These are not a great time to be a fan of Rajasthan Royals. The franchise suffered its 5th gradual disadvantage of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season, going down against the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in a thrilling competition on Thursday. The necklace placed the Royals in the 8th position in the points table, with just 2 wins in 9 matches. After the game, a fan recorded the franchise chief executive officer, Jake Lush-Maikkram, who was running towards a famous liquor store in Bengaluru, and the video quickly went viral on social media.
With the match not ending in favor of Rajasthan, the act of Lush-Maikkram gave fans a lot to joking on social media. However, whether it was actually the RR CEO or not, cannot be said with certainty based on the video alone.
RR owner walks directly to tonic after damage against RCB#RCBVSRR pic.twitter.com/p1hkr06isd
– Sumukh Anant (@sumukh_ananth) 24 April, 2025
For the match, Josh Hazlewood starred at home against Rajasthan Royals with Royal Challengers Bangalore’s 11-run IPL win, who won the toss and selected to field on the first Thursday.
Chasing 206 to win after 205–5 in Bengaluru, Rajasthan rejected Dhruv Jurlel by Hajalwood in the 19th over the Chase. Jurall scored 34-genders 47 runs and was removed from 9 balls to win with 17 needs.
Hazelwood removed England’s Joffra Archer on the next ball, with Royals to overcome the need for the final with 17.
Earlier, Virat Kohli scored 70 off 42 balls for Bengaluru in Bengaluru for Bengaluru.
Openers Kohli and Phil Salat proceeded 59–0 in Powerplay to remove the team 61–1 with the team in the seventh over in Salt.
Kohli then shared a significant 95 -run partnership with Devdutt Padikkal before falling into the archer in the 16th over.
Padikkal, who was batting very well, soon fell to 161–3 with Bengaluru after 27 balls.
Tim David (23) and Jitesh Sharma’s quick wickets towards the end before the cameo of the cameo removed the speed, which remained unbeaten at 20.
Indian Test opener Yashsvi Jaiswal hit a 19-ball 49 before he was removed by Hazelwood.
His early partner, Vaibhav Suryavanshi fell to India’s legend Bhuvneshwar Kumar at the beginning of 16 years, ending with 1-50 in his four over spell.
Spinner Krunal Pandya played an important magic and removed both Nitish Rana (28) and Rajasthan captain Ryan Parag (22), who looked dangerous after the fall of the early wickets.
Rajasthan was hovering before Rana’s wicket in the 14th over, but its batsmen failed to convert their team into a score to help cross the finish line.
With AFP input
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