11th match (N), Indian Premier League at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, Apr 15 2018
Rajasthan Royals 217-4 (Sanju Samson 92*, Ben Stokes, Yuzvendra Chahal 2-22) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 198-6 (Virat Kohli 57, Mandeep Singh 47*, Shreyas Gopal 2-22) by 19 runs.
Man of the Match: Sanju Samson, for his match-winning innings of 92.
Sanju Samson amused a full house at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru with an innings of high aristocratic and set the footing for Rajasthan Royals’ second conquest of the term. Put in to bat, RR posted 217-4, the highest total so far in VIVO IPL 2018, riding on Samson’s unbowed 92. In the second half of the competition, Royal Challengers Bangalore were constrained to 198-6. End result: the Rajasthan Royals triumphed by 19 runs.
RCB, requiring to post the maximum run-chase in the history of the IPL, put up a contest.They were off to a fast start, making 64 in the first six overs. But the sackings of Quinton de Kock (26 from 19), Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers (20) in the space of 31 runs all but put the lid on the chase. Kohli would be RCB’s top-scorer; he made 57, getting to his half-century in 26 balls, his quickest in T20 cricket.
Later in the innings, Mandeep Singh (47) and Washington Sundar (35 from 19) tacked together a 56-run partnership but the task was close to dreadful.
Sanju Samson made 92 from 45 balls, and his innings was decorated with 10 sixes and two fours. Samson didn’t have to cudgel the ball, but instead trusted on timing. He was 34 from 25 after 15 overs, and afterward added 48 from the next 20 balls he faced; in this retro, he hit Umesh Yadav for three sixes, hit Kulwant Khejroliya for two sixes and hit Chris Woakes for two fours and as many sixes.
The leg-spinners on the two sides, YuzvendraChahal & Shreyas Gopal, finished with identical returns of 4-0-22-2.
The performance of Chahal, when the rest of his teammates went at the rate of 11.81 runs per over, he finished with an economy rate of 5.50!
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