Pbks vs rr: Rajasthan Royals defeated Punjab Kings by 50 runs in the 18th match of IPL 2025 played on Saturday. Rajasthan has stopped the winning chariot of Punjab (PBKS Vs RR), who won two consecutive matches. Losing the toss and batting first Rajasthan, with the help of Yashaswi Jaiswal's 67 and Ryan Parag's 43 runs, gave a huge score of 205 runs on the score board, in response to which Punjab could score only 155 runs and lost the match. This is the second consecutive win of Rajasthan (Pbks Vs RR).

Rajasthan batsmen hit

After losing the toss, Rajasthan (PBKS Vs RR) was given a bang of 89 runs off 62 balls by captain Sanju Samson and young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal. Sanju became the victim of Lockie Ferguson by scoring 38 runs. After this, Yashaswi completed his fifty and scored 67 runs off 45 balls before being dismissed, including three fours and 5 sky sixes, after Yashasvi was dismissed, Ryan Parag took the front and gave an unbeaten 43 runs off just 25 balls and three sixes with the help of three sixes. At the same time, Jurael scored 13 off 5 balls and Shimron Hetmyer scored 20 runs off 12 balls and made a valuable contribution in taking Rajasthan to 205 runs in 20 overs.

Punjab bowlers flopped

For the first time in IPL 2025 (PBKS Vs RR), the bowling of Punjab Kings, playing at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Stadium, proved to be a completely flop. Punjab failed to take wickets in the initial overs, which he suffered in the end over. In this match, Arshdeep Singh took one wicket for 35 runs in four overs, while Marco Yansen had 45 runs in four overs and had one wicket. Apart from this, Marcus Stoinis also spent 48 runs in four overs. At the same time, star leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal was also sitting with 32 runs in three overs. In this match, the maximum two wickets for Punjab (PBKS Vs RR) were earned by Lucky Ferguson, but for this he sent 37 runs in four overs.

Batsman did not go

The batting of Punjab Kings (PBKS Vs RR), which was a flop in bowling, also flopped. It is considered to be favorable for the batsmen, a single Punjab batsman failed to play a big innings on the pitch of Mullanpur. Priyansh Arya became clean bowled off Jofra Archer's ball off the first ball of the first over of the innings. After this, captain Iyer, who landed at number three, also scored 10 runs off 5 balls. It was expected from here that Marcus Stoinis would carry out the task of handling and grooming the innings, but he too returned to the pavilion after scoring a run off 7 balls. Although Nihal Vadhera played a good innings of 62 runs off 41 balls, he could not save his team from defeat. At the same time, Glenn Maxwell scored 30 runs off 21 balls.