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Rajasthan Royals (RR) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in a close, but high-scꦬoring, e💖ncounter at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai 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 pickedꦰ up a five-wicket haul including 𓃲a hat-trick.
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 Royals 217-5 in 20 overs (Jos B🐎uttler 103; Sunil Narine 2/21) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 210 in 19.4 overs (Shreyas Iyer 85, 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 & precision . S💟ome bowler💞 🔥
— Shreevats goswami (@shreevats1)
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19)
Chahalllll 🔥🔥🔥 ♥️
— Kuldeep yadav (@imkuldeep18)
five wicket haul and his hattrඣick was an equally important f🔯actor 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 this through! The heroics of and were negated by tha🍷t fantastic spell! Not many bowlers can achie🌟ve 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. Simpl🎃y Outstanding . Ball hi nahi Rajasthan 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 and then to return with a 2-run-4-wicket over𒁏 including a hat-trick! Lion hearted stuff 🙌🏼 Congratulations 👏🏽
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
൩The best match 🦩of the TATA 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 fo𓆉r the heartbreak for MoM has to be Yuzi for his bowling on such a good batting track but was immense. I’m out o♓f breath!
— Graeme Swann (@Swannyg66)
