IPL 2022, Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals Highlights: Parag, bowlers guide RR to 29-run win over RCB. Cricket News – Times of India

Pune: Riyan Parag Scored a match-defining unbeaten half-century before living up to his reputation in the hands of the bowling unit Rajasthan Royals 29 run win Royal Challengers Bangalore In a match of the Indian Premier League on Tuesday.
Parag (56 not out in 31 balls) single-handedly scored 144 for 8 with his unbeaten half-century, his highest score in the IPL. He hit three fours and four sixes in his innings.
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Parag marshalled RR’s lower order brilliantly and hit a four and two big sixes off Harshal Patel in the final over to take RR to a decent total after being sent into bat.
But RCB’s chase never went as far as RR bowlers led by Young Kuldeep Sen (4/20), Ravichandran Ashwin (3/17) and the famous Krishna (2/23) bundled out their opponents for 115 in 19.3 overs.

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Starting the innings on the first ball with two consecutive ducks, Virat Kohli Started on a cage note but lit up the stadium and raised the hopes of his fans when he hit two back-to-back boundaries off Trent Boult to start his innings.
But as is happening in the tournament, Kohli once again flopped when a famous Krishna bouncer caught him in the next over.
RCB’s troubles increased in the seventh over when Kuldeep Sen, who replaced Obed McCoy in the playing XI, took two big wickets of captain Faf du Plessis (23) and Glenn Maxwell (0) in successive deliveries.

But Shahbaz Ahmed somehow retained his wicket to prevent Sen from taking a hat-trick.
With RCB struggling at 38 for three in the seventh over, it was a match from here.
The Indian domestic players – Rajat Patidar (16) and Suyash Prabhudesai – failed miserably, leaving the difficult task of finishing the innings once again on the shoulders of Dinesh Karthik (6).
But it was not Karthik’s day as he was run out cheaply.
Ahmed (17 off 27) was also not in his rhythm and struggled to hit the ball.

Earlier, RCB’s decision to bowl first yielded good results as they picked up wickets at regular intervals, leaving no scope for RR to build a big partnership.
Josh Hazlewood (2/19), Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva (2/23) and Mohammad Siraj (2/30) took two wickets each to suppress the Royals’ batting line-up.
Devdutt Padikkal (7) and Jos Buttler (8) failed to give RR a good start and the decision to promote Ashwin (17) also backfired.
Siraj accounted for both Padikkal and Ashwin in his successive overs, while Hazlewood picked up the all-important wicket of Butler, which was caught inches off the ground by Siraj, as the batsman failed a short delivery, leading to mid- On its pulling done.
Sanju Samson (27 off 21 balls) and Daryl Mitchell (16) tried to put on a partnership, putting on a 35-run stand for the fourth wicket, before de Silva went through the RR captain’s door as the batsman pulled through an extraordinary reverse sweep. was taken.
Mitchell failed to move forward and tried to act as an anchor holding one end and combined with Parag to add 31 runs.
But the New Zealander’s struggle was cut short by Hazlewood as, in a desperate attempt to break the chains, he gave Maxwell a simple catch at long-on.
At 100 for 5 after 15 overs, RR’s attempt to post a decent target was dealt another blow as Shimron Hetmyer (3) fell to de Silva and went for a slog sweep.
Boult (5) was at the forefront, a brilliant catch by Kohli at midwicket off Harshal Patel.
RR’s struggle can be gauged from the fact that he failed to hit boundaries for seven consecutive overs from the 12th to the 18th over. Parag finally broke it in the 19th over by picking Hazlewood over extra cover fence.