Sports Desk. On the strength of the stormy innings of wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Jurel (81 runs in 43 balls) and 15-year-old opening batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi (78 runs in 26 balls), Rajasthan Royals defeated defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets in IPL 19 on Friday. RCB, playing first, scored 201 runs after losing eight wickets in the stipulated overs.

In reply, Rajasthan Royals achieved the target with the loss of four wickets in just 18 overs. This is the fourth consecutive victory of Rajasthan Royals. Vaibhav faced only 26 balls during his innings and managed to score 78 runs with a strike rate of 300. On the basis of his innings, Vaibhav Suryavanshi has now registered in his name the record of scoring the most number of fifty or more runs in the powerplay in a match as an Indian player in the history of the Indian Premier League.

Vaibhav completed his fifty in just 15 balls.

When Vaibhav completed his fifty in just 15 balls against RCB, he left behind KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ishan Kishan and Wriddhiman Saha. In the name of all these players, the achievement of playing innings of fifty or more runs 2 times in the powerplay of the Indian Premier League is recorded. Vaibhav Suryavanshi has registered this achievement in his name for the third time. In this matter he has equaled the record of Jos Buttler.

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