RR vs RCB - M40 Report & Stats: IPL 2013

Match Report:

Rajasthan Royals maintained their unbeaten record at home with a thrilling four-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. Sanju Samson played an incredible innings of 63 to lead in RR’s successful chase of RCB's 171.

Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli before the toss during match 40 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League ( IPL) 2013 between The Rajasthan Royals and the Royal Challengers Bangalore held at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on the 29th April 2013

Chasing a stiff 172 for victory, RR were lucky as Virat Kohli spilled Rahul Dravid off the very first ball of the run-chase. Dravid made the most of it hitting Ravi Rampaul for two boundaries. Rampaul got the first wicket as Ajinkya Rahane (2) top edged a pull to be caught at fine leg. 

Sanju Samson, promoted up the order smashed Vinay Kumar for consecutive boundaries. Moises Henriques then deceived Dravid with a slower delivery and broke the stumps behind him.

Samson continued the assault with consecutive sixes off Mural Kartik in the 8th over. At the halfway stage, RR were 80 for 2, still requiring 92 runs. RR started to accelerate in the 13th over with two boundaries off RP Singh as Samson brought up his fifty.

Rampaul provided the breakthrough having Samson (63) caught by Kartik leaving RR needing 52 off 30 balls. Rampaul's 17th over was taken apart for 17 runs as Brad Hodge launched him for two sixes and helped his team inch closer to the target. Watson (41) fell to RP Singh and with RR needing six from the last over, they lost Hodge (32) and Owais Shah (1). Stuart Binny (6) hit a four to see RR through with a ball left.

Earlier RR won the toss and put RCB in. Chris Gayle got RCB off to a stunning start with three boundaries in the first over bowled by Ajit Chandila. Gayle looking in ominous touch and smashed S Sreesanth for two boundaries before launching him for a six. Watson got the big wicket of Gayle (34) having him caught behind. RCB were 55 for one from their power play overs. RCB lost the other opener, Abhinav Mukund in the eighth over when Siddharth Trivedi breached through his defences and broke the stumps. At the halfway stage, RCB were 75 for 2. 

Sreesanth sent back AB de Villiers (21) caught on the ropes by James Faulkner in the 12th over. Kohli then hit a couple of boundaries off Trivedi. Moises Henriques hit Faulkner for a six in the 16th over before the bowler got the better of Kohli (32) later in the same over. Henriques (22) continued the assault with two boundaries off Sreesanth's 17th over before being run out by Faulkner. Though RCB lost Ravi Rampaul in the 19th over, Vinay Kumar (22*) helped finish the innings on a high, dispatching Faulkner for three sixes to help RCB to 171 for 6. 

Sanju Samson bagged the man of the match award during match 40 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League ( IPL) 2013 between The Rajasthan Royals and the Royal Challengers Bangalore held at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on the 29th April 2013

Man-of-the-Match: Sanju Samson 

Brief Scores: Royal Challengers Bangalore 171 for 6 (Chris Gayle 34, Shane Watson 3-22) lost to Rajasthan Royals 173 for 6 (Sanju Samson 63, Ravi Rampaul 2-28) by 4 wickets. 

Sanju Samson bagged the Star Plus Nayi Soch award during match 40 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League ( IPL) 2013 between The Rajasthan Royals and the Royal Challengers Bangalore held at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on the 29th April 2013

Stats Highlights:

2: Number of instances of one bowler from each side bowling a wicket-maiden in IPL 2013 (bowlers-Sreesanth and Ravi Rampaul). Sreesanth and Praveen Kumar (Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab at Jaipur) provided the other such instance.

9: Number of players to aggregate 2000 runs in IPL, with Virat Kohli being the latest entrant to this exclusive club.

18: Years 169 days – Sanju Samson’s age – youngest to score a fifty in IPL. The previous record was held by Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Sreevats Goswami, who scored a fifty at the age of 19 years 1 day.

100: Percent – Royal Challengers Bangalore’s win-loss record in IPL 2013- win in all 6 home games and loss in all four away games. Rajasthan Royals have also won all their five home games this season.

366.66: R Vinay Kumar’s strike-rate in the match- 22* off 6 balls with 3 sixes. This is the second highest strike-rate in an innings of 5 balls or more in IPL 2013, after AB de Villiers’ 387.50 (31 off 8 balls) against Pune Warriors India at Bengaluru.

Vinay Kumar won the maximum sixes award during match 40 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League ( IPL) 2013 between The Rajasthan Royals and the Royal Challengers Bangalore held at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on the 29th April 2013

Presentation:

Kohli: "Another loss unfortunately. We were 10-15 runs short. Rajasthan batted really well. I got out at the wrong time, one batsman who could have added another 20-30 runs could have changed things. We got really excited looking at the wicket, didn't bowl at a good length. We bowled really short initially and gave many boundaries."

Dravid: "We were on the back foot in the first six overs, with Gayle going the way he did. The way we batted in the first six, and the way Sanju batted, we just seemed in control right through. With 13 in two overs, I thought it was going to comfortable. We need to focus a game at a time. Lot of cricket left to be played."

Sanju Samson is Man of the Match, what a moment for him: "I would like to thank my family, my team. I was prepared for it and it's my day. I was trying to get maximum runs in the Powerplay." A man of few words.

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