IPL 2025, RCB vs RR Highlights: Hazlewood 4-fer masterclass forces another RR implosion at the death

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: 18 runs and a wicket in these last 3 overs, and big for RCB as they stall the RR momentum. Nitish and Jurel looking a little tentative, but still rotating strike.

78 needed off the last 8, in the balance for now.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Little bit of a break between overs and RCB benefit! Tossed up from Krunal, and it's a swipe across the line that Parag just pops into the air. It's been a streaky innings from the RR captain, gone for 22(10).

Pressure back on RR. 110-3, their weaker middle order exposed.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Good batting from Nitish Rana with a couple of boundaries using traditional shots through the offside for 4s.

110-2 after 9 suddenly. RR controlling the chase so far but they need to keep the momentum.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Romario Shepherd bowls a pretty good over, but goes for 15! Last two balls are two top edges, for 10 runs. Tough game for bowlers.

87-2 after 7 and spin is on, Suyash Sharma.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Huge wicket, right as Jaiswal was really beginning to time it! A couple of great cut shots and an uppercut to get boundaries, but Hazlewood comes around the wicket, cramps Jaiswal for room, and that does the trick. Can't connect on the pull and it floats to midwicket.

72-2 at the end of the powerplay. Jaiswal set the stage but the fragile middle order needs to come through.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: There's RCB's breakthrough! Bhuvneshwar gets hooked over fine leg for six, but it's a good comeback. Just seams away from Suryavanshi's swing, knocks back his middle stump.

The teenager out after 16(12), but RR have a start. 52-1 in just 4.2 overs. Need to keep this momentum going.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Jaiswal rushed on the first three deliveries by Hazlewood, but responds with three consecutive boundaries over the infielders. Not the cleanest hitting, but brave and committed. Getting his rewards, onto 35*(14).

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Jaiswal hasn't had the most explosive IPL thus far, striking under 140, but he's trying to put a fix to that. A couple of boundaries, and then another HUGE six, front leg cleared and ball out of the ground.

26-0 after 2.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Hello! What a shot that is to get things going! Just a length ball from Bhuvi, and Jaiswal nonchalantly swats it away for a towering six.

Real signal of intent.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Just 8 off the last over, impossible to get Archer away for anything more than a solitary boundary of a slower ball.

Jofra finishes with figures of 1-33, Kohli top scores with 70.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Sandeep Sharma gets hit again, four wides and a couple of boundaries. The tactic just about working, but not great from Sandeep again.

197-4 now, and the last over with Jofra Archer…

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Patidar in and out! Sandeep with a double-strike in this over. Just a bit wafty from the RCB captain and he's out cheaply.

Jitesh with a first-ball four. 167-4 with 3 overs left to play. Interesting Romario Shepherd still in the hut.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Wickets in back-to-back overs! Very similar, Padikkal tries to clear the off-side, but undone by a knuckleball. Loops kindly to Nitish again, but he manages to lose it in the lights. Nearly drops it several times, but somehow miraculously rescues the situation.

DDP out after a well-made 50(27). Patidar joins Tim David, who was roughed up by a couple of Jofra Archer bouncers last over.

161-3 with 3.5 overs to go.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: There's the wicket! Archer should have been brought a couple of overs ago, but he makes an impact once he is.

Kohli tries to drive over the ring on the off-side but gets none of it, loops for an easy grab at extra cover. Departs after a good 70(42).

RR conceded 37 off the two overs prior to this, but at least they have Kohli after that misstep. 156-2 in 15.1.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Not hanging around, Padikkal, knows that he has to be the aggressor here with batting left in the tank. Couple of sixes and RCB motiring through these middle overs. All these runs will be important come the chase.

148-1 after 14.4.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: A pair of boundaries and Kohli reaches yet another half-century this season! He has looked in complete control and not fallen into a shell, but still plenty to do at 109-1 with 8 overs left in the innings.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Kohli keeping the scoring going even after the Salt wicket, and RCB now 83-1 after 10 overs. They know they can't afford to slow down too much, nor lose too. many wickets. Really finely balanced stage of the game.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score: Big wicket right after the powerplay! Salt looks to slog Hasaranga, but can only top edge it. Hetmyer settles for a simple catch.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Score 2025: RR bleeding runs a touch here, no sixes but boundaries galore. Three fours, two from Salt and one from Kohli, and Deshpande's first over goes for plenty.

51-0 after 5.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: A little streaky to start with, but a pull shot off Archer that Kohli will be very happy with that races to the fence.

28-0 after 3.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: Chance put down! And you think the RR captain had to take that. He did have to run to his right at mid-off, but he never quite got stable for what was ultimately nto as tough a chance as he made it look. Never quite got it, and it bobbles out on elbow impact.

RR could do with fewer mistakes in the field.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: Straight heat from Archer! Maybe a little too short, bounces well over Kohli and keeps carrying over Jurel's head. Nowhere close, is the keeper.

Next ball, much better, around shoulder high, and Kohli can only edge it. It flashes off a thick edge and loops over the lone slip, practically standing on the 30-yard ring. Still goes over him. Incredible stuff.

Fiery first over, but 11 off it. What a start.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: An English battle with the new ball, Jofra Archer against Phil Salt. Jofra starts with a wide, but dials it in. Strings together three dot balls, plenty of pace and bounce in this wicket.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: One change for RR as the extra seamer comes in for Theekshana.

