swung away, but this is a steepler towards deep midwicket. Sanju Samson is running IN, K Gowtham is running back from the ingield, the ball curves in the air and as it comes down, Samson oses balance and fumbles, but Gowtham has the presence of mind to take this on the rebound. Stunning win for the Royals. Bangalore boys Gowtham and Gopal have booted RCB out of IPL 2018.
RR vs RCB, 53rd match at Jaipur, May 19 2018 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Shreyas Gopal is the Player of the Match for his magical figures. Over to the second game in Hyderabad, where KKR square off against Sunrisers.
Virat Kohli says: It was a strange one, great position at one stage but the way we fumbled it wasn't ideal. AB was batting beautifully, the decision-making of the others was poor. It shouldn't have been repeated by five-six guys in a row. We wanted to strengthen our middle order that hasn't been our strength for the last few years, something we need to look forward to over the next year and beyond. Scoring and stress in the middle order can't always be on a guy like AB. Here, others around him just didn't show enough composure. Quite a few positives: Umesh was outstanding, Chahal was good, Siraj took his opportunities, Moeen grabbed his chances and gave us the balance. Disappointed to not finish this off after we were cruising, just to see the way it unfolded after that hurts.
7.30pm Rajasthan Royals move to 14 points and are alive in the competition. This has been a superb defence of a total RCB would've gleefully accepted to chase nine times out of ten. What this does is it leaves Royals hoping a slew of results going their way. For starters, they'll want Sunrisers to beat KKR. Then have favours from Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Daredevils tomorrow, so that Mumbai Indians don't go ahead on points.
reverse paddled past short third man. Lost his balance, was made to look ungainly but somehow connected. If he missed, would've been plumb in front of middle.
looks to back away and loft, can only get the bottom of the bat, rolls back to the bowler.
looks to muscle this short ball, toe-ends it and it rolls wide of the pitch
superb yorker angled in towards the base of leg stump, Chahal somehow manages to keep that out
hit back hard but Archer stops it with his boot, they'll scamper a run nonetheless
walks across to ramp this over short fine leg, beaten as he had no pace to work with.
full ball that tails in to beat his defence, there's an appeal for lbw. In the meanwhile, the non-striker hares across to force Chahal into the bye. Klaasen fires a throw at the bowler's end, a direct hit and Chahal would've been gone.
he's got more elevation than distance, would've been six at Chinnaswamy but the boundaries in Jaipur are huge. Swung away and Gowtham takes a simple catch off the toe end at wide long-on.
slower length ball outside off, deviates away. Southee heaves but can't connect.
lofted, but on the bounce to sweeper cover
full toss, swung across to the leg side off the inside edge, down to deep square
walks across the stumps, holds his shape and hoicks this slower ball into the gap at deep midwicket
slower length ball from around the stumps, squeezed to point for a quick single
Unadkat is back
full toss and he steps out to wallop this over mid-off. Clean strike
Rudra Varma: "RCB should have learnt from how Tripathi played in the middle overs in first innings. On such a slow pitch and some wonderful bowling by RR, they should have just milked the spinners in middle for singles, especially since they already had such a good run rate when parthiv and Moeen fell. Absolutely mindless batting by RCB."
flicked neatly down to deep square leg.
slower length ball but way outside off, Siraj looked to upper cut but let it go. Two bounces to the keeper.
thick inside edge onto the pad, rolls to the off side for a single
full toss which angles in as he looks to flick, beaten. Hit high on the pad.
wild heave across the line to a slower length ball, beaten.
squeezes the drive to cover, a direct hit at the bowler's end from Rahane and he would've been gone
Archer is back
Over 20 • RCB 134/10