In the 31st match of IPL 2022, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won the match by 18 runs with Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) due to great performance in batting and bowling. After winning this match, RCB was placed at the 2nd position with 10 points in the IPL 2022 points table. LSG was placed at the 4th position with 8 points in the IPL 2022 points table after losing this match.

Earlier LSG won the toss and chose to bowl first thus RCB first batted and made a good score of 181/6 (20) due to great batted by Faf du Plessis 96 (64), Shahbaz Ahmed 26 (22), and Glenn Maxwell 23 (11). Jason Holder 2/25 (4), Dushmantha Chemeera 2/31 (3), and Krunal Pandya 1/29 (4) were good bowling from the LSG side. After this inning, RCB set a target of 182 runs in 20 overs for LSG to win this match.

During chasing, LSG only scored 163/8 and lose this match by 18 runs with RCB due to great bowled by Josh Hazlewood 4/25 (4), Harshal Patel 2/47 (4), and Glenn Maxwell 1/11 (2), and Mohammad Siraj 1/31 (4). Krunal Pandya 42 (28), K.L. Rahul 30 (24), and Marcus Stoinis 24 (15) were good batting from the LSG side.

Faf du Plessis (RCB), 96 (64), was declared as the Player of the Match due to his great performance in batting.