RCB Vs RR, IPL 2025 Match 42 Highlights: Virat’s Half-Century and Hazlewood’s Crucial Spell Power Royal Challengers Bengaluru to 11-Run Win Over Rajasthan Royals, Securing First Home Victory of the Season

RCB VS RR IPL 2025 Match 42 Highlights: Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs and secured their first home victory of the season and 6th of IPL 2025. RCB completes a heist to break their 3-game losing streak at the MCS this season. Credit to Hazlewood, who turned the match in favor of his team in the 19th over. Also, brilliant start given by Devdutt Padikkal & Virat Kohli, who kept the momentum up for RCB, and their half centuries helped RCB cross the 200-run mark. 

RCB vs RR Full Squads

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee

Rajasthan Royals: Riyan Parag (c), Sanju Samson, Shubham Dubey, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Rana, Kunal Singh Rathore, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Ashok Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka, Sandeep Sharma, Maheesh Theekshana, Yudhvir Singh.

24 April 2025

23:22 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: RCB Won By 11 Runs 

Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs and secured their first home victory of the season and 6th of IPL 2025. RCB completes a heist to break their 3-game losing streak at the MCS this season. Credit to Hazlewood, who turned the match in favor of his team in the 19th over. 

23:03 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Hazlewood Gets 2 in one Over

Hazlewood brings a match in RCB's favour and gets two back-to-back wickets. It will be Yash Dayal to bowl it. He famously defended runs against CSK to help RCB reach the playoffs last year. 

RR: 189/7 (19)

22:45 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Simron Hetmyer Departs 

 A back of a length delivery on middle, Hetmyer looks to flick, thick inside-edge on to thigh and an easy catch for Jitesh Sharma behind the stumps. 

RR: 162/5 (16.4)

22:26 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Nitish Rana Departs 

Krunal Pandya is pumped. Big wicket this. Length delivery on middle, Nitish bends low to sweep, Bhuvi needn't have leapt there at short fine-leg but does so, palms it up before catching the rebound. 

RR: 134/4 (13.4)

22:14 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Riyan Parag Departs 

Krunal Pandya strikes the first ball and removes Riyan Parag. Riyan Parag aims a big slog sweep, and the top edge goes straight up. Jitesh Sharma calls for it and takes it comfortably. That's the wicket RCB needed badly. 

RR: 110/3 (9.1)

22:04 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Timeout 

Brilliant start for RR. They are well ahead of RCB at the same stage. And RR's skipper, Parag is in the mood to go for it. The pitch seems to be playing a bit better than the first innings.

RR: 99/2 (8)

21:56 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Yashasvi Departs 

The change of angle works and Hazlewood has the last laugh in this battle after taking a bit of punishment. Jaiswal can't believe it. Was a breathtaking knock and he falls just one short of his fifty. Angled into the body, short of length, climbs sharply and gets big on his attempted pulll shot. He miscues it off the splice and it balloons to midwicket for an easy catch. 

RR: 72/2 (6)

21:21 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Vaibhav Suryavanshi Departs 

Bhuvneshwar provides the much-needed breakthrough and brings the crowd to life! Keeps it simple, goes full and straight, and ensures he hits the stumps as Suryavanshi misses. He was making room, looking to go over extra cover, but got beaten on the edge as it crashed into the middle. 

RR: 58/1(5)

21:13 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: RR Need 206 Runs To Win

Formidable score from RCB after being put into bat. The pitch didn't seem straightforward with some variance in bounce and pace. And all eyes are on the RCB Bowler to defend this total. 

RCB: 205/5 (20) 

20:58 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Patidar Departs 

Double strike from Sandeep as Patidar doesn't last long! Short of length outside off, cross seam at 128kph, he looks to cut but fails to get on top of the bounce, nicking it through to the keeper. 

RCB: 167/4 (17)

20:46 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Padikkal Departs 

Devdutt Padikkal departs after scoring an important 50 for his team, and Sandeep Sharma gets his wicket of the match. Slower ball angling away outside off, back of a length, Padikkal tries slapping it through the off-side but the ball kicks up and he spoons it to extra cover. A superb knock comes to an end.

RCB: 161/3 (16.1)

20:30 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Virat Departs 

Archer gets a big wicket, removes in-form Virat Kohli. Short of length on off, slower leg-cutter, and it grips and holds in the pitch as Kohli tries punching it over extra cover. 

RCB: 156/2 (15.1)

20:15 IST

RCB vs RR, IPL 2025 Live: Virat Scores Another 50 

Virat Kohli scores his 5th fifty of the season and first in his home ground, M. Chinnaswamy, Bengaluru. Virat has been consistent with his form from the start of the tournament, delivering class knocks for his team. 

