Rajasthan Royals Beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru as Phil Salt Creates Unwanted IPL Record

In the 16th IPL 2026 match, Rajasthan Royals took on Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Barsapara Cricket Stadium on Friday. RCB won the toss but started their batting innings poorly. Phil Salt got out without scoring any runs. Salt has made another record that he certainly wouldn’t want to be part of.

For the third time in his IPL career, Salt was dismissed off the first delivery of the game. He now holds the unfortunate record of being dismissed off the first delivery of the game the most times in the IPL. Salt was caught by Dhruv Jurel off Jofra Archer’s bowling. Parthiv Patel (4) holds the record for the most dismissals off the first ball of an innings in the IPL. Salt, Dwayne Bravo, Prithvi Shaw, and KL Rahul are next on this unwanted list.

Devdutt Padikkal, who scored half-centuries in the previous two matches, also failed to make a significant impact, managing only 14 off 7 balls. Ravi Bishnoi dismissed Krunal Pandya for 1 run. Virat Kohli failed to convert his good start into a big innings. He scored 32 runs off 16 balls with the help of 7 fours before being clean bowled by Ravi Bishnoi.

RCB came into this match with one change. Josh Hazlewood returned to the playing XI after recovering from a fit condition and was included in place of Jacob Duffy. She conceded 44 runs in 4 overs at an economy rate of 11, although she managed to take 2 wickets. Rajasthan Royals also made one change, resting Tushar Deshpande and giving a chance to Brijesh Sharma.

In IPL 2026, RCB is at the third position in the points table after winning 2 out of 3 matches, while Rajasthan Royals have strengthened their position at the top by winning 4 consecutive matches. Talking about the match, batting first, RCB scored 201 runs in 20 overs. Rajasthan Royals achieved the target of 202 runs in 18 overs, in which Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 76 runs and Dhruv Jurel scored an unbeaten 81 runs.