RR vs RCB IPL 2022 highlights: Dinesh Karthik powers Royal Challengers Bangalore to a fantastic win

Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Rajasthan Royals by 4 wickets

Is it doable?

Royal Challengers Bangalore need 28 runs in 17 balls at 9.88 rpo

What an innings

Dinesh Karthik is on fire. He’s dealing in 4s and 6s. Raced to 28* off 11. 52 needed off 33 now.

Royal Challengers Bangalore need 52 runs in 33 balls at 9.45 rpo

Will it be Karthik’s night?

Smashed. Makes most of the Free Hit. Full on middle, Karthik clobbers it straight down the ground.

Is it still possible?

Karthik sweeps off Ashwin for a ball that is drifting towards the leg side.

Midway collapse

RCB have gone from 55/1 to 62/4 in two overs.

A big mixup

A bad mixup between Virat Kohli and David Willey, and Kohli departs! A big fish for RR. RCB completely on the backfoot!

A massive blow

Virat Kohli is run out!

RCB have raced to 33/0.

This has been quite different to the watchful start that RR got off to. The fours have come quite easily for Du Plessis and Rawat.

RCB look to get off to a good start!

Shimron Hetmyer, Jos Butler power Rajasthan to 169

Wow!

Power hitting at its very best

Jos Buttler reaches 50

An innings of great determination

Lot of slogging but no joy for RR

Difficult times

The perfect launchpad

Back to back fours from Hetmyer

Second timeout

RR 89/3 in 13 overs. What a period of play this has been. RCB have come right back into this match with those two wickets but they know that they have a job to do.

Sanju Samson on the move

What a hight. Straight over the bowler for maximum

Padikkal dropped, replies with a four

Padikkal hits a flat pull and it’s gone right through Siraj.

Tidy over by Akash Deep

Akash Deep in to bowl the penultimate over of the powerplay. Buttler off the mark with a single in the very first ball.

End of powerplay, RR 35/1

Buttler 10 (14), Padikkal 19 (16). It has been a watchful start so far from RR.

Willey cleans up Jaiswal

Early wickets

what a flick

Vintage Devdutt Padikkal flicks for a maximum

David Willey strikes early

6/1 after 2

Disciplined bowling

Good start from Siraj

Rajasthan vs Bangalore Live score: RCB playing XI

Faf du Plessis (captain), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj

Rajasthan (Unchanged playing XI)

Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson (C/WK), Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Prasidh Krishna.

Toss Time

Royal Challengers Bangalore opt to bowl against Rajasthan Royals

Top Picks ­– Batters

– Virat Kohli has got off to starts in both the matches but could not convert it into a big score. But he is still the best available option in the batting section. Back the veteran to get a big score in this match.- Faf du Plessis has started the season with a bang and is looking in good form, scoring 93 runs in 2 matches at an average of 46.5 and a strike rate of 152.

Playing Probables

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj

RR vs RCB, Match 13 Probable Playing XI

Rajasthan Royals: Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Prasidh Krishna

RR vs RCB, Match 13 Pitch Report

It is a very good-looking pitch and there will be good balance between bat and ball. There is little grass and it is harder for the ball to get stuck into the surface.

Pure Numbers

Royals captain Sanju Samson has been at his offensive best, scoring 55 (27) and 30 (21) runs with eight sixes to his name.

Pure Numbers

In the 23 innings against RR, Kohli has amassed 579 runs, the third-most by any batter, at an average of above 30.