The eliminator match of IPL 2024 was played today (May 22) between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Rajasthan blew away RCB in this match. With this, Virat Kohli's RCB is out of IPL 2024.

Now the Rajasthan team is 2 wins away from the title. Their next match will be Qualifier-2, where they will face Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). The match will be played on May 24 at the Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The team that wins this match will enter the final, where they will face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on 26th May.

Batting first, RCB lost the toss and set a target of 173 runs in this match played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In reply, Rajasthan won the match for the loss of 6 wickets. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a brilliant knock of 45 runs off 30 balls for the team.

But at one point, 3 fell for Rajasthan's 86 runs. After this, the fourth wicket was lost for 112 runs. After that, Rian Parag saved Rajasthan who looked under pressure. Parag scored 36 off 26 balls.

Finally, Shimron Hetmyer's knock of 26 off 13 balls and Rovman Powell's unbeaten knock of 16 off 8 balls led the team to victory. Mohammad Siraj took 2 wickets from RCB.

RCB's innings

RCB scored 172 for 8 in 20 overs while batting first. Rajat Patidar top scored for RCB with 34, while Virat Kohli scored 33 and Mahipal Lomar scored 32.

Kohli hit 3 fours and 1 six off 24 balls. Cameron Green scored 27 runs. Rajat Patidar scored 34 off 22 balls. Dinesh Karthik returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs. Swapnil Singh remained unbeaten with 9 runs.

Avesh Khan took the most 3 wickets from Rajasthan. At the same time, Ashwin got two wickets. Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma and Chahal got one wicket each.