Rajasthan Royals succumbed to an impressive bowling display by Royal Challengers Bangalore as they were shot out for just 117 in their IPL match here today.
Put into bat, the Rahul Dravid-led team suffered a batting collapse as they were all out for their lowest total in this IPL season in 19.4 overs in the face of a brilliant bowling performance by the home side on a relatively good batting wicket at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Vinay Kumar continued with his bowling form by picking up three wickets for 18 runs. His pace-bowling colleague R P Singh joined the party with figures of three for 13 while Ravi Rampaul scalped two wickets for 19 runs. Jaydev Unadkat and Murali Kartik bagged one wicket each.
The Royals had the worst possible start as opener Shane Watson (6) and Ajinkya Rahane (14) were sent packing with just 26 runs on the board. Dravid (35 off 31 balls), however, steadied the innings with Stuart Binny (33 off 20 balls) with a 40-run stand for the third wicket from 9.5 overs.
The visitors, however, failed to maintain as they suffered a batting collapse in the second part of their innings. The visitors lost wickets in quick succession and from 97 for three in the 15th over, they were reduced 112 for eight in 18 overs and then were all out for 117 in 19.4 overs.
The Royals suffered a jolt when Dravid could not time a lofted shot and was holed out to Ravi Rampaul at long on in the 15th over. Dravid hit five boundaries in his 31-ball knock and the Royals were 97 for four when he was out.
Dravid's wicket triggered a batting collapse as Hodge (13 off 17 balls) edged one to wicket-keeper Arun Karthik off Vinay Kumar soon after.
James Faulkner (3), Dishant Yagnik (5), S Sreesanth (0), Shaun Tait (1) and Siddharth Trivedi (3) could not do much as RP Singh and Vinay Kumar got wickets in quick succession.