RCB: 109/1 (12)

20:08 IST

RCB vs RR, IPL 2025 Live: Wanindu Removes Phil Salt 

Wanindu breaks the partnership and removes Phil Salt, breaking the momemtum for RCB Slower and on the stumps, teasing the batter to play a big shot. Salt attempts the slogsweep and ekes out a thick top-edge to the left of deep mid-wicket. 

RCB: 62/1 (7) 

19:58 IST

RCB vs RR, IPL 2025 Live: End of Powerplay 

Virat Kohli & Phil Salt have given an explosive start for Royal Challengers Bengaluru and both the openers are in good form and aiming to give RCB a big total.

RCB : 59/ 0 (6)

19:17 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Impact Subs, Rajasthan Royals

Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya, Kunal Singh Rathore

19:13 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Impact Subs, RCB 

 Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh

19:10 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Playing XI, Rajasthan Royals 

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubham Dubey, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag(c), Dhruv Jurel(w), Shimron Hetmyer, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma

19:08 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Playing XI, Royal Challengers Bengaluru 

 Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar(c), Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal

19:06 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Captain's End 

Rajat Patidar: We would have loved to bowl first as well, the surface has been tricky and unpredictable this season and we will try to adapt as quickly as we can. We have to be good at shot-selection. We are going with the same team.

Riyan Parag: We will bowl first. The wicket looks a bit sticky and should get better later on. It's back to our ethics now, if we can give our 100 percent, the results will take care of themselves. Sanju (Samson) bhai is recovering and hopefully he will be back soon. One change for us. Theekshana is out and Farooqi is in.

19:05 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Toss Update 

Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided and bowl first against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. 

18:34 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025:  Sanju Samson On Guiding Vaibhav Suryavanshi 

" Just sit back & observe."

Sanju Samson opens up on nurturing young talent to guiding 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the RR skipper reflects on how observation and quiet confidence bring out the best in players. _#IPLonJioStar _ #RCBvRR | THU, 24th APR, 6:30 PM on Star_ pic.twitter.com/jyhalkZyJG

— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) April 24, 2025

18:09 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Virat's Legacy Started

___ _____ __ ____ ___ ____ _____! ______#OnThisDay in 2016, Virat Kohli registered his maiden IPL century, an unbeaten 1__0__0__ against the Gujarat Lions.

Fast forward to today, and he stands tall with 8__ IPL tons - the most in the tournament's history!_ pic.twitter.com/tWrz4OV5Uc

— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) April 24, 2025

17:43 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Jofra At His Best 

RR's PowerPlay bowling has been a tale of two halves: Jofra Archer and everyone else. The England quick has picked up six wickets in the phase while going at under eight an over. The rest have managed just two wickets collectively, conceding at 9.10. 

17:37 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Head-to-Head 

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Lead against Rajasthan Royals with 16-14. RCB won the return fixture in Jaipur a week ago with a dominant performance.

17:26 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Sandeep Sharma vs Virat Kohli

Sandeep Sharma has dismissed Kohli seven times in T20s, and in Jaipur, Kohli was dropped off the first ball of Sandeep's spell.

17:13 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Simron Struggles In IPL 2025 So Far

Shimron Hetmyer, a big-ticket retention for RR, has managed only 115 runs from eight innings so far and has struggled to close out games. 

16:59 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: RCB's Losing Drought Against RR In Night Matches

Royal Challengers Bengaluru have lost each of their last four night games against RR. Interestingly, they've emerged victorious in the last five-day games in this matchup.

16:41 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Weather Watch

Clear skies and the harsh sun over Bengaluru suggest minimal dew, which could make batting first an advantage. Teams will have to adjust their strategies based on how the pitch plays throughout the day, as the sun’s intensity might slow the surface.

16:38 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Parag’s Dual Role Bonus

Riyan Parag, with his batting and occasional bowling, offers valuable fantasy points. His form has been inconsistent, but if he clicks, Parag can provide a match‑winning performance for RR, especially with their top order struggling.

16:00 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Watch for Krunal’s Match‑ups

Krunal Pandya’s left-arm spin could be crucial against RR’s right-handed heavy batting lineup. His control in the middle overs is often a game-changer, and he could be a differential pick in fantasy leagues if he delivers under pressure.

15:48 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Differential Pick—Hazlewood

Josh Hazlewood has been superb on the road, maintaining an economy rate of just 6.8. His ability to adapt to varying conditions makes him a solid pick for fantasy leagues, especially if RCB can capitalize on his favorable home conditions in this matchup.

15:30 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Toss Trend

Conditions in Bengaluru suggest that the team winning the toss might opt to bowl first. The dry pitch and harsh sun make it difficult to chase under lights, and understanding the dew factor will be essential for both teams as they plan their strategies.

