RR vs RCB: Rajasthan Royals hit a ‘four’ to win, Royal Challengers Bangalore got its first defeat of this season.

Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajasthan Royals won the 16th match of IPL 2026. Rajasthan Royals defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RR vs RCB) by 6 wickets. With this victory, Rajasthan team has won four consecutive matches this season. With this victory, Rajasthan team has further strengthened its position at number one in the points table. This is the first defeat of RCB.

RCB, who came to bat first after losing the toss, did not have a good start. Phil Salt returned to the pavilion on the very first ball of the match without opening his account. After this, Devdutt Padikkal, who had played half-centuries in the last two matches, was out after scoring 14 runs in 7 balls. Krunal Pandya also got out after scoring one run. Virat Kohli failed to take advantage of the good start and was out after scoring 32 runs in 16 balls. Jitesh Sharma also left after scoring 5 runs. Tim David, who played a brilliant innings in the last match, could score only 13 runs.

Rajat Patidar’s half-century innings

After that Romario Sheppard left after scoring 22 runs. However, Rajat Patidar stood at one end and played a strong inning of 63 runs in 40 balls. Rajat along with Venkatesh Iyer played an important partnership of 41 runs in just 19 balls. At the same time, Venkatesh played an unbeaten inning of 29 runs in 15 balls. Bengaluru team scored 201 runs at the loss of 8 wickets. While bowling for Rajasthan, Joffra Archer, Ravi Bishnoi and Brijesh Sharma took two wickets each. While Sandeep Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja took one wicket each.

Storm of glory seen in RR vs RCB match

In reply, Rajasthan Royals, who set out to chase this target, had a fast start. However, the first wicket fell at the score of 22. Yashasvi Jaiswal was out after scoring 13 runs. After that, Dhruv Jurel supported Vaibhav Suryavanshi from here. Both the batsmen scored 97 runs in 6 overs. There was a century partnership between the two in 34 balls. During this, Vaibhav completed his half-century in 15 balls. After that Vaibhav was out after scoring 78 runs in 26 balls.

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After Vaibhav was out, Hetmyer walked out without opening the account. After that Riyan Parag also got out after scoring 3 runs. From here Ravindra Jadeja supported Dhruv Jurel. During this, Jurel completed his half-century in 25 balls. Dhruv Jurel won the match easily by playing an unbeaten inning of 80 runs. Whereas Ravind Jadeja scored 24 unbeaten runs. Together, they achieved their fourth consecutive win against RCB by scoring 202 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 18 overs. Hazlewood took 2 wickets and Krunal Pandya took 2 wickets for RCB.