RR vs RCB Head to Head Record and Stats

RR vs RCB head to head record by season

This rivalry tends to come in blocks. Rajasthan swept the season pair in 2008, 2014, 2018 and 2024. RCB did the same in 2010, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025. RCB’s longest run was five straight wins, from 2020 to the first 2022 meeting at the Wankhede, two of them at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

The two most used grounds are dead level. At the M Chinnaswamy Stadium it is 4 wins each from 10 games, and at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur it is 5 each from 10. In other words, home advantage has counted for very little.

What has counted is batting second. The chasing team has come out on top 21 times, the team batting first only 11, so almost two chases succeed for every defence. Opening innings have averaged 168, and the recent trend is upward: RCB’s 205/5 in Bengaluru in 2025 and the 201/8 and 202/4 at Guwahati in 2026 are among the five highest totals in the series.

Kohli, Buttler and the leading run scorers

Virat Kohli (RCB) has 928 runs against Rajasthan, almost twice as many as the next man. He has batted 33 times in this fixture, nearly every game. His 113* from 72 deliveries in Jaipur on 6 Apr 2024 is the best knock in this rivalry, but Jos Buttler (RR) answered the same evening with 100* and Rajasthan won by 6 wickets.

Buttler has two hundreds against RCB, the other being 106* at Ahmedabad on 27 May 2022, and averages 52.50. AB de Villiers (RCB) scored 488, going at 161.59 per 100 balls, and his 3 match awards lead this rivalry. Sanju Samson (RR) has 445 runs from 20 innings. Devdutt Padikkal (RCB) averages 65.00 from 7 innings, helped by his 101* when RCB won by 10 wickets in Mumbai on 22 Apr 2021.

Bowling records and the lowest totals

Yuzvendra Chahal claimed 18 for RCB in this fixture, each costing 13.61, at 6.05 an over. Harshal Patel (RCB) has 17 and Shreyas Gopal (RR) 14 at just 11.14.

Anil Kumble (RCB) owns the standout spell, 5/5 from 3.1 overs at Newlands, Cape Town on 18 Apr 2009, when Rajasthan were bowled out for 58. That is still the lowest total in the series. RR nearly matched it on 14 May 2023 in Jaipur, all out for 59 in 10.3 overs as RCB won by 112 runs, the biggest margin between these sides. RCB’s own low point is 70 all out at Abu Dhabi in 2014.

Every one of the six biggest wins listed belongs to RCB. More team detail sits on the RCB IPL records and Rajasthan Royals records pages, and Rajasthan’s even series with Mumbai is on RR vs MI.