Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Rajasthan Royals: Batting first, Royal Challengers Bangalore have scored 201 runs. In this rain-affected match, Bengaluru team lost 6 wickets at the score of only 94, but Rajat Patidar’s captaincy innings and finally Venkatesh Iyer’s cameo innings took Bengaluru beyond 200. Iyer came to bat as an impact player, scoring 29 runs in 156 balls.

6 wickets fell within 100

In this match being played at Baraspara Stadium in Guwahati, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and invited RCB to bat first. Phil Salt was out on the first ball of the match. Devdutt Padikkal remained at the crease for some time and along with Virat Kohli added 45 runs, but Padikkal was out after scoring only 14 runs. Jofra Archer took the wickets of Salt and Padikkal.

Bangalore had got a bright start, but Virat Kohli was also out before the end of the powerplay. Kohli scored 32 runs in 16 balls. It was not known when Krunal Pandya and Jitesh Sharma came and when they left. Both had lost their wickets within just 14 balls. Tim David also started well by hitting 2 fours, but was caught by Shimron Hetmyer on the score of 13. Within no time, RCB had lost 6 wickets till the score was 94.

Patidar’s captaincy innings, Iyer also shined

RCB team had lost 6 wickets till the score of 94. From here captain Rajat Patidar took charge of the team and played a fighting inning of 63 runs in 40 balls. In this innings he hit 4 fours and 4 sixes. His partnership of 31 runs with Romario Shepherd and 41 runs with Venkatesh Iyer took care of the Bengaluru team.

Patidar was out after scoring 63 runs in the 18th over. Venkatesh Iyer had scored 9 runs in 9 balls by the end of the 19th over, but he created havoc in the last over. In the 20th over, Iyer hit 2 sixes and a four. A total of 21 runs came in this over.