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

Bench: Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yudhvir Singh, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Kunal Singh Rathore

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: No changes for RCB.

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

Bench: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salam, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: It's RR captain Riyan Parag that calls right, and no hesitance in asking Rajat Patidar's team to bat first. RR will be happy to have that small advantage.

No changes for RCB, but Farooqi in for Theekshana for RR.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: A win today will take RCB to 12 points, level with Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals. They have a little bit of work to do to catch up with the net run-rate both teams possess, but DC are certainly within touching distance.

Remember: RCB face DC on Sunday. Big big match.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: Not too far away from when Riyan Parag and Rajat Patidar will meet in the middle for the flip of the coin. Even if it's not as high-scoring as in the past, Chinnaswamy remains a chasing-friendly pitch, all three matches having been won by the team batting second, and with plenty of time to spare on each occasion. Expect that to be the call once again, given this track record

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: With Samson out injured, a teenaged opening partner, and a fragile middle order, Yashasvi Jaiswal is suddenly the senior batter at Rajasthan Royals. It's a big ask of someone who is still a young player, but this second half of the season could be invaluable to him as he tries to develop into a true leader.

Jaiswal has shown plenty of quality, unsurprisingly, but he will know he needs to show just that much more initiative and an ability to take his team home, something he wasn't able to do against either DC or LSG.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: Devdutt Padikkal has been a little in and out of the scheme of things for RCB this season, blowing hot and cold in terms of his form thus far this season. However, a fine performance in which he scored a quick 61 against Punjab will surely be enough to ensure the tall lefty secures his spot, already having batted well against his former team RR earlier this season.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: While RR's failure to chase down 9 against both DC and LSG in the last over has been well-documented, with Shimron Hetmyer and Dhruv Jurel coming in for plenty of criticism, their struggles start with the bowling. While the team in backing the crafty Sandeep Sharma at the death, he has conceded 46 runs the last two times he has bowled the 20th — 19 against DC, and a mammoth 27 against LSG.

While Sandeep is clever and crafty, he is also sort of hit-me when his slower-ball bouncer variations don't work out. He has to trust his control with yorkers a little more, and be more willing to trust his on-speed deliveries as well. With finishes like those, he undoes the good work he typically provides through the innings.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: One reason RCB might have struggled at home so far is because this has been a pretty atypical Chinnaswamy wicket. Associated with runs en masse due to small dimensions, high altitude, and flat wickets, the two completed games thus far this season have seen first innings scores in the 160s. Add to this RCB's horrible first innings in the rain-shortened match vs PBKS, rescued only by some Tim David carnage, and this is definitely a wicket that is more bowler friendly than most expected it to be. Will things change in the second half of the season, or more of the same from a new-look Chinnaswamy?

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: The really positive sign for RCB is that they have been able to rely on contributions from across their lineup so far this season. Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are making their experience at this level count, Yash Dayal is the perfect third-fiddle seamer, Krunal Pandya offers control, and Suyash Sharma is growing in confidence visibly match by match. At this crucial juncture of the season, having the bowling fall into a nice understanding with one another will provide a lot of confidence to RCB fans about keeping the remainder of this season straightforward and uncomplicated.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: Even at 36 years old, Virat Kohli continues to be the heartbeat of the RCB team. After his Orange Cap campaign last year, he intends to be in the mix this year as well. He hasn't performed in Bangalore quite yet, with a handful of quiet outings, so he is due a big score in a city he considers to be his second home. He will have the early challenge of contending with Jofra Archer, but he did so with aplomb in Jaipur: can he repeat the trick at the Chinnaswamy?

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: What this does mean, however, is that Vaibhav Suryavanshi is in line to get another chance to open the batting, with no selection headaches for Rahul Dravid and company. Suryavanshi deliveried on his promise even at just the age of 14, showing he has the power and temperament for this level with a breezy 34(20) which included three sixes.

A chance to impress in front of many eyes in Bangalore.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: Sanju Samson will not feature for RR in Bangalore, not having been cleared by team doctors to be a part of the travelling squad, Rahul Dravid confirmed. Samson's injury was in many ways a turning point for this team: he pulled his side during the run-chase against DC, after which the RR innings lost a lot of its steam, and is now set to be sidelined for two games because of it.

A real shame for RR and their captain, who really seemed to be finding his touch after a pretty quiet start to the season by his standards.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: On the other side of the eight ball are Royal Challengers Bengaluru, five wins from their eight games and only a couple of good wins away from ensuring they will participate in the playoffs. For RCB, this potential win is most important to try and get the winless record at home off their back, as well as setting themselves up well for a huge match in Delhi on Sunday, which could go a long way to determining the first qualifier.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: It's been a season to forget for the Rajasthan faithful so far. Provided two golden chances to produce wins that would have brought them back into the tournament, RR managed to throw away victories in both. First the super over loss to DC, then an equally gut-wrenching failure to see it home against LSG.

Suddenly, RR are 2-6 with their season on the line. It will need a miracle from here, and it will have to start in Bangalore.

RCB vs RR IPL Live Updates 2025: The IPL season keeps rolling as the business end of the tournament rapidly approaches. Royal Challengers Bengaluru are set for a rematch against Rajasthan Royals, with the visiting team looking to end a four-match losing slump, while RCB are still looking for their first win at home.

All updates from this crucial encounter on different ends of the table, coming right up.