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Royal Challengers Bangalore won the first match of the season at their homeground Chinnaswamy Stadium. The team defeated Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs. Josh Hazlewood spent only 1 run in the 19th over, he overturned the match with 2 wickets in this over. Hazelwood took 4 wickets for 33 runs.
On Friday, RR won the toss in Bengaluru and chose bowling. RCB scored 205 runs losing 5 wickets. In response, Rajasthan could only score 194 runs after losing 9 wickets. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 49 and Dhruv Jurlel scored 47 runs. Sandeep Sharma got 2 wickets. Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal from Bengaluru put fifty. Krunal Pandya took 2 wickets.
Match analysis in 5 points …
1. Player of the Match
Josh Hazlewood, who came to bowl with the new ball, spent 12 runs in the first over. He also scored 14 runs in his second over, but sent Yashasvi Jaiswal to the pavilion. In Death, Hazlewood then took 3 wickets for 7 runs in 2 overs and won the match to RCB.
2. Hero of victory
- Krunal Pandya: Krunal, who came to bowl in the 10th over, took the wicket of Ryan Parag. It is from here that Rajasthan’s scoring rate slowly increased. He then sent Nitish Rana to the pavilion.
- Devdutt Padikkal: Padikkal, who came out to bat on number-3, put a fifty off 26 balls. He also held a gamechanging partnership with Kohli.
- Virat Kohli: Kohli partnered 61 runs with Phil Sold. Then also added 95 runs with Devdutt Padikkal. Kohli scored fifty in the second consecutive match and scored 70 runs.
3. Fighter of the Match
Yashasvi Jaiswal, who came out to open from Rajasthan, gave the team a fast start. He hit a six on the first ball of the innings. Yashasvi scored 49 runs off 19 balls with 7 fours and 3 sixes. He was dismissed in Powerplay. After him, the batting of Rajasthan was shattered.
4. Turning point
Rajasthan needed 40 runs in 3 overs. Here Bhuvneshwar Kumar spent 22 runs from RCB. There was a need of 18 runs off 12 balls. Here Josh Hazlewood sent Dhruv Jurael and Jofra Archer to the pavilion. He spent 1 run and saved 17 runs for the last over. Hazlewood’s 19th over proved to be the turning point of the match.
Josh Hazlewood overturned the match with 2 wickets in the 19th over.
5. Kohli becomes the second top scorer
Gujarat’s Sai Sudarshan is the top run scorer of the tournament, he has 417 runs. Virat Kohli reached the second number with 392 runs. Famous Krishna of Gujarat and Josh Hazlewood of RCB are at number one with 16-16 wickets. RCB won the sixth match to finish third in the points table. Rajasthan is only at number 8.
