New Delhi: Royal Challengers Bengaluru managed to absorb the pressure they were put under by Rajasthan Royals while defending their 206-run target to win by 11 runs in an IPL 2025 game on Thursday.

Virat Kohli (70 off 42 balls) and Devdutt Padikkal (50 off 27) had helped the home side put on 205/5 but had it not been for Josh Hazlewood’s 4/33 Rajasthan would have reached their target.

But the Australian pacer struck timely blows that restricted the Royals 194/9 despite Yashasvi Jaiswal scoring a 19-ball 49 and Dhruv Jurel’s 34-ball 47.

It was Rajasthan’s fifth straight loss in the tournament that kept them at the eighth spot with four points in nine games.

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