Dubai: Rajasthan Royals (RR) chasing the winning target of 192 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) lost the 54th match of 2020 Indian Premier League (IPL) by 60 runs at the Dubai International Stadium. The win for Kolkata side means that they are still alive in the race to the playoffs as they now pin their hopes on Sunrisers Hyderabad to lose its last match.
RR openers Ben Stokes and Robin Uthappa had a good start with boundaries in the first over. However, RR got a big jolt with dismissal of Uthappa in the last ball of the over. Uthappa had hit only a six and was back to hut. Pat Cummins dismissed him.
RR received another big blow in the 3rd over with the departure of Stokes. Stokes scored 18 runs off 10 deliveries and again it was Cummins.
Cummins struck RR for the 3rd time in the same over dismissing skipper Steven Smith. Smith scored only 4 runs.
Following Cummins, Shivam Mavi…
