Buttler, Jaiswal and Boult fashion Rajasthan Royals’ clinical victory

Rajasthan Royals pulls off a clinical all-round performance as it beat Delhi Capitals by 57 runs

Rajasthan Royals pulled off a clinical all-round performance as it beat Delhi Capitals by 57 runs to bounce back to winning ways in the IPL at the Barsapara Stadium here on Saturday.

Capitals were outplayed for most of the game as they fell to a third straight defeat while Royals wound up their ‘home run’ with a win.

Royals’ win was set up by a solid batting performance led by openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (60) and Jos Buttler (79), and backed up by a fiery Trent Boult and later on by spin twins R. Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal.

Boult struck twice in the first over — for a record-extending fourth time in the IPL — to rock Capitals’ chase, which failed to kick on, mostly because of a slow-paced fifty from skipper David Warner.

After being sent in, Jaiswal and Buttler began in top gear, with the former smashing Khaleel Ahmed for five boundaries to gather 20 runs in the first over.

Jaiswal dominated the partnership as he raced to his fifty in 25 balls. The opening duo dealt mostly in boundaries as Royals gathered 68 runs in the PowerPlay.

The left-hander’s entertaining knock came to an end when he could only fend a Mukesh Kumar bouncer back to the bowler.