IPL LIVE Score, RR vs CSK Live Cricket Score: Rajasthan Royals set the goal of 217 runs for the Chennai Super Kings while Sanju Samson, Steve Smith hit 50

Inning break: RR 216/7 in 20 overs

RR end with a single when they hit 216/7.

A back-and-forth innings, this, when RR got off to a good start, then CSK made a comeback and finally Archer led some fireworks the last time around to blow Rajasthan over 200.

Is it enough in this field? Stay tuned for CSK’s response.

POINT BALL! WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

Slower short ball and Archer misses this with his wild punch.

A ball of points, completely against the course of the game!

LARGE!

WIDES bowling doesn’t take away your free throw, Lungi.

Archer’s grand prize. This is the third free hit you will receive!

FOUR SIX IN A ROW! YUVRAJ SINGH, IS IT YOU?

6, 6, 6, 6

A free throw disappears into the stands when Archer hits another six in a row.

And guess what? IT’S ANOTHER NO-BALL!

FREE HIT AGAIN!

200 FOR RR!

Archer takes the free kick!

200 is available for RR!

SIX! SIX! SIX! AND A FREE SUCCESS!

A HAT OF SIX!

Ngidi falls short again on the bowls, AND HAS OVERCOME! – and Archer breaks it. Another six in the middle of the gate.

SIX! OFF THE GROUND!

Archer calls his intern Samson and crushes him OUT OF THE EARTH!

Ngidi cuts it short and Archer breaks it by six in the middle of the gate.

What a blow!

SIX!

Archer breaks it!

Ngidi throws a long ball and Archer makes full use of his bottom hand and hits it over the player’s head for SIX!

Great start in the end.

FOUR!

Sam Curran to Tom Curran.

Brother to brother.

Space out, Tom gets an outside advantage, and the ball beats Watson on the third cut and escapes for four.

RR 186/7 in 19 overs.

SHUTTER! Smith c Jadhav b Curran 69 (47)

BIG MILLION!

What a CSK comeback this has been!

At one point, RR appeared to be sailing over 200 in total. Now, reaching 200 will be difficult.

Curran catches Smith when the batter fails to clear the half-gate fence and finds Jadhav in deep.

Smith throws it up optimistically, relying on his lower hand, but doesn’t get the power.

OUTSIDE? Not really! Technology saves the day!

Tom Curran has been delivered. But there is some confusion here, as there seems to be an error on the part of the referee.

Ngidi brings him back to Tom Curran as the batter scores a punch across the line.

The ball, the umpire feels, hit the bat and went to Dhoni, who appeared to have caught it.

However, it was clear from the responses that the ball had bounced right in front of Dhoni.

The best common sense prevailed in the end when the referees referred him to the third referee who gave the correct decision of NO GO!

SHUTTER! Parag c Dhoni b Curran 6 (4)

Curran get another one!

Parag had a limit through a late cut on the ball earlier and throws the same shot again.

This time he only manages to give the goalkeeper an advantage when Dhoni juggles the catch, but ultimately catches it.

SHUTTER! Tewatia lbw b Curran 10 (8)

Curran returns for his last two overs and gets the Tewatia wicket!

He throws a slower ball that hits Tewatia on the front foot, full on the boot.

Tewatia checks but there are three REDS and has to go.

Curran STRIKE!

FOUR!

Left-hander Rahul Tewatia also enters the scene.

Ngidi provides width outside and Tewatia leads it through decks for four.

RR hopes to up the ante in the last five overs.

UP FOR FOUR!

Smith walks on his stumps and makes Ngidi go through a thin leg to mark the boundary.

Smudgy is getting modern here and RR looks set for a strong finish.

SHUTTER! Uthappa (c du Plessis b Chawla) 5 (9)

Chawla, who has been taken for 50 in 3 overs, comes back and lands a wicket.

Uthappa dances down the window and tosses one into the distance, but misses the right connection.

Du Plessis puts it well inside the ropes.

CSK is making its way back into the game.

DROPPED AND SIX!

