Royal Challenger Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals Highlights IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs in the 42nd match of IPL 2025 on Thursday. Batting first, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 205 runs losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Rajasthan Royals could only score 194 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs.
Highlights of the performance of Rajasthan Royals: Rajasthan, Yashasvi Jaiswal was the top scorer with 49 runs. For Bengaluru, Josh Hazlewood took 4 wickets and Krunal Pandya took two wickets. This is Royal Challengers Bangalore‘s sixth win in IPL 2025, while Rajasthan Royals have lost the seventh match in the ongoing season. Chasing the target of 206 runs, the Rajasthan Royals team got off to a good start with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Suryavanshi. However, Vaibhav returned to the pavilion after scoring 16 runs in 12 balls. Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed after playing a blistering innings of 49 runs in 19 balls. Rajasthan captain Riyan Parag scored 22 runs in 10 balls. Nitish Rana scored 28 runs in 22 balls. Shimron Hetmyer could only score 11 runs in 8 balls. Dhruv Jurel scored 47 off 34 balls and Jofra Archer was dismissed without opening an account. Shubham Dubey could score only 12 runs. Hasaranga scored a run. Tushar and Farooqui remained unbeaten on two runs. Josh Hazlewood scored 4 for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Highlights of the performance of RCB: Batting first, Royal Challengers Bangalore got the first blow in the seventh over. The team‘s opener Phil Salt scored 26 runs in 23 balls. Hasaranga dismissed him. Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal shared a 95–run partnership in 51 balls for the second wicket. Kohli scored 70 runs in 42 balls. Archer dismisses Kohli. Kohli hit eight fours and two sixes in his innings. Devdutt Padikkal scored 50 runs in 27 balls with the help of four fours and three sixes. He was dismissed by Sandeep. Skipper Rajat Patidar could score only one run in three balls. Tim David scored 23 runs in 15 balls and was dismissed on the last ball. Jitesh Sharma scored 29 runs in 10 balls. For Rajasthan Royals, Sandeep Sharma took two wickets, Wanindu Hasaranga and Jofra Archer dismissed one batsman each
Josh hazelwood player of the match: Josh Hazlewood named Player of the Match RCB vs RR live score: Royal Challengers Bangalore fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has been adjudged Player of the Match. He took two wickets in the 19th over to stop Rajasthan from winning the match. He missed out on a hat–trick. He took four wickets for 33 runs in four overs.
Rajasthan Royals seventh defeat: Rajasthan Royals‘ Seventh Defeat RCB vs RR live score: This is Royal Challengers Bangalore‘s sixth win in nine matches in IPL 2025 and Rajasthan Royals‘ the first team to get defeated on RCB home ground.
How the points table look like after RCB win: RCB has cemented the third place again while Rajasthan Royals are still struggling at the 8th position. Rajasthan will have to play some extraordinary cricket to get it’s place in quarter final. Another game where RR have been in a winning position while chasing and they have lost. Has happened for three games in a row. Against DC, LSG and now RCB. They so easily could have won all three and been sitting in the top half of the table. But that’s the cruel reality of T20 cricket. A single mistake could change the entire complexion of the game.
What Rajat Patidar has to say after win: That was a much-needed win. Today the wicket was different and all credit goes to the bowlers after the 10th over. The way they showed courage was tremendous. Initially they batted beautifully, credit goes to them as well.
Virat Kohli In tremendous form: Virat played a match winning knock of 70 runs off 42 ball. This is what he said post matchPretty happy, we discussed a few things as a batting unit and applied ourselves well enough to get a total on the board. The dew really helped in the second half, credit to RR they came out and played good shots ,but to claw our way back and get those 2 points was really crucial.