Rajasthan Royals Beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 7 Wickets
In the 12TH season of the IPL 2019, Rajasthan Royals Defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 7 wickets and script their First win on their home ground the match was played yesterday at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.
This is Virat Kohli's 100th match as the captain of Bangalore. They have given Marcus Stonis an opportunity to make IPL debut. In addition to Stoney's, Bangalore made two more changes in this match, while Akashdeep Nath and Navdeep Saini were included in the team. Shivam Dubey, Attempted Ray Burman and Colin D. Grandhomme have to return back to the pavilion.
Rajasthan won the toss and put RCB to bat with the help of leg breaker Shreyas Gopal register the 7 wicket win.
Virat Kohli said we were 15-20 runs short. Marcus and Moeen got us to a competitive score. It wasn't easy to score in the end as the wicket became slower. We have 10 games to do, hopefully, we can turn things around. We played well n Mumbai game and in this game too.
And now we have a chance to show our best playing eleven on the field and now by the fourth Consecutive lose Rajasthan claim their win from the last match played in Jaipur. After the win, the Rajasthan started with their first win on the field and also in the IPL 2019.
Bangalore gave the target of 158 runs and chasing 159 runs target, skipper Ajinkya Rahane and Jos Buttler gave the host a perfect platform by adding 60 for the opening wicket. Steve Smith and Rahul Tripathi surrender their 50 runs partnership for the third wicket.
Two changes in Rajasthan
Rajasthan has made two changes. In place of injured Sanju Samson, Stuart Binny has got the chance, while Varun Aaron has been included in the squad instead of Jaidev Unadkat.
Three changes in Bengaluru
This is Virat Kohli's 100th match as the captain of Bangalore. They have given Marcus Stonis an opportunity to make IPL debut. In addition to Stoney's, Bangalore made two more changes in this match, while Akashdeep Nath and Navdeep Saini were included in the team. Shivam Dubey, Attempted Ray Burman and Colin D. Grandhomme has to go out.
Royal Challengers Bangalore takes on Kolkata Knight Riders in their next match on April 05 whereas Rajasthan Royals will face Kolkata Knight Riders on April 07.