Rajasthan Royals celebrate victory against Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2022
Shimron Hetmyer lived up to its Rs 8.5 cr price tag with the first six hitting exhibitions Yuzvendra Chahal And Trent Bout displayed his magic with the ball as Rajasthan Royals beat Lucknow Super Kings by three runs IPL Play here on Sunday.
Invited to bat, West Indies star batsman Hetmyer made an unbeaten 36-ball 59 to take RR from 67 to 165 for six in 20 overs. Trent Boult (2/30) then struck twice in a sensational opening over, while Chahal (4/41) took four wickets to achieve the feat of claiming 150 IPL victims but Marcus Stoinis He raised hopes of a turnaround in his innings of 38 not out in 17 balls with the help of two fours and four sixes.
But Kuldeep Sen, making his IPL debut, showed great nerves, defending 15 runs in the final over as RR restricted LSG to 162 for eight.
With this win, RR bounced back from their four-wicket loss to RCB in the previous match to take the top spot in the IPL standings, while LSG slipped to fifth place.
Defending a total, Boult produces a quick late inswinging yorker to dismiss it. KL Rahul For a first-ball duck, Krishnappa Gautam was trapped in the opening over as LSG slipped to 1 for 2.
Then the famous Krishna got rid of Jason Holder Back off a length delivery, which takes a top-edge and delivers the ball to Ravichandran Ashwin at mid-on. Madhya Pradesh pacer Sen made an impressive IPL debut as he scored 52 for four to leave LSG to Deepak Hooda.
The cunning Chahal swung into action when he first lashed out at young Aayush Badoni (5), and then there was quinton de kock (39) Riyan Parag is dismissed and it hits the leg-stump back. Krunal Pandya (22) As RR kept a foot in the door.
With 34 needed off 12 balls, Stoinis scored Krishna’s 19 in the final over, but Sen held his nerves and made his debut for just one run in the first four balls.
east, joss butler (13) and Devdutt Padikkal (29) added 42 runs in five overs, but they made 67 for four in one leg, losing three wickets in 15 balls. If Butler was cast by Avask Khan in his first ball, Gowtham produced a two-wicket burst, removing Devdutt Padikkal and Rasi van der Dussen (4) in the span of five balls to a track where the ball was caught. Was.
Padikkal, who replaced Yashasvi Jaiswal at the top, won dangerously before paying the price of a reverse sweep as his top-edge fell into the safe hands of the holder, also giving Gautam a first-ball wicket. The left-hander survives an lbw appeal in the first over mismantha chimera Before being dropped by Ravi Bishnoi (0/29).
Sanju Samson (13) played two good shots before being trapped on the pads by a full toss from Jason Holder (2/50). RR could have been in more danger but Kunal Pandya dropped a dolly at long-on to relieve Hetmyer in the 14th over.
This allowed West Indies to join hands with Ashwin to rebuild the innings with a 68-run stand before the latter was strategically retired by RR Camp in the slog overs. West Indies paced their innings well before going for shots at the back end as RR scored 50 runs in the last three overs.
Hetmyer launched compatriot Holder in the 18th over, lofted him over deep mid-wicket to bring him to a 50-run stand, before sending a fine down leg-side and then smashing it to the ground. 18 runs were scored in this over. He hit two sixes off Avesh, before launching Holder for another maximum in the last over.
Ryan Parag, who came after Ashwin’s dismissal, also collected an over deep square leg as there were 16 runs in each of the last two overs.