PBKS vs RR Highlights, IPL 2022: RR beat PBKS by six wickets

PBKS vs RR IPL: RR beat PBKS by 6 wickets

Rajasthan Royals have their first win while chasing and their first win in three games. Padikkal's inability to get going brought some nervousness in the chase but Hetmyer was as effective as ever. This trend of winning a match and then losing one is not helping Punjab Kings at all. 

PBKS vs RR IPL 2022: SIX! Scores level!

No extraordinary defences happening when Hetmyer is around. The first ball is wide and the second is sent soaring over long-on for a maximum. 

IPL 2022 Live: RR need 8 to win off the last over. 

Rahul Chahar is the bowler. We saw Adam Milne defending 9 off the last over, will a repeat of that happen here? 

IPL Live Score: OUT! 

That's it for Padikkal's struggles. The brilliant Arshdeep Singh has got his second. A wide delivery outside off, probably one of the worst he has bowled, and he gets a wicket off that one. Padikkal swings for the offside, and hits it straight to Agarwal. 

Padikkal c Agarwal b Arshdeep 31 (32), RR 182/4 in 18.5 overs, need 8 to win off 7 balls

PBKS vs RR Live Score: 16 off the 18th over!

RR end 11 to win off the last two overs. That over may have just decided this game. Rabada has been hit for two fours and a six and his spell ends with figures of 1/50. 

PBKS vs RR: FOUR! 

And finally Padikkal gets it away. Short from Rabada and Padikkal pulls away for his second ball of the innings. RR have moved to 167/3, need 21 to win off 17. 

IPL 2022 Live Score: Padikkal struggling

Devdutt Padikkal has simply not been able to get it away so far. He has scored just 19 runs in 23 balls. The pressure thats builtup almost leads to a disastrous run out as Hetmyer comes halfway down to the pitch to run a second off the last ball of the 16th over. Replays show that he had managed to make it. Padikkal needs to get a move on. 

Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals: OUT! The Jaiswal show ends

There is the big wicket. Length delivery from Arshdeep outside off, Jaiswal goes down the ground but can't really go past Livingstone at the long on boundary. The partnership between Jaiswal and Padikkal ends on 56 off 37 balls, most of which was scored by the former.  

Jaiswal c Livingstone b Arshdeep 68 (41), RR 141/3 in 14.2 overs

PBKS vs RR IPL: Innovation from Jaiswal

Yashasvi Jaiswal is putting on a show here. He scoops Rishi Dhawan over the keeper's head for four off the fifth ball of the 13th and then drives a full delivery through covers. He had hit a four off the first ball of the over as well and so 14 have come off it. RR 127/2 in 13, need 63 to win from 42 balls. 

PBKS vs RR IPL 2022: Half century for Jaiswal!

What a comeback this has been for the youngster. It has come in just 33 balls. He has led this aggressive approach that RR have shown ever since they came out for this chase. 

IPL 2022 Live: Jaiswal closing in on a fifty

He ended the drought of boundaries with back to back fours off the first two balls of the 11th over. Jaiswal has been helped by the fact that Sandeep Sharma has strayed wide on a number of occassions today. 

IPL Live Score: 10 overs gone

RR are 95/2. They need 95 to to win off the last 10 overs. Nice little symmetry made there. There have been no boundaries in the last two overs since Samson fell and so RR would be looking to get a few here.  

PBKS vs RR Live Score: OUT! Samson falls. 

The Dhawans combine to dismiss Samson. Length ball outside off from Rishi Dhawan, Samson skies a cut. Shikhar Dhawan goes backtracking from point before settling underneath it and taking a sharp catch.  

Samson c S Dhawan b R Dhawan 23 (12), RR 86/2 in 8.1 overs

PBKS vs RR: RR 85/1 in 8 overs

Jaiswal ends the eighth with a six. The partnership between him and Samson is now on 39 off 24 balls and RR need 105 to win off 72 balls. Their required run rate is 8.75 but that doesn't matter for now because their current run rate is 10.62. 

IPL 2022 Live Score: 67 runs from the powerplay!

Well this has been some start from RR. Jaiswal is on 21 off 12 while Samson has scored five runs in the two balls he faced thus far. 

Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals: OUT! Buttler goes after smashing Rabada for 20 

20 runs and out! What a crazy over this is. Wide yorker that Buttler tries to scoop, miscues the shot completely and somehow sends it flat to short third man.  The five balls before this had gone 6, 4, 4, 2, 4. 