Jadeja turns the arm and throws it full and wide from the stump.

Smith, the teacher, catches up to him in time and crushes him long ago

Curran, placed on the fence, puts his hands on the ball but the cherry explodes between the palms and goes over the ropes.

CSK must improve on the field. They need to hold onto those opportunities.

SHUTTER! Miller Runs Out (Gaikwad) 0 (0)

Attached windows for CSK! Things have been taken away!

Miller’s bat got stuck in the ground as he tried to run a brace for teammate Smith and consequently fell a few inches off his ground on the far end of the non-forward.

Is this the initial need for the CSK?

SHUTTER! Samson c Chahar b Ngidi 74 (32)

Ngidi comes back and STRIKE!

CSK HAS SAMSON!

This ball was very wide on the outside when Samson had to reach for it. He slashes it arrogantly, but fails to clear the fence on the opposite side when Chahar takes a good catch on the deep cover fence.

SIX!

Jadeja of the other, turning the wheel of time, as it is, without much change or success.

Samson smashes another over Jadeja’s head for six more. He’s getting a little boring now with the hitting six.

CSK needs to mix things up!

FOUR!

RR ARE DOMINATING!

SIX MORE!

What the hell is going on ?!

Chawla keeps pitching it and the batters keep hitting him from the ground.

Samson breaks it again, this time for a long time, for another six.

SIX!

Chawla returns and is greeted with a six again.

Only this time it’s Smith.

Chawla tosses it and Smith hits it over the bowler’s head for another six.

100 for RR!

100 is up for RR … ONLY 9 OVERS!

NO BALL! FREE HIT! SIX MORE!

Chawla commits the cardinal sin of not bowling!

Smith lands the free kick and follows in Samson’s footsteps to launch another six into the night sky over Sharjah.

This is the highest level T20 hit by Smith and Samson.

SIX! SAM IS ON THE SONG!

Samson is celebrating 50 with six others!

It hits it directly on the player’s head and the player is also OFF THE GROUND!

What a magnificent blow!

50 For Sanju Samson!

Sanju Samson takes his 50 out of ONLY 19 BALLS!

SIX! OFF THE GROUND!

Piyush Chawla goes bowling. And Samson hits him for TWO HUGE SIX!

The second has sent the ball OUT OF THE GROUND!

SIX!

Too full of Jadeja and Smason gets into it!

Hit this one in a long time for another SIX!

Samson looks doubly dangerous now.

SIX!

Ravindra Jadeja disappears.

What a wonderful batting Samson!

He clears his back leg and throws the ball through a HUGE SIX!

Powerplay done! RR 54/1

Chahar has altered his rhythm. Bowls full but bowls on the pads.

All Smith had to do was pass the thin leg for four.

50 for RR!

SIX! Samson cries in CSK

Chahar makes the same mistake Curran did in the last over.

He drops the ball short and into Samson’s body and the batter hits it absolutely in the middle of the wicket for another SIX!

That’s right in Samson’s strong areas. Scored 40% of his runs in the region between midwicket and thin leg at IPL 2019.

SIX!

Curran comes up short again and this time he launches himself into Samson’s body.

Samson hits him in the middle of the wicket during his first six.

He looks dangerous, CSK would have to see his back soon!

FOUR!

Curran continues. Drop a short, wide stump.

Samson opens the face of the bat and guides the ball between the goalie and the third short man for four.

Samson and Smith look to accelerate in Powerplay

Nigidi started with a short ball that went for six and ends with a short ball that fortunately only reaches two to RR.

9 runs since Ngidi’s first over. RR is moving.

Smith welcomes Ngidi with a SIX!

Lungi Ngidi walks over to the bowling pins and shoots one into Smith’s body. The Australian nonchalantly tosses it over the square leg for a six.

What a shot!

FOUR!

Chahar cuts him short again, but Smith won’t make the mistake Jaiswal did. He hits it in the middle of the wicket for his first boundary.

Sanju Samson is the new batter

Samson walks in and puts his first ball on the pads. He easily moves it to a fine leg for a single.