RAJASTHAN ROYALS CAPTAIN STEVEN SMITH WON A TOSS AND OPTED TP BOWL FIRST.

AGAIN IN FIRST OVER,JOFRA STRIKES! FOR RR.HE GETS MANDEEP at duck.MANDEEP JUST in hope to negotiate gets shoulder of bat and goes to the STOKES HAND.JUST ONE RUN IN A OVER.NEXT OVER,GAYLE START THE INNING BY FOUR!.3 WIDES IN AARON OVER.AT NEXT,RAHUL PUNCHES IT IN POINT GETS FOUR! KXIP WERE 14/1 in 3 Overs.


Chris Gayle took up some kind of hobby in the fourth over after Riyan Parag couldn't clutch a catch in the profound off Varun Aaron's bowling. The left-hander promptly made RR pay for equivalent to he pounded a six and two fours in the fifth over bowled by Kartik Tyagi.Rahul joined the gathering as he creamed a six and a four in the last over of the powerplay as he and Gayle finished a fifty-run remain to take KXIP to 53/1 in the powerplay. 


Gayle tonked his third six of the match in the following over and added a four to his record in the eighth over. Rahul Tewatia was brought into the assault in the ninth over and he made a decent beginning, surrendering only two runs in his first finished. Rahul at that point hit a six in the following over as KXIP moved to 81/1 after the midway phase of their innings. 


Gayle at that point raised his second progressive fifty and third of the period in the eleventh over. Two or three overs later, KXIP moved past hundred as Gayle and Rahul finished a century stand. RR at that point broke the Gayle-Rahul association after Ben Stokes excused the KXIP captain for 46 in the fifteenth over.HE WAS NOT LOOKING GOOD AS ALWAYS.RR GET THE BIG WICKET! PUNJAB LOSE HIS SKIPPER.KXIP WERE 123/2 in 15 Overs with GAYLE 70 runs in 47 balls.


Nicholas Pooran declared his appearance in some style as the left-hander pounded three sixes in the initial nine balls he confronted. In any case, he got out in the eighteenth over after Tewatia took a fine catch close to the square-leg limit rope.POORAN DEPARTS 22 RUNS in 10 balls.BIG WICKET FOR RR!



Gayle at that point finished 1000 sixes in the T20 design and was in with an opportunity to score up his seventh IPL hundred, yet an Archer conveyance ricocheted onto the stumps from his cushions and he got out for 99 preceding & misses century by jusT 1 Runs. AT END KXIP posted 185/4 on the board.

AS CHASE BEGIN,BEN STOKES AND UTHAPPA START THE INNING.FOR KXIP, ARSHDEEP SINGH WILL START THE ATTACK.


AT FIRST OVER, STOKES HITS FOUR,! WITH COUPLE OF TWO.HE charges down early and know the length and hit for four on mid -on.ARSHDEEP CONCEDES NINE FROM IT.AT NEXT SHAMI CAME ATTACK,he concedes 12 runs with one four and SIX! With special pull shot by Uthappa.RR WERE FLIERY START.RR 23/0 IN 2 OVERS.


RR were looking flying so far as Ben Stokes slice free to raise the quickest fifty for any group in the season. The left-hander, then, zoomed past fifty of every 24 balls, hitting 6 fours and 3 sixes with UHAPPA PLAYING SUPPORTIVE ROLE.BUT AT JUST END OF POWERPLAY BEFORE,Stokes 50(26) got out off Chris Jordan's bowling.BIG RELIEF FOR PUNJAB!.RR 66/1 in 6  overs.


Sanju Samson supplanted Stokes in the center. While KXIP yielded 13 in the following two overs, Samson creamed a four and two sixes over the ninth and tenth over to take RR past 100. While RR lost Uthappa at 30  in the eleventh over, they kept on scoring at an energetic movement as Samson proceeded with his joyful ways with the bat. Throughout the following three overs, Samson hit two fours and a six while Smith hit two fours as RR zoomed past 140 after 14 overs. 


Sanju was near the very edge of his fourth fifty of the period as the fifteenth over yet couldn't arrive at the milestone following a splendid direct hit from J Suchith. But gets UNLUCKY RUNOUT! HE DEPARTS FOR 48 RUNS.


RR required 40 runs off the last five overs to seal a success and they scored 29 of those in the following two overs. To begin with, Buttler creamed a six on the last ball sixteenth over to assist his with siding score 10 from that over and afterward he and Smith hit four overs in the following over to take RR past 170. 


The pair of Smith 31(20) and Buttler22(11) finished off the match in the eighteenth over as RR finished a fine run-pursue for the second time in succession and kept their season finisher trusts alive.RR CLINCH BIG VICTORY OVER PUNJAB AND ENDS PUNJAB WINNING STREAK.