it's all over, a target of 210 chased down with 25 balls to spare, Parag finishes it by slamming the pull over deep midwicket, GT look stunned by what's happened in Jaipur tonight
GT vs RR, 47th Match at Jaipur, IPL, Apr 28 2025 - Ball by Ball Commentary
RR won by 8 wickets (with 25 balls remaining)
Ravi: "Just expanding the comment by Rohan - the four centurians are:Abhishek 141 (88), Ishan 106* (47), Arya 103 (61), and Suryavanshi 101 (38)."
There will be a lot of celebration of Vaibhav Suryavanshi's performance on our site tonight - stats, quotes, analysis, the works. Make sure you soak it all up. RR stay alive with an astonishing victory, their players are all around Suryavanshi on the outfield.
Shubman Gill: "I think they took the game away from us in the powerplay, credit to them for that. We could have done a couple of things better, but it's easy to say those things when sitting out, some chances came out way and we didn't take them. I sat out because I felt a back spasm, didn't want to take a chance. Next match is at Ahmedabad, we've had a good run there. It was Suryavanshi's day, his hitting was tremendous and he made full use of it."
Jaiswal: "Incredible innings, one of the best I have seen. Hope he will do it for us for a long time. I was telling him to just keep going, incredible today. He just played amazing shots, he practises well, works hard in the hits. He has the game and temperament, wish him all the luck. We were talking that somebody needs to stay and finish the game after the last three games, I was there luckily today and tried my best. Our coach says one game at a time and we'll give 100% each game."
We'll have the presentation for you shortly, where we'll hear from the 14-year old force that is Vaibhav Suryavanshi. 35-ball hundred, second fastest in IPL history, youngest T20 centurion ever. After losing five matches in a row, and three of them in chases that they should have won, RR have ended their losing streak with a statement victory.
Riyan Parag at the presentation: It was incredible, we've spent two months with him, we have seen what he can do. but to see him do this against the world class bowlers GT has, can't express in words. We were thinking how we can finish this earlier, bat with real intent, it came off. Big confidence booster, we were searching for this win, now taking it one game at a time."
Vaibhav Suryavanshi is the Player of the Match: It feels really good. It was my first century in the IPL in my third innings. What I've been practicing for the last three-four months, the result is showing. I don't see the ground so much, just focus on the ball. Batting with him gives me confidence because he keeps very positive and giving me advice, so it becomes easy to bat with him. It is like a dream, to score a century in the IPL. No, no fear. [On if bowlers will target him] I'm not thinking about all that, I am just focusing on playing.
I'm going to leave it there. It's been memorable. Until next time, have a good night.
played to long off for one more
goes right back and cuts the ball hard to the backward point boundary, he's played a superb innings too tonight, and on most days would be the player of the match for this performance
Siraj drops a high catch on the edge of the deep midwicket boundary! Parag went back and pulled the ball extremely high into the air, Siraj had to run to his right to get to the ball, he made good ground but could not hold on
pulled through square leg for a single, just 10 needed now
Rohan: "So far, four 100's this IPL - all by Indian batters - all youngsters, two of them are playing IPL for first time. Other two are not considered for Indian XI. Unbelievable stuff.."
he's connected with it this time, slog-sweeping the ball flat and powerfully enough to beat deep backward square leg
gets beaten by the turn across him and misses the slog sweep
backs away outside leg stump and slaps the ball flat over the infield at cover
short ball from around the wicket and Parag sends it miles into the air and far over the midwicket boundary with a tremendous pull shot
nudged off the pads towards mid on
makes room by moving outside leg and gets a thick outside edge that flies over the fielder at backward point, Parag was aiming over cover point but gets four anyway
Zaid Rahmani: "In all this mayhem, Rashid silently walked off with 1-24 off his 4 overs. T20 GOAT!"
Lots of you have asked if Sai Kishore is on a bowling holiday; here he is now.
The umpire signals for the strategic timeout with RR needing 27 runs off the last 36 balls to stay alive in the IPL.
full and straight, flocked off the pads between midwicket and mid on
sort of a length angling across the left-hander, Jaiswal heaves at it and launches the ball over cover for three, not often you see that in the IPL
nudged towards long on for a single
played back to the bowler from the crease, Prasidh fumbles in the follow through but they decide against the single
short ball and pulled in the air but short of the fielder at deep midwicket
played with an open face to deep backward point
defended on the front foot on the leg side, Buttler appeals for lbw but doesn't get it, that might have pitched outside leg
flicked uppishly just wide of the fielder at midwicket
driven off the front foot through covers, placed it into the gap to come back for two
Parag is the new batter. RR have this under control, but they also had their last three chases under control. Surely they will get the job done tonight?
Over 16 • RR 212/2
RR won by 8 wickets (with 25 balls remaining)