RR vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2024 Eliminator: Rajasthan Royals Knock Out Royal Challengers Bengaluru
RR vs RCB IPL 2024 Eliminator: Rajasthan Royals handed Royal Challengers Bengaluru a defeat to eliminate Faf Du Plessis & Co. and set up a Qualifier 2 contest with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).
That's it from our coverage of this match. R Ashwin was ajudged the Player Of The Match as RR set up a clash with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Qualifier 2. The winner of that game will meet Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the IPL 2024 Final. Click here for a detailed report of this Eliminator as RCB's wait for a maiden title continues. We hope you enjoyed our coverage as much as we did trying and bringing in speedy updates for you. From all of us at ABP Live, thank you and good night.
Powell with a siX to finish things off. RR beat RCB by 4 wickets to move to Qualifier 2. RCB suffer another heartbreak in IPL cricket.
Successive boundaries off the bat of Powell. RR need 5 to win now. Surely their game to lose from here.
Ashwin joins Powell. Ferguson to bowl the 19th. RR need 13 from 12.
THe Game's Not Over yet. Shimron Hetmyer's leading edge carries to off side where Faf du Plessis takes a super catch. RCB are fighting hard. RR- 160/6 after 18 overs.
Rovman Powell new man in for RR. Run a ball with 5 wickets in hand.
Siraj removes Parag but RR now need 16 off 16. Parag falls for 36 off 26. Can RCB still squeeze a win from this?
Four More from Parag. Brings out the ramp does Parag and smartly plays it over short third. RR get 17 runs off the over. RR- 143/4 after 16 overs. They need 30 runs from 24 balls.
Two Sixes In the over already, first pulled by Hetmyer for a six. The second over extra cover from Parag for a maximum. Green under pressure.
RR need 47 runs from 30 balls.
And a Virat Kohli run out. You just can't keep him out of the game can you. Brilliant sprint and throw to catch Dhruv Jurel out of his crease at the non-strikers end. RCB inching back into this match. RR- 112/4 after 13.1 Overs.
RR Batters Out In The Middle Are Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag.
And Samson is out stumped. The RR captain came down the track and gets beaten. DK does the rest. Karn Sharma gets the wicket as Samson goes back for 17 off 14. Two quick wickets for RCB. Can they make a match out of it from here? RR- 85/3 after 10.1 Overs.
Jaiswal falls for 45 off 30. It's given not out but RCB review and as it turns out he had edged one Green delivery to the keeper. RR- 81/2 after 9.2 overs.
Sanju Samson walks in at 3 for RR. Men in Pink looking comfortable in this run-chase.
Lockie Ferguson Strikes. He gets rid of Kohler-Cadmore, rattled his stumps with a beauty. The batter had been dropped by Glenn Maxwell in the last over but Ferguson has cleaned him up. He falls for 20 off 15. RR- 46/1 after 5.3 Overs.
First four boundaries in the Yash Dayal over off the bat of Jaiswal. A dropped catch helped him get the first one but he was well in control of the other three. Three boundaries of the subsequent over then, which was bowled by Siraj. Two among these were struck by Kohler. Jaiswal found the other boundary. RR- 35/0 after 4 overs.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore open for RR in their 173 chase. Swapnil Singh, Mohammed Siraj sharing the new ball for Bengaluru.
Karn Sharma goes for the big but holes out in the deep on the off side. RCB finish at 172/8 in 20 overs. From 122/5 in the 15th over, they might think, they have recovered alright but RR would have been happy if they had been given this target before the match. RR need 173 to win. R Ashwin and Trent Boult, the stand out bowlers really but contribution from Avesh Khan shouldn't get unnoticed either.
Two Boundaries In 20th Already. A four off a misfield off the bat of Karn and then Swapnil middles one for a SIX. RCB past 170 already.
Swapnil Singh is RCB's Impact Player. He is batting with Karn Sharm in the last over. Sandeep will finish things off for RR.
Lomror's cameo comes to an End. He falls for 32 off 17. Full and wide but Lomror can't clear the man. Powell takes the catch. RR- 159/7 after 18.5 Overs. Third wicket for Avesh.
Avesh Khan bangs this one short of a length and Karthik goes for the pull but only manages a top edge. Yashasvi Jaiswal takes a good catch. Karthik out for 11 off 13. Is this the last of DK in IPL cricket or will RCB qualify for the next game and give him another game (or two)? We shall find out.
Boult Bowls Out. His last over goes for 10. RCB- 154/5 after 18 overs.
DK, Lomror Eye Strong Finish for RCB.
RCB- 144/5 after 17 overs.
Patidar may have started Avesh Khan's over with a six but falls next ball as he fails to clear the in-field. He falls for 34 off 22. RCB- 122/5 after 14.2 Overs.
19-Run Over For RCB. Just what the doctor ordered for them. Lomror with a SIX in that Chahal over while Patidar smashing a FOUR and a SIX. RCB- 116/4 after 14 overs.
Mahipal Lomror has joined Patidar after the fall of those wickets.
Ashwin gets a wicket. Hang on, make it two in two! He may have been deprived of a wicket in his previous over throught that dropped catch but this time around, he has struck twice in two balls. First a well-set Green (27 off 21) and then Glenn Maxwell (0) first ball. RR- 97/4 after 12.4 Overs.
