IPL 2022, RR vs RCB highlights: Karthik, Shahbaz lead RCB to four-wicket win

Buttler spoke with the broadcasters in the mid-innings break. He was given back the Orange Cap. “The surface feels a little bit soft. The slower balls and Hasaranga with his googly was slow off the wicket. We'll have to see if it changes with the dew. It was frustrating, but sometimes you have to suck it up and keep going. (On the dew) We're definitely in the game, but a lot will depend on the conditions. I'll still back my bowlers to defend it.”

Hetmyer finishes the innings with a six. What a turnaround that is from RR in the last two overs. Buttler finishes the innings on 70 off 47 balls after having a strike rate just over 100 for much of his innings. Hetmyer, meanwhile is unbeaten on 42 off 31. 

Buttler is giving a spectacular finish to this innings. Goes for it with the bottom hand and the ball sails over long on. RR 160/3 in 19.3 overs, Buttler 67 off 45. 

A single off the first ball and the second is seemingly a dot. But then a no-ball is called and Buttler sends the next delivery for a six. Replays showed that Akash Deep may have got something behind the lines so that may have been an erroneous no-ball call. 

Back to back sixes from Buttler and he reaches his half century. Bludgeons over long-off to end Suraj's 19th over with back to back sixes and that takes his core to 55 off 42 balls. RR are 146/3 at the end of the 19th.  

And finally Buttler connects. He smashes Siraj over long-on for just his second six of the innings. RR would not mind all those swings and misses if he can provide a few more of those in the 7 remaining balls. 

What an effort from Du Plessis at the boundary. Hetmyer clubs it down the ground and Du Plessis runs to his right and puts in a full body dive at long-off. The ball goes through his hands and reaches the boundary. 

Fifth ball of the 18th over and Hetmyer slogs it past long-on. Eight balls between the two boundaries here, Buttler has been shaking his head everytime he went for a shot and it found a fielder. 

RR 127/3 in 18 overs. 

Hetmyer with the much needed six off the third ball of the 17th over bowled by Siraj. A length ball that Hetmyer hits over square leg and into the stands. RR need many more of these. 

Wanindu Hasaranga gave away just four runs in the 16th over in which Buttler and Hetmyer did a lot of swinging, only to get four singles. 

RR are 103/3. Buttler has been there since the start of this innings and has faced only 33 deliveries so far, scoring 37 runs. He has been kept quiet while Hetmyer, after those back to back boundaries, has also seen his strike rate slip below 100. 

Slow yorker from Harshal Patel that Buttler tries to block. Harshal goes up in appeal and the umpire actually lifts the finger. Buttler takes the review straightaway and it looked like there was an inside edge in real time. The replays confirm that and the third umpire doesn't even use ultra edge before asking his on-field colleague to change his decision. 

Off Wanindu Hasaranga of all people to start off the 14th over. The first ball is a dot ball after which the next two are sent to the area beyond the cover fielder. 

RR 89/3 in 13 overs. What a period of play this has been. RCB have come right back into this match with those two wickets but they know that they have a job to do. Buttler is on 34 off 28 and he has the dangerous Shimron Hetmyer at the other end. 

Oh he has chipped right back into the hands of Hasaranga. Samson short stay in the middle comes to an end. He had smashes a six off the second ball of this over after which there was an LBW appeal against him that did not go RCB's way even after a review. In the end, the ball kicking up and taking the splice of Samson's bat is what did it so a short but eventful stay for the RR captain. 

Samson c & b Hasaranga 8 (8), RR 86/3 in 11.4 overs

Padikkal skies an attempted lofted shot off the last ball of the 10th over bowled by Harshal Patel. It has gone quite high in the air and Kohli tries to settle underneath it. He has to dive backwards in the end and falls while keeping the ball in his hand. The catch is actually checked by the third umpire to see if it was a fair one which was strange considering Padikkal had crossed the boundary and Sanju Samson had reached the pitch by that point. Kohli himself is quite bemused by that and in the end, there is no funny business and the dismissal is upheld. 

Padikkal c Kohli b Harshal 37 (29) RCB 76/2 in 10 overs

What a way to bring up the strategic timeout. Buttler steps down the track to Hasaranga off the last ball of the 9th over and nails the biggy over long-on. that takes RR to 73/1 and that first wicket now feels like a distant memory for RCB. 

Full and in the slot from Willey and Padikkal sends it over long-on. 14 runs from the eighth over and RR, like they did against MI, are starting to dominate the middle overs. 

RR 61/1 after 8 overs

Padikkal hooks Willey and Siraj dives forward to try and take a catch. The ball falls just short, slips out of his hands and trickles away to the boundary. 

Akash Deep will be furious with this. He first dropped Buttler off his own bowling after which David Willey dropped a high one at deep midwicket two balls later. Buttler sends the very next ball sailing over long-off for his first six of the night. He takes a couple off the next ball and that takes RR's score to 47/1 after 7 overs. 

Buttler 10 (14), Padikkal 19 (16). It has been a watchful start so far from RR. Buttler, in fact, has a strike rate well under 75 but it is in tune with how he said he approaches innings before this match. RCB will want him gone as soon as possible. 

Fiver overs have gone and just 30 runs have come at a run rate of exactly 6. Padikkal and Buttler have been watchful so far and the pitch does seem to be on the slower side. 

Padikkal pushes at the ball, it takes his outside edge and then beats short third man to run to the boundary. It had been a good over from Willey otherwise. 

RR 25/1 after 4 overs

A half volley outside leg from Siraj and Padikkal makes full use of that loose delivery. He picks it up and deposits it in the stands behind the deep square leg boundary. 

Willey has been getting the ball to swing everywhere and when Jaiswal plays for it, there is none. Jaiswal goes for the drive for the away swinger but the ball keeps straight, goes through his defence and rattles the stumps.    

Jaiswal b Willey 4 (6), RR 6/1 off 1.5 overs