Virat Kohli and Phil Salt’s fifties guide RCB to comfortable 9-wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru proved to be too good for the Rajasthan Royals as they easily chased down the target of 174 set by the latter thanks to dual fifties from Salt and Kohli

Openers Virat Kohli and Phil Salt slammed brisk half-centuries and shared a 92-run partnership to guide Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) to a 9-wicket win against hosts Rajasthan Royals (RR) in IPL 2025 match on Sunday.

Salt smashed 65 off 33 deliveries, his highest score this season, while Kohli struck an unbeaten 62 off 45 deliveries as RCB easily chased down RR’s target of 174 with 15 balls to spare. One-down Devdutt Padikkal also played a decent unbeaten knock of 40 runs in the big win.

Earlier, RR opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 75 off 47 deliveries, his second half-century of the season, and shared 2 fruitful partnerships with skipper Sanju Samson and Riyan Parag.

Jaiswal shared an opening-wicket stand of 49 with Samson (15) and a 56-run partnership with Parag (30) to lead RR’s charge.

But it was not enough on the day as RR, clearly off-colour on the field with several dropped catches, lost the plot.

The comfortable victory saw RCB move to the third place on the table with 8 points while the Rajasthan-based franchise sit on the seventh spot with 4 points.

The Bengaluru-based franchise will be looking to continue this form when they face-off against the Punjab Kings on April 18 while on the other hand, RR will be looking to bounce back to winning ways in their next match of the season which will be against the Delhi Capitals on April 16.

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