Josh Hazlewood’s spectacular bowling efficiency of 4-33 led Royal Challengers Bengaluru to a slender 11-run victory over Rajasthan Royals within the IPL match at Bengaluru on Thursday. After Bengaluru posted 205-5, Rajasthan fell brief of their chase of 206, regardless of being in a snug place for a lot of the innings.
Within the course of RCB picked up their first house win of the season, snapping a three-match dropping streak. The Rajat Patidar-led facet additionally picked up their first win over Rajasthan Royals after 4 consecutive losses in night matches.
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On the opposite finish, RR at the moment are on a five-match dropping streak in IPL 2025. Ever since beating Punjab Kings on April 5, RR have completed second finest to Gujarat Titans, RCB, Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Tremendous Giants and RCB once more on Thursday. Royals had reeled off 5 straight defeats in IPL 2009-10 as properly.
Within the contest on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Virat Kohli anchored Bengaluru’s innings with a well-crafted 70 off 42 balls, establishing a aggressive complete on the batting-friendly pitch. He shaped essential partnerships, first with Phil Salt for a 61-run opening stand after which with Devdutt Padikkal for 95 runs.

Salt contributed 26 runs earlier than his dismissal within the seventh over, whereas Padikkal scored a fast 50 off 27 balls. Tim David’s 23 and Jitesh Sharma’s unbeaten 20 supplied the ending touches to Bengaluru’s innings.
Jofra Archer was the choose of Rajasthan’s bowlers with figures of 1-33, whereas Sandeep Sharma claimed 2-45 and Wanindu Hasaranga took 1-30.
Rajasthan’s chase started strongly with Yashasvi Jaiswal smashing 49 off simply 19 balls earlier than falling to Hazlewood. Vaibhav Suryavanshi departed early for 16, caught off Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s bowling.

Krunal Pandya’s essential spell eliminated each Nitish Rana (28) and Riyan Parag (22), shifting the momentum in Bengaluru’s favour. Dhruv Jurel’s dismissal for 47 within the nineteenth over, adopted by Archer’s wicket on the following ball, successfully sealed the sport for Bengaluru.
“I feel we did very well with the ball… We held them again very well,” Parag mentioned after the sport. “With the batting, I believed on the midway mark we have been within the driving seat. Now we have ourselves guilty… (The staff was) within the driving seat and we let it slip.”

“I used to be simply sticking to my strengths,” mentioned player-of-the-match Hazlewood. “I knew onerous lengths have been onerous to hit so I used to be mixing that up with yorkers, change of tempo.”
Bhuvneshwar Kumar completed with figures of 1-50 in his 4 overs. Regardless of sustaining a wholesome run fee in the course of the first half of their chase, Rajasthan’s batters didn’t convert their begins into match-winning contributions.