IPL 2022, Shreyas Iyer’s KKR met Sanju Samson’s RR in the 47th match of the ongoing IPL season. KKR won the toss and decided to bowl first and got hold of their plans pretty well as they managed to stop the inform team RR only for 152 runs as they got the early wicket of Devdutt Padikkal and Jos Buttler. With Sanju Samson’s blistering half century Rajasthan managed to put up a fighting total on the board.
The second innings started well for Rajasthan as they got the early breakthrough in the form of Aron Finch. B Indrajith also had to go back after a short innings. The innings was later anchored by Shreyas with the support of Nitish Rana. But the skipper lost his wicket to Boult in the 13th over.
The innings was later carried by Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh. Rinku Singh who played his first match for KKR in IPL 2022 just the previous match, played a blistering winning knock to take the team home. Singh’s fiery 42 off 23 helped KKR to win their 4th match by 7 wickets and 5 balls left. His innings consisted of 6 boundaries and a six. Nitish Rana also played a fine innings of 37 ball 48.
Rinku Singh was awarded the Man of the Match for his beautiful finish. KKR are now 7th in the table with 4 wins and 6 losses.
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