IPL 2018 RR v/s RCB: Royal Challengers Bangalore 'st Klaasen b Gopal'- Twitter hails heroes of Rajasthan Royals' win

Rajasthan Royals kept themselves alive in the race for IPL play-offs as they defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 30 runs at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Saturday.

Shreyas Gopal, Heinrich Klassen, Rahul Tripathi and K Gowtham emerged as heroes for Royals in the match. 

Rahul Tripathi scored a brillinat 80 runs off 58 balls at the top while Heinrich Klassen (32)and K Gowtham (14) finished with a flourish to take Rajasthan Royals to 164/5. 

Gowtham then removed RCB skipper Virat Kohli early during the chase. However, Parthiv Patel and AB de Villiers looked set to take the visitors to the win. 

Patel (33) was brilliantly stumped by Klassen off Gopal's bowling. The "st Klassen b Gopal" combine accounted for two more RCB bastmen including AB de Villiers (53 of 35 balls). 

Gopal finished with 16/4 while Klassen effected 4 dismissals behind the stumps. Gopal also caught Moeen Ali off his own bowling while Klassen took a great catch of Laughlin's bowling to send back Sarfaraz Khan.

RCB were bowled out 134 runs for in 19.2 overs.

The win kept Rajasthan in IPL 2018 play-offs contention with points and a Net Run Rate of -0.250.  

Here's how Twitter reacted to Rajasthan Royals' win:

#RRvRCB Rahane's Captaincy Today was.Add to that Gopal's bowling and Klaasen's Wicket Keeping.#HallaBol

— Rohan (@JoshipuraRohan) May 19, 2018

Shreyes Gopal won the game for Rajathan Royals! #Rajasthan #RR #IPL #IPL2018 #RCB #RCBvRR pic.twitter.com/adcOattJuQ

— sweepcricket (@sweepcricket) May 19, 2018

That was some special spell of spin bowling from Gopal. Wow #VIVOIPL

— deep (@Amardeep9S) May 19, 2018

Shreyas Gopal tore the house down with his howling #RRvRCB

— KUNDAN SINHA (@kundansinha1005) May 19, 2018

Irony is that RCB ignored Karnataka players and was beaten at the crucial stage by Karnataka player Shreyas Gopal! #RCBvsRR #IPL

— That Guy (@avid__dreamer) May 19, 2018

Heinrich klassen today**

32 (21) with the bat

And four dismissals behind the wickets #IPL2018 #RRvRCB https://t.co/rCYlsLJsyd

— Aslam malik (@bajrangi_Aslam) May 19, 2018

Klassen should be adjudged man of d match only on basis of his wicket keeping skill!!

Top notch!#RRvsRCB #KentCricketLIVE

— Rebel (@IndomitableSelf) May 19, 2018