In the 47th match of IPL 2022, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won the match by 7 wickets with Rajasthan Royals (RR) due to great performance in batting and bowling. After winning this match, KKR was moved up to the 7th position with 8 points in the IPL 2022 points table. RR was placed at the 3rd position with 12 points in the IPL 2022 points table.
Earlier KKR won the toss and chose to bowl first thus RR first batted and made a low score of 152/5 (20) due to great bowled by Tim Southee 2/46 (4), Umesh Yadav 1/24 (4), and Anukul Roy 1/28 (4). Sanju Samson 54 (49), Shimron Hetmyer 27* (13), and Jos Butler 22 (25) were good batting from the RR side. After this inning, RR set a target of 153 runs in 20 overs for KKR to win this match.
During chasing, KKR loses 3 wickets and won the match easily by 7 wickets with RR due to great batted by Nitish Rana 48* (37), Rinku Singh 42* (23), and Shreyas Iyer 34 (32). Trent Boult 1/25 (4), Kuldeep Singh 1/28 (3.1), and Prasidh Krishna 1/37 (4) were good bowling from the RR side.
Rinku Singh (KKR), 42* (23), was declared as the Player of the Match due to his great performance in batting.
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