IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Highlights: Bengaluru's dream run ends with 4-wicket loss to Royals in Eliminator

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Yash Dayal had been playing a crucial part in RCB's revival long before he denied CSK in that thrilling final over in Bengaluru. He's taken eight wickets in their six successive wins with an economy of only 7.78, which is sensational considering he bowls at the death. Dayal has a good match up against Jaiswal in T20s: 11 runs off 12 balls for two dismissals.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Both sides have missing spaces in their lineups that was occupied by English players who were quite integral to their campaigns. Jos Buttler occupied that space for RR and the fact is that the team hasn't won a match since he left. Reece Topley and Will Jacks are missing for RCB. Pacer Topley didn't have too much of an impact but the opposite can be said about Jacks, who was the driving force of RCB's turnaround before he left with the rest of his England teammates to play the T20I series against Pakistan.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: RCB lead the head to head 15-13. Since 2020, RCB have enjoyed domination over the Jaipur side with a record of 7-3. In the knockout games, both have lost more than they have won - RCB have six wins and nine losses while RR have four wins and five defeats.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: …Jos Buttler's century trumped Virat Kohli's century. It was RR's fourth consecutive win and it was also their fourth game of the season. Kohli stayed unbeaten on 113 off 72 balls, an innings that sparked an avalanche of debate around his strike rate. His opening partner Faf du Plessis scored 44 in 33 balls and so pathetic were the rest of the lineup that RCB could only get to a score of 183/3 in 20 overs. Jos Buttler, in reply, smashed 100 in 58 balls, hitting the winning runs with a six that also got him to his century. RR won that match by six wickets with five balls to spare.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The Royal Challengers Bengaluru had to cancel their only practice session before the IPL 2024 Eliminator against the Rajasthan Royals due to security concerns. RCB were slated to practice at the Gujarat College ground in Ahmedabad on Tuesday to prepare for the knockout match, but the team decided to cancel it without any official reason. The Rajasthan Royals, on the other hand, went ahead with their regular nets session at the same venue. However, there was no press conference, which is unusual on the eve of a critical IPL knockout match.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Our stats man Nikhil Narine summarises how RCB went about putting up six consecutive wins and doing the improbable.

- Won 6 consecutive matches (2nd longest winning streak for RCB in the IPL)

- Highest batting average for top 5 batting positions (45.3)

- Highest run-rate (11)

- Most sixes (69)

- Most 50+ scores (9)

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: RCB were dead and burried after the first eight seven games of the season. They had won just one of those and had a combination of extremely unlucky defeats and tragicomic collapses in the rest of the games and this led to their path to qualification becoming improbable. And yet, they did the improbable, they stacked up six wins in a row and in the last of those against CSK, they seemed to play almost the perfect T20 game. Everyone who batted fired at a high strike rate and then their fielders hardly let anything go throughout the CSK chase. In case you missed that match, you have to see the highlights, that was a T20 match for the ages.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: This season will be remembered as the one where Riyan Parag finally came of age. He has scored 531 runs this season. There have been only two instances of a batter scoring more runs batting #4 or below in an IPL season - Rishabh Pant (579 in 2018) and Rohit Sharma (538 in 2013).

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Shimron Hetmyer has not played since May 2 because of injury. While he was reported to be fit for RR's last league game, he was not included in the playing XI. He is expected to be fit today and should slot in for Rovman Powell or Donovan Ferreira.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: RR have scored at a run rate of 9.07 in the second half of the league stage, the lowest among the ten teams. Their top four batters had a collective average of 50 and a strike rate of 153 in the first nine games. After that though, they have averaged 31.66 and the strike rate is down to 133.42. Yashasvi Jaiswal has 32 runs in his last three innings, Samson 33 off 34 balls in his last two, and Jos Buttler's replacement opener Tom Kohler-Cadmore made 18 off 23 in his only match ahead of the Eliminator. Only Riyan Parag has remained in form, and RR will hope he gets support above and below him in the batting order.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The Royals looked nigh unbeatable for much of the season and destined to finish top of the table. They had lost just one of their first nine matches. So good was that run of theirs that they qualified for the playoffs despite not winning any of the rest of the games. They lost four on the bounce and the last one against KKR was a washout. The flipside of it was that RR dropped from first to third and will now have to take the scenic route to the final.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The great man has himself admitted many a times that he is not the biggest six-hitter. This season, though, there has been a marked difference in his approach and that is testified by the number of sixes he has hit in the powerplay. Kohli has hit 20 sixes in the powerplay this season - exactly the same number he managed in his next four best seasons as opener combined for the phase.

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, Avesh Khan, Nandre Burger, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Sen, Shubham Dubey, Keshav Maharaj, Donovan Ferreira, Navdeep Saini, Shimron Hetmyer, Tanush Kotian, Abid Mushtaq, Kunal Singh Rathore

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB Live Score, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik(w), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Yash Dayal, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj, Swapnil Singh, Anuj Rawat, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Himanshu Sharma, Mayank Dagar, Alzarri Joseph, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Saurav Chauhan, Rajan Kumar, Tom Curran

IPL 2024, RR vs RCB IPL Live Score: Hello and welcome to the live coverage of IPL 2024 Eliminator match, Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Ahmedabad! Stakes can't be higher as the winner remains in the hunt for the final; on recent form, RCB look to be favourites as the side is on a six-match winning run, but Royals look stronger on paper.