Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru, 28th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

RR hit fives sixes in 20 overs and in reply, RCB's Phil Salt smashed 6 maximums. It's fair to say that the game was sealed in the powerplay itself. RR won four out of five matches here at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium last season, not a good start this year. Their campaign so far - LLWWLL - and they'll be eyeing consistency. RCB, meanwhile, have won all their four games on the road and are currently nicely placed - 3rd on the points table. They aren't tinkering their combination and that's always a good sign. That's it from this clash, there's one more game lined up. Switch tabs to follow DC vs MI. See you there...

Philip Salt | Player of the Match: Very pleased, always pleased to contribute to a win. The venue was slightly different, pleased that I could put a stamp on the game for the lads. (On his duel with Jofra) I gave it a chance, early doors to try and hit through the off-side but he was swinging it quite a long way so I realised there's only one area of the ground I could try and hit the ball. Me and Jofra have had a lot of battles in the nets. He's bowled at me more than anyone else and I have faced him more than I have faced anyone else. Nice to have a wood on him. The wicket was slower and lower than anywhere else we've played. I had a real opportunity in the powerplay to put a stamp. Rajasthan played quite well. Our bowlers definitely got the plans right here. They got a pretty good score but it worked for us today with the bat.

Rajat Patidar: It was really amazing. The way the bowlers executed their plans, it's nice to see. (Target in mind?) I don't think so. The way we bowled in the powerplay, that was really special. The wicket wasn't easy to bat. We were targeting 150-170. I get my confidence from my bowlers. They are ready to bowl at any surface and at any stage, that's amazing and gives a lot of confidence for me. (On Salt) I really enjoyed his batting from the dug-out. The way he was striking and at the same time VK rotating the strike, it was really special. We always look to play positive and good cricket.

Devdutt Padikkal: I'm trying to bat a bit differently to what I have been doing in the last few years, it is a conscious effort in the off-season and hopefully I can continue batting like this. This year has been more on the technical side of things, I always had things on the mental side under control, technically I needed to change a few things in order to be at my best and I'm doing that. DK and Andy have worked relentlessly on me over the last couple of months and it is working now. (on scoring runs against RR) Nothing like that, hopefully I can continue scoring runs against everybody. I love playing for this franchise and I really care for this franchise and hopefully I can continue to perform for them. (on their home record) It is coincidence, we have been playing some really good cricket, in T20 cricket, a couple of overs can change the game and that's what has been happening at home. We have been losing wickets in clusters and that is derailing our innings. Apart from that we are doing well and hopefully we can translate that into the home games as well.

Sanju Samson: Absolutely (asked if they felt 170 was a handy score). I think after losing the toss on that kind of a slowish wicket, batting first under the sun for the first 10 overs is tough in day games. We knew they would come hard at us and I think they won the game in the powerplay. Catches win matches. They also dropped our catches and we also dropped their catches (smiles). No doubt we have to improve. Credit to RCB. Ball did come on better in the second innings. They were really good. We have been having some really good chats about improving and coming back strong. We have to leave the thoughts behind and come back positive for the next game.

Stats by Deepu Narayanan

RCB winning green jersey games
Beat KTK by 9 wkts, 2011
Beat GL by 144 runs, 2016
Beat SRH by 67 runs, 2022
Beat RR by 7 runs, 2023
Beat RR by 9 wkts, 2025

Devdutt Padikkal - second Indian player to aggregate 1000+ runs for RCB in IPL after Virat Kohli

RCB have beaten RR in each of the last five day games between the two teams (RR won the previous four day games).

18:47 Local Time, 13:17 GMT, 18:47 IST: Fourth win of the season for Royal Challengers Bengaluru and all of them have come away from home. A comprehensive win and they move to the third spot. Opting to bowl, they restricted Rajasthan Royals to 173/4, courtesy disciplined bowling. Jaiswal top-scored for RR with 75 and Dhruv Jurel played a little cameo towards the end. It wasn't a straightforward batting pitch though but as Samson mentioned at the toss, batting probably got easier as the game progressed. Both teams didn't lose a single wicket in the powerplay. While RR scored 45 in the powerplay, RCB raced away to 65 with Salt alone scoring 46. The Englishman's blitz almost blew the hosts away. Kartikeya removed Salt for 65 to break the 94-run stand but the Royals couldn't apply any sort of pressure on RCB. Kohli notched up a fifty, Padikkal scored a brisk 40 and the duo took their team home comfortably. And the drops certainly didn't help RR's cause. In the fielding department, strangely both teams were sloppy as plenty of chances went down.

Sandeep Sharma to Padikkal, FOUR, 114.1kph, off-speed wide delivery, Padikkal reaches for it and expertly dabs it to the left of backward point. The ball dribbles away to the fence and RCB win the royal clash by 9 wickets!

Sandeep Sharma to Kohli, 1 run, 111.4kph, slower and shorter, Kohli stands tall to go over the covers. The ball falls short of the forward-divng deep cover fielder (Jaiswal)

Sandeep Sharma to Kohli, 2 runs, 130.9kph, short delivery, Kohli pulls between long-on and deep midwicket for a couple of runs

Sandeep Sharma [2.0-0-22-0] is back into the attack

Jofra Archer to Kohli, 1 run, slow and short, Kohli pulls along the ground to deep midwicket

Jofra Archer to Padikkal, 1 run, on the shorter side again, the line is outside off and Padikkal looks to flay it over the off-side. Mishits to deep point

Jofra Archer to Padikkal, no run, that's a snorter from Jofra Archer! 140.6kph, pacy short ball that keeps coming in with the angle. Padikkal arches back and just manages to evade it

Jofra Archer to Padikkal, FOUR, 144.1kph, hold his shape and swings over midwicket. Waits for this full ball coming in by staying back and wallops it

Jofra Archer to Padikkal, no run, high full toss, Padikkal flashes his blade after backing away, gets an outside edge that goes to the keeper on the bounce

Jofra Archer limps! But he'll continue to bowl