Suryavanshi and Jurel blitz Bengaluru to keep Rajasthan unbeaten in IPL

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Rajasthan Royals' Vaibhav Sooryavanshi plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati, India, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Rajasthan Royals' Vaibhav Sooryavanshi plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati, India, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Rajasthan Royals' Dhruv Jurel hits a boundary during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati, India, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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dRajasthan Royals' Vaibhav Sooryavanshi celebrates his fifty runs uring the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati, India, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru's captain Rajat Patidar hits a six during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati, India, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Virat Kohli bowled out during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals in Guwahati, India, Friday, April 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Another breathtaking innings by 15-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi led unbeaten Rajasthan Royals to comfortably overhaul titleholder Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League on Friday. Bengaluru recovered from 125-7 in the 14th over to set a decent target of 202. But Suryavanshi's 78, including another 15-ball half-century, and Dhruv Jurel's unbeaten 81 off 43 balls drove Rajasthan to 202-4 and a six-wicket victory with two overs to spare. Suryavanshi rocketed the chase with 70 in a stand of 108 off 37 balls with Jurel. They were 97-1 after the powerplay. Bengaluru threw test bowlers Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar at him and the kid tore them apart. Suryavanshi got off the mark with a boundary by squeezing a yorker back past Kumar, and welcomed Hazlewood's first ball of the season with a six over deep backward point. Hazlewood's second over was tagged by Suryavanshi for 4-4-4-6. The youngster smashed seven sixes and eight boundaries at a strike rate of 300 in his second fifty of the young season. By the time he was caught at long on, and the crowd rose to applaud his spectacular effort, the chase was as good as over at 129-2 in the ninth over. Jurel then combined with Ravindra Jadeja to finish the inevitable. Jurel's second fifty this season included three sixes and eight boundaries. \\\_ AP cricket: