Tushar Deshpande bowled an excellent last over as Rajasthan Royals edged out Gujarat Titans by six runs to win their second successive match of the IPL season on Saturday.

Spinner Ravi Bishnoi took four wickets but it was Deshpande who held his nerve to deny Gujarat 11 runs in the final over while chasing 211 for victory at their home in Ahmedabad.

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Deshpande started with a wide to Kagiso Rabada, who hit an unbeaten 23, but soon nailed his yorkers and dismissed Gujarat’s stand-in-skipper Rashid Khan, who made 24, on the fifth ball.

He gave away just four runs as Rajasthan celebrated their second win to take the top spot from Delhi Capitals, who beat Mumbai Indians in the first match of the day in Delhi.

“The discussion was clear, like, you know, we just need to hit one boundary,” said Rashid.

“And I think Tushar bowled really well. He bowled some exceptional yorkers.”

Delhi and Punjab Kings have two wins in two matches but Rajasthan, led by Riyan Parag, are number one in the 10-team table with a better net run-rate.

England pace bowler Jofra Archer was equally effective as he bowled the 19th over for just four runs when Gujarat need 15 to win from the last 12 balls.

“I took a challenge thinking that let’s go full and fast,” said Parag on going with two quicks in overs 19 and 20.

“It’s insane that they (Archer and Tushar) executed as we wanted.”

Gujarat opener Sai Sudharsan top-scored with 73 and Jos Buttler hit 26 but the batting collapsed after they looked good on 2-127 in 12 overs.

Rashid and Rabada then threatened to pull off the chase with late cameos and a 43-run eighth-wicket partnership but it was not to be.

Impact substitute Bishnoi, a leg-spinner, took down Sudharsan and struck regular blows to rattle the batting as he went past 200 T20 wickets.

Earlier Rajasthan posted a competitive 210-6 after they elected to bat first with wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel hitting 75 and opener Yashasvi Jaiswal 55.

Left-handers Jaiswal and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who hit an 18-ball 31, got the team off to a flier with an opening stand of 70 in 6.2 overs.

Sooryavanshi, a T20 batting sensation who blasted a 17-ball 52 in his team’s opening win, unleashed his power with five fours and one six before leg-spinner Rashid cut short his innings.

Jaiswal kept up pace and put on 56 runs with Jurel to strengthen the foundations of the tall total.

Rajasthan wobbled with a few wickets including Shimron Hetmyer out for 18 but Jurel took the attack to the opposition with five fours and five sixes in his 42-ball knock, but it was not enough.

Elsewhere, Titans speedster Ashok Sharma, playing his second IPL game, turned heads by clocking 154.1km/h, the fastest delivery of the season to date. He finished with figures of 1-37 from four overs having dismissed West Indies slugger Shimron Hetmyer.

RIZVI STARS AS DELHI DOWN MUMBAI

In-form batter Sameer Rizvi hit an attacking 90 to steer Delhi Capitals to a second successive win this IPL season as they beat Mumbai Indians by six wickets on Saturday.

Chasing 163 for victory, Delhi rode on Rizvi’s 51-ball knock laced with seven fours and seven sixes to achieve the target with 11 balls to spare at their home Arun Jaitley Stadium.

It was 22-year-old Rizvi’s third successive half-century in the T20 tournament after his unbeaten 70 in the opener and a fifty to close last year’s IPL.

Delhi slipped to 2-7 including opener KL Rahul out for one before Sri Lanka’s Pathum Nissanka, who made 44, put on a 66-run stand with the swashbuckling Rizvi.

Nissanka departed in the 10th over but Rizvi, who came in as impact substitute in the chase, stood firm and put on another key stand of 78 with David Miller, who hit the winning four in his unbeaten 21.

Rizvi departed in the 17th over, denied a century by South Africa pace bowler Corbin Bosch, with the batter walking back to a thunderous applause from the home crowd.

Five-time winners Mumbai, who were without skipper Hardik Pandya who was ill, lost the toss and were put into bat, posting 162-6 with stand-in-skipper Suryakumar Yadav top-scoring with 51.

Delhi’s medium-pace bowler Mukesh Kumar did the early damage with his twin strikes in one over including opener Ryan Rickelton for nine and Tilak Varma for a duck.

Rohit Sharma made 35 but it was India’s T20 World Cup-winning captain Suryakumar and Naman Dhir (28) who enabled Mumbai to post a decent total.