Punjab Kings beat Rajasthan Royals by 10 runs, inch closer to playoffs in IPL 2025.

IPL 2025, RR vs PBKS: The 59th match of the ongoing season of IPL was played between Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings at the Sawai Mansingh Cricket Stadium in Jaipur on Sunday, May 18, Sunday. Let us know that Punjab Kings have won by 10 runs in this match.

Batting first, Punjab had set a target of 220 runs to win in front of Rajasthan, chasing RR only 209 runs. After this victory, Punjab Kings have almost confirmed their place in the playoffs of the ongoing season.

RR vs PBKS, 59th match of IPL 2025

Telling you in detail about the match, Punjab Kings decided to bat first and bat first, and the entire team scored a total of 219 runs at the loss of five wickets in the prescribed 20 overs. However, the start of Punjab Kings in the match was nothing special.

The team lost three wickets on a total score of 34 runs. Priyansh Arya 9, Prabhasimran Singh 21 and Mitchell Oven had been out without opening an account. But after this, Nehal Vadhera scored 70 runs in 37 balls in the middle order, while captain Shreyas contributed 30 runs. So at the same time, Shashank Singh in the end remained unbeaten by scoring 59* and Ajmatullah Umrajai 21* and the team scored 200.

On the other hand, Tusshar Deshpande got two wickets, when we talk about the bowling of Rajasthan Royals. Apart from this, Quen Mafaka, Ryan Parag and Akash Madhwal got one wicket each.

Subsequently, when Rajasthan Royals came to chase a target of 220 runs from Punjab Kings, she was able to score only 209 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs, and lost by 10 runs in the match. In the match, Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 50 and Dhruv Juril scored 53 runs for RR. But the rest of the team could not show anything special.

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