Ashwin has pulled his length back and Patidar mistimes a pull and what should have been an easy catch is dropped by Dhruv Jurel. Massive moment in the game as Patidar gets a life. Ashwin only concedes 6 off his third over and should have ideally had a wicket to his name. RCB- 82/2 after 11 overs.
Halfway Through. Green took the attack to Chahal in this over, smashed a SIX and a FOUR as RCB fetch 13 runs off the over. RCB- 76/2 after 10 overs.
Seems like Ashwin And Chahal will continue for a while.
Kohli departs. He tries the slog sweep against Chahal but finds the fielder in the deep. Massive moment in the game as The Orange Cap holder departs for 33 off 24. RCB- 56/2 after 7.2 Overs.
Ashwin Concedes 6 Runs off his 1st and that will be the first strategic time out of the game. RCB- 56/1 after 7 overs. Virat Kohli- 33* off 23, Cameron Green- 3* off 6.
It's spin into the attack right after the powerplay. Ravichandran Ashwin has the ball in hand.
Sandeep to end the powerplay for RR. He concedes two boundaries in the over. RCB- 50/1 after 6 overs. Both off the bat of Kohli who has been joined by Cameron Green after Du Plessis' wicket. 13 runs off Sandeep's second to finish off the fielding restrictions.
Boult Ends Another Beautiful Over. 3 Runs and a wicket from it. It's a dream spell from the speedster at the big stage. RCB- 37/1 after 5 overs.
Boult strikes. He has got his reward for some good bowling but full marks to Rovman Powell who dived forward to take catch after Du Plessis mistimed a pull. He falls for 17 off 14. RCB- 37/1 after 4.4 Overs.
Boult's third over.
Four more runs to end the over. It's precisely the kind of over that RCB needed after pressure from Boult's end. Du Plessis scores the second boundary of the over. RCB fetch 17 runs off the over. They are 34/0 after 4 overs.
And another boundary. It's Du Plessis this time who tries the scoop and executes it well enough to find the boundary. Turning to be a good over for RCB. Not quite for Avesh and RR.
Somehow RR have not been able to sustain the pressure from both ends. Avesh Khan replaces Sandeep and he tries a bouncer that he is easily hooked for six by Kohli first ball.
Boult has set the tone for RR and how. No wicket yet for him but his 2 overs have gone for 5 runs. 3 singles off his second. RCB- 17/0 after 3 overs.
No surprises there that Boult will continue.
This time it is Faf Du Plessis smashes one down the ground and RCB are up and running. 12 runs coming off Sandeep's first. RCB- 14/0 after 2 overs.
Kohli Charges Down the Wicket and pulls Sandeep for the first boundary of the match. How is that for intent!
Sandeep Sharma is sharing the new ball with Boult for RR.
Boult Hits The Right Areas. He has got a bit of movement in that first over and it's a tidy one from the Kiwi pacer. Only 2 runs from the first over then. RCB-2/0 after the 1st over.
Out come the Bengaluru openers- Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis. What an encounter this promises to be. Trent Boult has the ball in hand for RR.
Playing 11s
RR: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper/captain), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
Impact Sub Options: Nandre Burger, Shubham Dubey, Donovan Ferreira, Tanush Kotian, Shimron Hetmyer
RCB: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (captain), Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Yash Dayal, Mohammed Siraj, Lockie Ferguson
Impact Sub Options: Swapnil Singh, Anuj Rawat, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vyshak Vijayjumar, Himanshu Sharma
BREAKING NEWS: Rajasthan Royals Elect To Bowl First.
We are less than 30 minutes away from the toss then. What drama and excitement then. Win the toss and bat first or bowl first in this big pressure game?
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Less than 2 hours to go for the toss then. Crowds have started to come in at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. An eventful evening ahead of us, for sure.
Matches played: 31
RR won: 13
RCB won: 15
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Background
RR vs RCB Live Score, IPL 2024 Eliminator: It's a do-or-die contest between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) coming your way live from the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Wednesday (May 22). In more ways than one, it's a contest between two sides who have had contrasting forms heading into this month.
While Bengaluru had a miserable start to the season and were on the verge of elimination from the race to the Playoffs, they win six matches in a row in the latter half of the season to pull a rabbit out of the hat and secure a spot in the Eliminator. Rajasthan, meanwhile, have just been the opposite- so good and clinical in the first half but struggling for a win in the latter.
In this must-win game then willl Rajasthan manage to get back to winning ways after a winless run for the entire month or will it be Bengaluru who have hardly put a foot wrong in May and have stormed their way into the final four. We shall find out over the course of the next few hours.
As far as as team news are concerned, RCB are expected to be unchanged given the way they have played and especially after their win over Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their last league fixture where Glenn Maxwell came in place of Will Jacks and did make an impression with the ball and in a cameo with the bat.
As far as RR are concerned, the team might look to fit in a Shimron Hetmyer. The West Indian hard-hitting batter batter has been out with an injury since May 2 but with Rajasthan not in the best of form and desperate for a win in this big game, they can get back to him.
At the outset then, it appears to be a fascinating contest but dare we say it's RCB with their noses ahead, given the form and momentum behind them.
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