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Rajasthan Royals (RR) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in a close, but high-scoring, encounter at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumꦐbai on Monday, April 19.
The Orange Cap and the Purple Cap holders shone for RR in their thrilling victory. While Jos Buttler slammed his second century of IPL 2022 season, Yuzvendra Chahal picked up a five-wicket haul including a hat-tri🌞ck.
The match was a cliff-hanger where the pendulum tilted from one team to another as KKR were sailing through at one stage reaching the 100-run mark in just 8.3 overs with Shreyas Iyer and Aaron Finch batting at the crease. But wickets from Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin and Prasidh Krishna brought Sanju Samson’s RR back in the game.
Brief scores: Rajasthan R𒊎oyals 217-5 in 20 overs (Jos Buttler 103; Sunil Narine 2/21) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 210 in 19.4 overs (Shreyas Iyer 8𝕴5, Aaron Finch 58; Yuzvendra Chahal 5/40) by 7 runs.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Can't get this game out of my head. Buttler 103(61), Samson+Hetmyer 64(32), Narine, an insane 2-21(4), the Cummins boundary catch, Finch 58(28), Shreyas 85(51), Umesh 21(9), that Ashwin ball to Russell, the Chahal 4-in-an-over, McCoy on debut….
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Unbelievable revs on that hat-trick ball by what guts &a🐲mp; precision . Some bowler 🔥
— Shreevats goswami (@shreevats1)
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19)
Chahalllll 🔥🔥🔥 ♥️
— Kuldeep yadav (@imkuldeep18)
five wicket⛦ haul and his hat🔯trick was an equally important factor in winning this incredible game. Kudos to KKR for fighting till the end.
— parthiv patel (@parthiv9)
Brave fight by but the over by helped see th🦂is through! The heroics of and were negated by that fantastic spell! Not many bowlers can achieve what you did. Congratulations🔜 on the win
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
What a game-changing spell by ! We've witnessed the first hat-trick of the season. Loved the pose after your hat-trick. 🤣
— Yusuf Pathan (@iamyusufpathan)
Best T20 player in the world
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)
Chahal. Simply Outstanding . Ball hi nahi Rajast𝔍han ki kismat bhi spin kar di.
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
Bowling the 17th over with game on the line, after being hit for runs in your first 3 overs aꦍnd then to return with a 2-run-4-wicket over including a hat-trick! Lion hearted stuff ��🏼 Congratulations 👏🏽 ꦗ
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
The best match of the TATA𒁃 so far? Heart ❤️ stopping drama! hold their nerve v in a thriller! worth his weight in gold! irrepressible again!
— Alan Wilkins (@alanwilkins22)
Best game of an already ridiculously entertaining tonight. Great win for the heartbreak for MoM has to be Yuzi for his bowling on such a good batting track but was immense. I’m ꦉout of breath!
— Graeme Swann (@Swannyg66)
