IPL 7 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals Report

35th match of IPL season 7 has been played between Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Rajasthan Royals with unbelievable knock by SPD Smith and JP Faulkner won the impossible match by 5 wickets. JP Faulkner declared man of the match for his firing inning of 41 runs of just 17 balls and picked 1 wicket.

Earlier, Bangalore won the toss decided to bat first. V Kohli open today with CH Gayle. But, experiment could not work and he lost wicket early. Gayle also failed today as out for 19 of 25 balls. Middle order batsmen AB de Villiers (58 runs of 32 balls) and Yuvraj Singh ( 83 runs of 38 balls) played super fast innings for Bangalore and managed to put huge score of 190 runs for Rajasthan,.

Following huge target of 191 runs, AM Rahane and KK Nair started Rajasthan inning slowly and confidently. Rahane got out scoring 24 runs and KK Nair made very useful 56 runs of 39 balls. But middle order failed today and lost wickets in quick successions. Lower Order batsmen SPD Smith and JP Faulkner took the charge and played remarkable innings for Rajasthan Royals. Both go after Bangalore bowlers in later overs and registered unbelievable win by 5 wickets in 18.5 overs. SP Smith smashed 48 runs if 21 balls and JP Faulkner made super quick 41 runs of just 17 balls.

Thus, Rajasthan got 2 important points and Bangalore has to satisfied with 0 points. JP Faulkner declared man of the match for his 1 wicket and firing 41 runs of 17 balls.