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In the 68th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, Rajasthan Royals (RR) defeated Chennai Super Kings (CSK) by fiv🌞e wickets at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Friday. With the victory, the Royals reached second place💮 in the points table.
Chasing a paltry target of 151, the contest went down to the wire, whereᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ RR eventually managed to seal the win with two balls to spare and five wickets in ha🌜nd.
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ravichandran Ashwin were the chief architects behind the successful chase. While Yashasvi scored a brilliant 59 off 44 deliveries, Ashwin remained unbeaten at 40 to take the R🔜oyals home.
Earlier, Moeen Ali guided Chennai to a respect🅘able total as the rest of the batters failed to make a mark. The left-handed batter smacked a brilliant knock of 93 runs from 57 deliveries with the help of 16 boundaries, including three sixes.
For the Royals, Obed McCoy and Yuzvendra Chahal were the pi🦂ck of the bowlers. McCoy bagged a two-꧒wicket haul for 20 runs in his quota of 4 overs. Similarly, Chahal also took two scalps while conceding 26 runs in 4 overs.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Playoffs Qualification ✅
No. 2⃣ in the Points Table ✅Congratulations to the -led . 👏 👏
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
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— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals)
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
all the 𒁃way to no. 2⃣ on the points table! 💪, time to celebrate this 5-wick🅠et victory in with your favourite GIF! ��
— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia)
The top two bowling units in the have finished at 1 & 2. If this doesn’t tell us the importance of fo♎cusing on making a robust bowling unit in T20s…nothing will.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Last time RR finished in the ꧋Top 2,🃏 they won the IPL.
For the tea🐬ms who⭕ qualify for the playoffs, RR is the only one who are former IPL champions
— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang)
Congratulations RR for playing the positive brand of cricket. Quality 5 bowlers a🌠lways help༺s.
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Congratulations for sealing the second spot on t🐓he table. Well batted 👏 It’s delightful to see you filling in different batting spots in the team.
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Congratulations for making into the play-offs after 4 years, did a fantastic job by investing two best spinners from India, Hetmyer in the middle order – two areas they struggled in the last few years and covered some issues with these three players.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
🤩🏏 VAATHI TO THE RESCUE! Not only with the⛦ ball,ꦑ but we have seen some of the best of Ashwin with the bat this season!
�� He takes them a♏cross the line and to♊ the qualifier 1!
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— The Bharat Army (@thebharatarmy)
