IPL 2026 Match 16: Today’s match was played between the Rajasthan Royals and the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Rajasthan Royals won the match by 6 wickets, with 12 balls to spare. With this victory, RR remains unbeaten this season.
The match was played at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati. RCB set a target of 202 runs, which RR successfully chased down in just 18 overs.
In this match, Rajasthan Royals secured an effortless victory thanks to brilliant batting by Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored 78 runs off 26 balls, hitting 4 fours and 7 sixes, while Dhruv Jurel made 81 runs off 43 balls, including 8 fours and 3 sixes. Both players played match-winning innings and led RR to victory.
With this win, the Rajasthan Royals remain unbeaten in the season so far. The teams they have defeated include CSK, GT, MI, and now RCB. RR has won all these matches by convincing margins.
RCB has played three matches this season. They won two matches, and this is their first defeat of the season.
Rajat Patidar (captain), Virat Kohli, and Venkatesh Iyer put up decent scores. Among them, captain Rajat Patidar was the top scorer with 63 runs off 40 balls, including 4 fours and 6 sixes.
Virat Kohli scored 32 runs off 16 balls, hitting 7 fours. Romario Shepherd added 22 runs, while Venkatesh Iyer remained not out on 29 runs for the team. Apart from these players, the rest of the batting lineup did not perform well.
In this match, several players failed to perform well with the bat. Phil Salt was dismissed for a duck, followed by Devdutt Padikkal, who scored 14 runs. Krunal Pandya managed just 1 run, while Jitesh Sharma scored 5 runs.
Tim David contributed 22 runs, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar remained not out on 9 runs. Overall, more than five players failed to deliver with the bat in this match.
From RR’s side, just two players did almost 80% of the job in winning the match—Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Dhruv Jurel. Dhruv Jurel scored 81 runs off 43 balls, hitting 8 fours and 3 sixes, while Vaibhav Sooryavanshi made 78 runs off 26 balls, including 8 fours and 7 sixes.
Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 13 runs, while Shimron Hetmyer was dismissed for a duck. Riyan Parag (captain) managed just 3 runs. In the end, Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten by 24 runs, as the Rajasthan Royals secured the match by 4 wickets, successfully chasing the target of 202 runs in just 18 overs.
Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubham Dubey, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag (c), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande.
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Philip Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubham Dubey, Nitish Rana, Riyan Parag (c), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande
