3 Memorable clashes between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals at the Chinnaswamy Stadium

Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Rajasthan Royal after a gap of 2 years at home on Sunday afternoon. This promises to be an exciting encounter as both the teams have won a game each and have the right momentum going into this game.

Both the teams are neck and neck when it comes to head to head record. They have clashed against each other in 15 IPL games out of which RCB have won eight games, while Rajasthan Royals have won seven games.

However, at the Chinnaswamy stadium, Rajasthan Royals have the upper hand winning three out of the five games played between both the teams.

Let us look at three memorable clashes between both the teams at the Chinnaswamy stadium.

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#3 Anil Kumble and Praveen Kumar decimate Rajasthan Royals at home- 2010

Anil Kumble won the toss and elected to field first on a slow surface. Rajasthan got off to a slow start thanks to some tight bowling by the likes of Dale Steyn, Praveen Kumar and Jacques Kallis.

Wickets kept tumbling at regular intervals and the innings run-rate was under six. Kallis provided the initial breakthroughs by picking up the wickets of Naman Ojha (16) and Abhishek Jhunjhunwala (5).

There was no respite for Rajasthan Royals as Kumble with his nagging line and length kept the run-scoring in check.

He removed the dangerous Michael Lumb (10), who was stumped behind the wicket by Mark Boucher. Damien Martyn and Yusuf Pathan struck around for a while but couldn’t get going as both were dismissed with the team score under 90.

In the 17th over, Praveen Kumar picked up the wickets of Martyn, Sumit Narwal and Paras Dogra of three successive deliveries to complete a famous hat-trick.

He ended up with figures of 3-18 in his 4 overs. Anil Kumble cleaned up the tail, which included the opposition captain Shane Warne and his bowling figures read 3-9 of 3.5 overs.

Rajasthan Royals were dismissed for a poultry score of 92/10 with Yusuf Pathan (26) being the top scorer.

In reply, the openers Manish Pandey (42*) and Jacques Kallis (44*) chased the target of 93 in 10.4 overs.

RCB won the game by 10 wickets with 56 balls remaining and for his all-round effort with both bat and ball Kallis was awarded Man of the Match.

#2 Ajinkya Rahane’s masterful 103* powers Rajasthan to an easy win – 2012

Rahane scored a fantastic hundred

Rahul Dravid won the toss and elected to bat first on a batting pitch. He opened the innings with Ajinkya Rahane and got the team off to a slow but steady start.

Dravid was stumped for 25 of the bowling of Dan Vettori in the 11th over and Rajasthan Royals were 62/1.

Owais Shah walked out to the crease to partner Rahane and what followed next was some brilliant hitting by both the batsman.

Shah smashed Chris Gayle for two sixes and a boundary in the 16th over and followed it up by three sixes and a four of Vinay Kumar in the 17th over. Shah reached his 50 in 19 balls, which was his fastest in his IPL career.

Rahane paced his innings beautifully. His innings comprised of orthodox cricketing shots. He first hit Sreenath Aravind for six fours in the 15th over and then followed it up a Six and a Four of Muttiah Muralitharan in the 18th over, taking his personal score to 92 off 54 balls.

The pair added 121 runs for the second wicket in just 50 balls. Rahane completed his century in the last over by smashing a boundary of Vinay Kumar.

Rajasthan Royals posted a competitive total of 195/2 in their 20 overs.

In reply, RCB got off to a quick start thanks to some attacking stroke-play by Mayank Agarwal.

But this didn’t last long as he and Chris Gayle were dismissed by Pankaj Singh in the fifth over.

Virat Kohli stroked a couple of boundaries before he was bowled by Siddarth Trivedi. The medium pacer further picked up the wickets of AB De Villiers, Saurabh Tiwary and Daniel Vettori to end up with figures of 4-25 in his four overs.

In the end, RCB were all out for 136 in the last over, handing over a 59-run win for Rajasthan Royals.

For his magnificent 103* of 60 deliveries, Rahane was awarded Man of the Match.

#1 Steve Smith and James Faulkner steal the game from RCB in a humdinger – 2014

Faulkner and Smith took the game away from RCB

Electing to bat first on a batting strip, RCB lost their captain Kohli in the third over. Gayle didn’t last long as he was dismissed for 19 of the bowling of Pravin Tambe.

Rahul Tewatia dismissed Vijay Zol for 16 and Bangalore were struggling at 40-3 in 8.1 overs.

However, Yuvraj Singh and De Villiers had other ideas. They took the attack to the opposition and upped the run-rate.

The pair added 132 runs in 65 balls, which took the wind out of the Rajasthan bowlers. Yuvraj smashed his way to a 38-ball 83, which comprised of seven boundaries and seven maximums.

While De Villiers smashed 58 runs off just 32 balls, his innings comprised of one boundary and five sixes. This assault propelled RCB’s score to 190/5 in 20 overs.

In reply, openers Karun Nair and Rahane got the team off to a brisk start scoring at nearly eight an over. Leggie Yuzvendra Chahal provided the initial break-through picking up the wicket of Rahane for 24.

Yuvraj was bought into the attack and he picked up the wickets of Shane Watson and Stuart Binny in the ninth over. He continued his golden run with the ball by picking up the wickets of Sanju Samson (11th over) and Nair (14th over).

Yuvi with his four-wicket haul broke the back of Rajasthan Royals and they were facing a daunting task ahead with 83 runs required off six overs.

Steve Smith and James Faulker didn’t give up as they charged against RCB bowlers. The Bangalore franchise first smashed Varun Aaron for 14 runs in the 15th over and followed it up by scoring 21 runs off Mitchell Starc in the 17th over.

With 44 to win off 18 balls, they clobbered Ashok Dinda for 23 runs of the 18th over which included two sixes and two fours in the over. Aaron was the given the ball to bowl the penultimate over with 21 runs in the bank.

However, Faulker and Smith finished off the game in the very over by scoring the required runs, with the Australian all-rounder in particular hit two sixes and a four to finish of a remarkable victory for Rajasthan Royals.

Kohli and his men were distraught as they saw a game go by, which they had in control for the most part of the match.

For his 17-ball 41 with the bat and 1-42 with the ball, Faulkner was awarded Man of the Match.

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