Royal Challengers Bangalore Make their Way to the Top After Beating Rajasthan Royals in Match 16 of IPL 2021

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Friday, 23rd April 2021

The Royal Challengers Bangalore find themselves back on the top spot on the points table as they take their team to victory in Match 16 of the Indian Premier League, 2021 against Rajasthan Royals.

RCB won the match by 10 wickets and 21 balls to spare with stellar performances by Devdutt Padikkal and skipper Virat Khli. While Padikkal scored his first and fastest IPL 100, team captain Virat Kohli also exhibited a great show with his half-century, also making it the first of its kind this season.

The Rajasthan team on the other hand hardly showed any grit with their bowlers getting smashed by the RCB openers from the very start of their innings and throughout the 16.3 overs. With their fourth win this season Bangalore gets propelled to the top position of the points table, while RR slips to the bottom-most slot after yesterday's loss.

The Royals were completely dominated from the very start by the RCB opening batsmen making it an overall one-sided affair.

After Over 16.3: RCB 181/0 - RCB team is taken home with Padikkal completing his century.

After Over 10: RCB 107/0 - 71 runs to win from 60 balls, RCB score 11 runs off Mustafizur Rahman's second over including Devdutt Padikkal's six and 5 more singles came off that over.

After Over 1: RCB 8/0 - Four dot balls, a double and a six, scored by Kohli

After Over 20: RR 177/9 - 2 wickets and seven runs from the last over of the innings.

After Over 17: RR 145/6 - Score 9 runs from Harshal Patel's third over, Four singles, a wide, a dot ball and a boundary to the full-toss in the last delivery.

After Over 10: RR 8/0 - Scores 6 singles from Washington Sundar's second over. Shivam Dube and Riyan Parag seem well set.

After Over 1: RR 8/0 - After four dot balls, Jos Buttler scores two boundaries off the bowling of Mohammed Siraj after 4 dot balls.

Players XI

RR XI: Jos Buttler, Manan Vohra, Sanju Samson (C & WK), David Miller, Riyan Parag, Shivam Dube, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Shreyas Gopal, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman.

RCB XI: Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli (C), Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (WK), Shahbaz Ahmed, Washington Sundar, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Kane Richardson, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.

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