep Sharma took 2 wickets. Virat Kohli and Devdatta Padikal scored a fifty from Bangalore. Karnal Pandya took 2 wickets.
Match analysis in 5 points …
1. The Match of Player
Josh Hazelwood came to bowl with a new ball and gave up 12 runs in his first over. He also gave up 14 runs in his second over but sent Yashwashi Jaiswal back to the pavilion. In death overs, Hazelwood took 3 wickets in 2 overs and took 3 wickets and won the RCB.
2. The hero of the win
- Karnal Pandya: Karnal came to bowl in the 10th over and Ryan took the pollen wicket. From here, the scoring rate of Rajasthan slowed down. He then sent Nitish Rana back to the pavilion.
- Devdatta Padikal: Pikkal, who was batting at No.3, hit Fifty in just 26 balls. He also made a game changing partnership with Kohli.
- Virat Kohli: Kohli shared 61 runs with Phil Salt. He then added 95 runs with Devdatta Pikkal. Kohli scored a fifty in the second consecutive match and scored 70 runs.
3. Fighter of the Match
Yashwashi Jaiswal, who was opening from Rajasthan, got off to a quick start to the team. He hit a six on the first ball of the innings. Yashwashi scored 49 off 19 balls with 7 fours and three sixes. He was out in the powerplay. Then the batting of Rajasthan collapsed.
4. Turning points
Rajasthan needed 40 runs in 3 overs. Here, Bhubaneswar Kumar gave 22 runs from RCB. Only 18 runs needed 18 runs. Here Josh Hazelwood sent Pole Jureel and Jofra Archer to the pavilion. He just gave up 1 run and saved 17 runs in the last over. Hazelwood proved to be a turning point for the 19th over.
Josh Hazelwood took 2 wickets in the 19th over and turned the match aspect.
5. Kohli became the second top scorer
Gujarat's Sai Sudarshan is the highest scorer of the tournament with 417 runs. Virat Kohli reached second with 392 runs. Josh Hazelwood of Gujarat's famous Krishna and RCB is at the top with 16-16 wickets. The RCB won the sixth match and took third place in the points table. Rajasthan is still 8th.
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