PBKS vs RR IPL 2025: Rajasthan Royals star pacer Jofra Archer gave the team the much-needed breakthrough during their IPL 2025 match against PBKS. The match is being held at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International cricket stadium, where Archer first dismissed Priyansh Aarya on his first ball, and then towards the end of the first over, he took Shreyas Iyer's wicket. He similarly dismissed Iyer to that of Priayansh Arya, who the franchise roped in for a whopping amount of Rs 12.5 crore during the mega auction last year.

Iyer had smashed Archer for two consecutive fours during the first over, but Archer then bounced back and was seen celebrating wildly after dismissing the PBKS skipper.

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Iyer has been in sublime form in the ongoing tournament. He scored a match-winning knock of 97 runs during their tournament opener against Gujarat Titans last month and in their next match against LSG, he scored an unbeaten knock of 52 runs.

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After dismissing Iyer, Archer joined Shane Warne in an elite club. He had become the fifth bowler to have taken 50 wickets for the Rajasthan-based franchise. Archer is playing in his 39th IPL match and has now taken 50 wickets under his kitty.

Yuzvendra Chahal has the record of taking the most wickets for RR in the IPL. He had played 46 matches for them between 2022 to 2024 and had taken 66 wickets. Besides him, the other bowlers who had taken wickets for them were Siddharth Trivedi (65 wickets), Shane Watson (61 wickets), and Warne (57 wickets).

Most wickets in IPL for Rajasthan Royals

POSITION PLAYER MATCHES WICKETS BEST FIGURES
1. Yuzvendra Chahal 46 66 5/40
2. Siddharth Trivedi 76 65 4/25
3. Shane Watson 78 61 3/10
4. Shane Warne 55 57 3/21
5. Jofra Archer 39 50 3/15
6. James Faulkner 42 47 5/16

Shane Warne, who led the team from the front and helped them win their first title way back in 2008, had become the first bowler to take 50 wickets in this tournament for them.

Archer’s record for RR

Archer played his first IPL match for the Rajasthan-based franchise way back in 2018. He had featured in 10 matches that year and took 15 wickets. And then in the next season, he took 11 wickets after playing in as many matches. Archer, who helped England lift the 2019 ODI World Cup title, had taken 20 wickets after playing in 14 IPL matches in 2020. On the back of his brilliant performance, he was also adjudged the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.

Besides RR, he also featured in five games for MI for three seasons but could only take three wickets.