RR vs KKR: Jos Buttler hundred, Yuzvendra Chahal hat-trick take RR to No.2 in points table
India Today
IPL 2022, RR vs KKR: Jos Buttler hit 103 off 61 balls and Yuzvendra Chahal picked a hat-trick and finished with 5 for 40 off 4 overs as Rajasthan Royals defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 7 runs at the Brabourne Stadium on Monday.
Jos Buttler starred with a 61-ball 103 while Yuzvendra Chahal picked his maiden IPL hat-trick and five-wicket haul as Rajasthan Royals beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 7 runs at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Monday. Buttler became only the 6th batter in IPL history to hit more than one hundred in a single season as RR moved to No.2 in the points table.
Jos Buttler, the Orange Cap holder, had scored 100 against Mumbai Indians on April 2. On Monday night, he carried on his red-hot form to bully KKR whose bowlers apart from Sunil Narine (2 for 21) and Shivam Mavi (1 for 34), looked dazed on a great batting pitch.
RR vs KKR: IPL 2022 Highlights
Yuzvendra Chahal, who had missed out on a hat-trick earlier in the season, finally achieved the feat in a game-changing 17th over of the KKR innings. He finished with figures of 5 for 40 off 4 overs.
KKR did reasonably well in the death overs, thanks to the 18th and 19th overs bowled by Narine and Mavi respectively. At one point, it looked like RR would get a lot more than 200. In the final over, Shimron Hetmyer (26 not out) hit Andre Russell for two sixes and a four to give RR 217 for 5. At the end of the 17th over, RR were 189 for 3 - KKR did well to give away only 28 runs in the last 3 overs.
Shreyas Iyer would have rued his decision to bowl after winning the toss as he watched Jos Buttler toy with his bowlers. First, Buttler was involved in a 97-run opening stand with Devdutt Padikkal and was then happy to let Sanju Samson smash the ball to all corners in a 19-ball 38.
Buttler has now joined the likes of Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, Hashim Amla, Shane Watson and Shikhar Dhawan to score more than one hundred in the same season.
