Earlier, today RR won the toss,and elected to bat first. Robin Uthappa and allrounder Ben Stokes opened for them.While the two only managed to score five runs from the first two overs, Uthappa and RR shifted gears in the third over as he hit four fours off Washington Sundar.
RR though brought up their fifty in the final over of the powerplay,but they also lost Stokes in the same over.

Meanwhile, Uthappa, completed 4500 IPL runs, also added two more fours to his account in the seventh over.RCB got their breakthrough twice in the eighth over by Yuzvendra Chahal. First, he had Uthappa caught at the deep mid-wicket after the right hander scored 41 off 22 balls, and then, got the wicket of Sanju Samson.

Jos Buttler and Steve Smith then joined forces and had a rebuilding job at their hands. Buttler was quick to get off the blocks as he moved to 17 off 13, with a four and a six. Meanwhile, Smith too kept the scoreboard ticking as he and Buttler completed the fifty-run stand in the 15th over, with Smith hitting two fours in the over.Butler lost his wicket as Chris Morris got his second wicket ,but Smith went on to score runs and brought of his fifty of thirty balls in the 18th over.Morris, then added two more wickets to his account in the final over and RR posted 177/6 on the board.
With the target of 178 runs to win, RCB made a watchful start before Aaron Finch took on Jofra Archer in the third over, hitting him for two sixes.However, Finch got out in the next over off Shreyas Gopal as RR got their first breakthrough.

Virat Kohli joined Devdutt Padikkal in the middle and the two started to make a partnership.The Padikkal-Kohli duo completed the fifty-run stand after Kohli hit a six off Shreyas Gopal in the tenth over.
However, RCB lost Padikkal and Kohli on successive deliveries. Rahul Tewatia took a stunning catch to get rid of kohli who was batting at 43.RCB were 104/3 after 14 overs and needed 75 runs in the last six overs to cross the finish line. The next four overs saw RCB score 39 runs, with AB de Villiers hitting two sixes and a four to move to 28 off 16 balls.RCB had to score 35 runs off the last two overs and ABD did it for RCB.He hammered three sixes on the first three balls – first over covers, second over long-on and third over deep backward square. Gurkeerat Singh Mann also hit a four as RCB scored 25 in the over to bring down the target to 10 from last over.RCB scored those 10 runs in 4 deliveries as ABD finished the game with six and in that process, completed his match-winning fifty. It was a stunning performance by Ab de Villiers and a little experimenting in the end costed heavy on the Royals.

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