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Venue: Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune
Toss: Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and chose to bat
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary and C Shamshuddin
Match Result: Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 71 runs to qualify for Qualifier 2
Man of the Match: AB de Villiers (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
| Royal Challengers Bangalore (20 Overs Maximum) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | |
| Chris Gayle | b Kulkarni | 27 | 26 | 4 | 1 |
| Virat Kohli (C) | c and b Kulkarni | 12 | 18 | – | – |
| AB de Villiers | run out (Binny/Faulkner) | 66 | 38 | 4 | 4 |
| Mandeep Singh | not out | 54 | 34 | 7 | 2 |
| Dinesh Karthik (WK) | c Rahane b Morris | 8 | 3 | – | 1 |
| Sarfaraz Khan | not out | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| David Wiese | |||||
| Mitchell Starc | |||||
| Harshal Patel | |||||
| Yuzvendra Chahal | |||||
| Sreenath Aravind | |||||
| Extras | 12 (4 b, 3 lb, 5 w) | ||||
| Total | 180/4 (20 overs) | ||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-41 (Gayle, 5.6 ov), 2-46 (Kohli, 7.3 ov), 3-159 (de Villiers, 18.4 ov), 4-177 (Karthik, 19.3 ov) | |||||
| Rajasthan Royals bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Chris Morris | 4 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 1 | – |
| James Faulkner | 4 | 0 | 42 | 0 | – | – |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | 4 | 0 | 28 | 2 | – | – |
| Shane Watson | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 4 | – |
| Ankit Sharma | 3 | 0 | 28 | 0 | – | – |
| Stuart Binny | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – |
| Rajasthan Royals (Target : 181 from 20 Overs) | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | |
| Ajinkya Rahane | c de Villiers b Chahal | 42 | 39 | 4 | – |
| Shane Watson | c Karthik b Aravind | 10 | 5 | 2 | – |
| Sanju Samson (WK) | c Karthik b Patel | 5 | 8 | – | – |
| Steven Smith (C) | c de Villiers b Wiese | 12 | 13 | 1 | – |
| Karun Nair | c Karthik b Patel | 12 | 13 | 2 | – |
| Deepak Hooda | c Starc b Wiese | 11 | 14 | – | – |
| James Faulkner | c and b Aravind | 4 | 4 | 1 | – |
| Stuart Binny | run out (Chahal/Karthik) | 0 | 1 | – | – |
| Chris Morris | c Chahal b Starc | 0 | 3 | – | – |
| Ankit Sharma | not out | 7 | 5 | 1 | – |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | b Chahal | 3 | 9 | – | – |
| Extras | 3 (3 w) | ||||
| Total | 109 all out (19 overs) | ||||
| Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Watson, 1.6 ov), 2-33 (Samson, 4.5 ov), 3-55 (Smith, 8.1 ov), 4-79 (Nair, 12.1 ov), 5-87 (Rahane, 13.6 ov), 6-92 (Faulkner, 14.4 ov), 7-92 (Binny, 14.5 ov), 8-95 (Morris, 15.6 ov), 9-99 (Hooda, 16.5 ov), 10-109 (Kulkarni, 18.6 ov) | |||||
| Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Mitchell Starc | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Sreenath Aravind | 4 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 1 | – |
| Harshal Patel | 3 | 0 | 15 | 2 | – | – |
| David Wiese | 4 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 1 | – |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | 4 | 0 | 20 | 2 | – | – |