Buttler c Rajapaksa b Rabada 30 (16), RR 46/1 in 4 overs

PBKS vs RR Score: SIX! Monster from Buttler!

Length ball from Rabada, Buttler gets a good base with both feet planted and absolutely launches that over square leg. That has gone high into the sky and settles just below the scorecard. 

PBKS vs RR IPL: 14 runs off the first over

Sandeep Sharma provides width and Jaiswal obliges. He hits a four off the third ball, a six off the next and ends the over with another four. 

PBKS vs RR IPL 2022: Jonny Bairstow

“I got some low scores but it happens in T20s, I was batting in different position. Happy to be scoring again. It's okay (the pitch) it's not the best wicket you'll see here but you have to bowl well. You've to protect the short side. It's too hot for me, part and parcel of it. Jitesh is an exceptional player, picking a low full toss for a 100 metres is something we all want to do. It's great to have him low down the order. If we bowl well, we have a chance. Jos will be a key wicket.”

IPL 2022 Live: Punjab Kings 189/5 in 20 overs

A good total in the end for Punjab Kings, now they just need to find a way to defend it against a team that have got almost as many big hitters as they do. The partnership between Livingstone and Jitesh produced 50 ruins in just 26 balls. 

IPL Live Score: 6, 4, 4 in the final over

The first three balls of the final over are sent to the boundary by Jitesh Sharma who has raced to 38 off 18 balls. He is only able to take a single off the fourth and screams in agony. 

PBKS vs RR Live Score: GONE!

And Prasidh Krishna now gets the big man. He has been bowling wide throughout the over and Livingstone expected more. He started to move and it was too late before he realised that Prasidh has sent in a yorker right on the base of middle stump. 

Livingstone b Prasidh Krishna 21 (15), PBKS 169/5 in 18.5 overs

Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals: FOUR! What a shot from Livingstone

Prasidh Krishna sends the fourth ball of the 19th wide outside off, as he has been doing throughout the over and Livingstone goes all the way accross and scoops it over his shoulder. 

Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals: 15 runs from the 17th!

That would've been a good over had it not been for Prasidh Krishna overstepping in the fourth delivery. Jitesh Sharma hits the resulting free hit and the next delivery for boundaries and then takes a single to finish the over. 

PBKS vs RR Score: Into the last 4 overs

Is a Livingstone show loading? He ended the 16th over with a six down the ground. They need a big finish here as their total for now far away from is far away from being competitive. PBKS 132/4 in 16 overs

PBKS vs RR IPL: GONE! And now Chahal gets Bairstow!

RR appeal for LBW and the umpire raises his finger. Bairstow takes the review and the replays show that the umpire's call will be upheld. The second timeout is called so we will see if PBKS send in Livingstone now or not because, for some reason, they didn't send out the big hitting Englishman out after Agarwal was dismissed. 

Bairstow b Chahal 56 (40), PBKS 119/4 in 14.4 overs

PBKS vs RR IPL 2022: OUT! Agarwal falls to Chahal again

Sixth time in 10 innings that Chahal has dismissed Agarwal. Pitches up without too much pace and Agarwal goes for the big shot. He only ends up finding Buttler at long on. 

Agarwal c Buttler b Chahal 15 (13), PBKS 118/3 in 14.3 overs

IPL 2022 Live: Half century for Jonny Bairstow

1st of this innings, 8th in the IPL overall. It has come in 34 balls. This has been a good innings and it looks like the Englishman has found his groove after being promoted to the top of the order. 

IPL Live Score: OUT! Chahal strikes

That is the end for Rajapaksa. He charges down, takes an almighty heave but the ball goes past all of that and takes his leg stump. Chahal didn't give it too much flight and the ball bounces right through the batter. 

Rajapaksa b Chahal 27 (18), PBKS 89/2 in 10.2 overs

PBKS vs RR Live Score: BACK TO BACK FOURS!

Rajapaksa is dominating the proceedings here and he is getting some luck to go his way as well. He first gets a leading edge off Prasidh Krishna off the first ball of the 10th that goes between the keeper and short fine leg and whips the next ball to deep midwicket. 

PBKS vs RR: FOUR! Bairstow goes past his highest score

He has reached 36 with a crafty reverse sweep off Ashwin. Length ball outside off by Ashwin and Baistow closes down the sweep in time to send it towards the boundary. 

