By SUNIL Sonkar

New Delhi, March 18 — Royal Challengers Bangalore beats Rajasthan Royals by 10 wickets on Thursday in the 10th match of Indian Premier League third edition at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Royal Challengers did a good start and finished off the chase of 93-run in just 10.3 overs.

Jacques Kallis made 44 runs and remained not out and Manish Pandey also stayed on the pitch till last making 42. Both of them made an unbeaten 93-run partnership and gave RCB an easy victory.

In the season Praveen Kumar made the first hat-trick and skipper Anil Kumble registered impressive figures of 3 for 9. The RCB bowlers wrapped the Rajasthan Royals for a paltry 92 runs.

The hat-trick of Praveen was seventh in the history of the tournament with 3/18. He played a very important role in restricting the RR in just three figure mark.

Jacques Kallis is the Man of the Match for his all round performance.

Teams

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Anil Kumble, Dale Steyn, Eoin Morgan, Jacques Kallis, Manish Pandey, Mark Boucher, Praveen Kumar, Rahul Dravid, Robin Uthappa, Vinay Kumar, Virat Kohli

Rajasthan Royals: Damien Martyn, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Michael Lumb, Morne Morkel, Munaf Patel, Naman Ojha, Paras Dogra, Shane Warne, Siddharth Trivedi, Sumit Narwal, Yusuf Pathan.