Rajasthan Royals Registered First Win Of The Season, As They Beat RCB By 7 Wickets

Mumbai: Batting first RCB opening pair witnessed a small change as captain Virat Kohli came as a opener but it didn’t affected much to RR as Shreyas Gopal dismissed Kohli (23) with an surprise delivery ‘googly’ following which Ab De Villiers (13) also failed against Gopal.

Opener Parthiv Patel played an fabulous innings scored 67 runs of 41 balls, at the end lost his wicket to Jofra Archer.

Shimron Hetmyer again failed to impress team didn’t played well missing his form through out the season. Playing first IPL match Marcus Stoinis played well with the help of Moeen Ali both made a good come as the team set a target of 159 runs.

For Rajasthan Royals Shreyas Gopal took 3 wickets in his 4 over spell.

Chasing the target Rajasthan started of well as opening pair Rahane and Buttler. Royals lost their first wicket at 60 in the form of Ajinkya Rahane. Jos Buttler scored his second fifty of the season.

Steve Smith has got his form back had a fifty run partnership with Rahul Tripathi, but didn’t make it as he lost his wicket at second last over.

But, Rahul Tripathi finished the innings in style with a six by which Rajasthan Royals registered their first win of the season. Pressure on RCB continues as they lost 4 out of 4 games. RCB need to win at least 8 of their 10 matches to qualify in playoffs.

For RCB Chahal took 2 wickets in his 4 overs.