IPL 2022 Live Score: PBKS 56/1 after 7 overs

The first timeout of the match has been called. Bhanuka Rajapaksa announced his arrival on the crease with a six off the fourth ball he faced.  

Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals: GONE! Stunner from Buttler!

That is sensational from Buttler. Some of his wicketkeeping skills coming into play there. Dhawan tried to flick a length ball from Ashwin, Buttler had to track back and then jumped, stuck out his right hand like he would when taking a climbing bouncer by a fast bowler when keeping wickets, and then got that hand out of the way while he went down so that he doesn't lose the ball. Brilliant stuff. 

Dhawan c Buttler b Ashwin 12 (16), PBKS 47/1 in 5.1 overs

PBKS vs RR Score: RR 17/0 after two overs

Kuldeep Sen comes in for the third over. As has been the case with most teams bowling first, Samson seems to have decided to rotate his fast bowlers as much as possible. 

PBKS vs RR IPL: Dhawan off the mark

Streaky boundary for Dhawan off Prasidh Krishna as the ball rolls past the slip after taking his outside edge to the boundary. Three more runs to make it seven for the over so this has been a fairly good start for PBKS. 

PBKS vs RR 2022: Two fours in the first over

Good start for Bairstow in the first over as he takes strike with Shikhar Dhawan at the other end. Trent Boult opened the bowling for RR. 

IPL 2022 Live: Head to head

RR have won 13 out of the 23 matches played between these two teams and they have have won three out of the last four games between them. 

IPL Live Score: RR XI

Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(wicketkeeper/captain), Devdutt Padikkal, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Sen

PBKS vs RR Live Score: PBKS XI

Jonny Bairstow, Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal (captain), Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Rishi Dhawan, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Sandeep Sharma

PBKS vs RR: TOSS ALERT

Punjab Kings win the toss and will bat. RR have brought back Yashasvi Jaiswal in place of Karun Nair. Mayank Agarwal says PBKS are unchanged. 

IPL 2022 Live Score: Prasidh Krishna

With 12 wickets he is the leading wicket taker among the pacers for RR and in his last 5 games he has picked at least one wicket.

Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals: Rabada's threat

After enduring a slow start to the season, Kagiso Rabada has exploded to form by taking four wickets each in the last two matches. 

PBKS vs RR Score: Samson's DRS protest

RR's last match produced a rather strange moment when Samson asked for DRS for a ball that was called wide by the umpire. It was a rather harsh call and Samson seemed more keen on saying that the umpire was so wrong that he might have even been out, rather than actually check for a dismissal. 

PBKS vs RR IPL: Samson's fitness

Samson was in visible pain in the last match against KKR due to a bad back. He did manage to keep wickets and it looks like he will be ok to play in today's game. 

PBKS vs RR 2022: Buttler's numbers

After smashing back to back hundreds to make it three for the season in just seven games, Buttler seems to have come down to more human levels of return. He was dismissed for a 25-ball 22 against KKR in RR's last game before which he fell for 67 runs off 52 balls against Mumbai Indians. He was also dismissed for just eight runs by RCB in the game before that, which was right after he had scored his third century of the season. 

IPL 2022 Live: No dew factor to deal with

This is a day so it won't matter what time of the day the two teams are batting in, there won't be any dew coming into play. 

IPL Live Score: Bairstow's struggles

While his good mate and England Test captain Ben Stokes made merry on his return to County Cricket yesterday, it hasn't been smooth sailing for Jonny Bairstow to say the least in this IPL. He is yet to hit a six in the seven innings he has played and has an average of 11.43. 

PBKS vs RR Live Score: Spin early for RR?

PBKS opener and captain Mayank Agarwal may be striking at 170.21 against Yuzvendra Chahal, but the wrist spinner has dismissed him 5 times. Mayank averages just 16 against Chahal and 18.33 against Ravichandran Ashwin. Chahal against PBKS has 25 wickets in 16 games, averaging 17.08 and conceding ay 7.88.

PBKS vs RR: Hello and welcome!

With a nearly faultless bowling department and a batting lineup powered by the seemingly invincible Jos Buttler, RR had emerged as one of the sides to beat this season. But they had frailties, particularly in their batting lineup and that, alongwith many others, have been exposed in the past two matches they have played, both of which they lost. Now, they look to return to winning ways and stop the slide and in front of them are the ridiculously inconsistent Punjab Kings.