15:07 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Fine‑Tuning vs Tinkering

RCB has largely stuck to a settled lineup, which has paid off, while RR continues to shuffle their players in search of the right combination. This contrast in approaches—RCB’s consistency vs RR’s experimentation—could be a decisive factor in the outcome of this match.

15:07 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Death‑Overs Doom

RR’s economy rate of 12.5 RPO in overs 17-20 is the second-worst in the competition, signaling their weakness in the final overs. Teams have often capitalized on RR’s inability to finish well, which could be exploited by RCB's in-form finishers like Tim David and Romario Shepherd.

15:03 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Sanju Samson Will Be Unavailable 

Sanju Samson, the regular RR captain, has stayed back in Jaipur as he looks to shrug off a side injury that kept him out of the previous game. 

14:40 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Archer’s Powerplay Punch

Jofra Archer has been RR’s most consistent bowler in the powerplay, picking up six wickets at an economy of 8.2. His ability to strike early has often kept RR in the game, but they need him to maintain this form throughout the match, especially with other bowlers struggling.

14:20 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Pitch Parallels 2017

This season’s Chinnaswamy pitch resembles the 2017 conditions—slower surfaces and lower-scoring games. With the ground staff covering the pitch in two layers of hessian, it’s likely to favor spin and slower bowlers, making adaptability key for both teams. Expect slow, tactical battles under the scorching Bengaluru sun.

14:11 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Middle‑Order Mystery

RR’s middle order remains a key area of concern. Despite having the Impact Player rule, RR’s batting depth has been exposed in critical situations. Their middle-order collapses, especially in close games, have been a major obstacle, leaving them chasing even when they control parts of the match.

14:07 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Impact‑Player Paradox

While RR has been able to leverage the Impact Player rule, they’ve struggled to find a solid playing combination. The constant tinkering with their lineup hasn’t helped them build momentum, and they’ll need to make quick decisions on their best squad if they’re to salvage a playoff spot.

13:43 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Spin Squeeze Missing

RCB’s spinners have struggled at home, managing just one wicket in 15 overs with an economy rate of 9.6. Their spin attack has been much more effective away, picking up 15 wickets in 35 overs. If RCB is to break their home jinx, their spinners need to step up.

13:07 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Middle‑Order Mystery

RR’s middle order remains a key area of concern. Despite having the Impact Player rule, RR’s batting depth has been exposed in critical situations. Their middle-order collapses, especially in close games, have been a major obstacle, leaving them chasing even when they control parts of the match.

13:00 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Powerplay Police

RCB's impressive powerplay economy of under 8 runs per over is one of the best this season. With bowlers like Hazlewood and Kumar leading the charge, RCB has managed to keep opposing teams in check early on, giving their batting side a chance to chase down targets with confidence.

12:28 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Jaiswal’s Rebound

After a slow start to the season, Yashasvi Jaiswal has found his rhythm, scoring four half‑centuries in his last five innings. His resurgence offers hope for RR, who need his consistency at the top of the order to set a solid foundation for big totals.

12:11 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Salt vs Short Ball 2.0

Phil Salt faces a critical test against Jofra Archer after falling victim to the short ball in previous encounters. Archer’s fiery pace in the powerplay could unsettle Salt again, making this battle a key one to watch. Will Salt adapt and back himself to take on Archer’s tactics?

11:53 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Kohli the Chase‑Master

Virat Kohli’s three unbeaten fifties in successful chases this season reinforce his reputation as a clutch player. His presence in the middle overs ensures RCB can chase down any target, making him indispensable for RCB’s chances in this crucial match against RR.

11:48 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Captaincy Void

Sanju Samson’s injury leaves Riyan Parag with a leadership role he’s yet to fully master. Parag has struggled with form, and his captaincy hasn’t inspired confidence, adding weight to an already tense situation. With RR’s season on the line, Parag must rediscover his IPL 2024 magic.

11:33 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: RR’s Four‑Loss Spiral

Rajasthan Royals are reeling from a four‑match losing streak, putting their playoff hopes in jeopardy. As they face off against RCB, RR needs to reverse their fortunes quickly. With pressure mounting, their inability to close out games has become a major talking point.

10:58 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: Road Warriors Shine

RCB’s unbeaten road record (4‑0) highlights their balanced team structure and adaptability. The team has figured out how to win away, and the key challenge now is translating that success into their home games, where conditions and mindset differ.

10:43 IST

RCB vs RR Live Score IPL 2025: “Fortress?” Falters

RCB remain 0‑3 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, making it a significant issue as they struggle to adapt to home conditions. Cracking this home‑ground jinx is crucial for their playoff push. Fans and analysts alike are intrigued by RCB’s inability to secure a win at home despite their dominant away form.

10:29 IST

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