In the 30th match of IPL 2022, Rajasthan Royals (RR) won the close match by 7 runs with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) due to the hat-trick of Yuzvendra Chahal 5/40 (4) and the great century of Jos Butler 103 (61). After winning this match, RR was placed at the 2nd position with 8 points in the IPL 2022 points table. KKR was placed at the 6th position with 6 points in the IPL 2022 points table after losing this match.
Earlier KKR won the toss and chose to bowl first thus RR first batted and made a huge score of 217/5 (20) due to great batted by Jos Butler 103 (61), Sanju Samson 38 (19), and Shimron Hetmyer 26* (13). Sunil Narine 2/21 (4), Andre Russell 1/29 (2), and Shivam Mavi 1/34 (4) were good bowling from the KKR side. After this inning, RR set a huge target of 218 runs in 20 overs for KKR to win this match.
During chasing, KKR was all out at 210/10 (19.4) and lose this match by only 7 runs with RR due to great bowled by hat-trick man Yuzvendra Chahal 5/40 (4), Obed McCoy 2/41 (3.4), and Ravichandran Ashwin 1/38 (4). Shreyas Iyer 85 (51), Aaron Finch 58 (28), and Umesh Yadav 21 (9) were good batting from the KKR side.
Yuzvendra Chahal (RR), 5/40 (4), was declared as the Player of the Match due to his great performance in bowling with a hat-trick.
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