Cricket Highlights, 27 May: IPL 2022 – Qualifier 2 (RR vs RCB)

RR vs RCB Match Highlights

Rajasthan Royals (RR) has picked up a remarkable 7-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) with 11 balls to spare thanks to a superb century by Jos Buttler at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad in the IPL 2022 qualifiers 2 on Friday. After winning this match, RR has reached the final as the second finalist of the tournament.

After winning the toss, RR captain Sanju Samson decided to field and sent RCB to bat first. Despite scoring a huge 207 runs in the eliminator match, RCB came under pressure from the start to bat in this match. In the 2nd over of the innings, Virat Kohli returned to the dressing room with 7 runs. As a result, RCB could not score more than 46 runs even though they did not lose any more wickets in 6 overs of the power play.

On the second wicket, captain Faf du Plessis and Rajat Patidar put on a 70-run stand. Du Plessis was dismissed for 25 off 27 balls with the team standing at 79 runs. Rajat Patidar, who scored a century in the previous match, also got a half-century in this match. He returned to the pavilion scoring 58 off 42 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes.

Glenn Maxwell made 24 off 13 balls. Besides, Mahipal Lomror scored 8 runs, Dinesh Karthik scored 6 and Shahbaz Ahmed remained unbeaten on 12 runs. In the end, RCB managed to score 157 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs under the controlled bowling of RR bowlers.

Prasidh Krishna and Obed McCoy took 3 wickets each for RR. Besides, Trent Boult and Ravichandran Ashwin took one wicket each.

Chasing a challenging target of 158 runs, Buttler made a pair of 61 runs in 5.1 overs with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Jaiswal was dismissed for 21 off 13 balls with a catch by Kohli. Buttler then put on a 52-run stand with captain Sanju Samson. Samson was dismissed for 23 off 21 balls.

Devdutt Padikkal was dismissed for 9 off 12 balls. Buttler then did the rest of the work to win with Shimron Hetmyer. The English batsman hit a huge six off the first ball of the 19th over to bring the victory for Rajasthan.

Batting for 158 runs, Jos Buttler scored 106 runs alone. Playing 60 balls, his innings was arranged with 10 boundaries and 6 huge sixes. Buttler’s remarkable batting performance in the IPL this year can only be understood by looking at his statistics.

With this ton, he has scored four centuries in this IPL alone. He has scored 824 runs in 16 matches at an average of 58.85. He has batted with a strike rate of 151.47. He has scored 4 half-centuries with 4 centuries. Undoubtedly he is the owner of the Orange Cap (the highest run-getter honor) of this year’s IPL.

RR has defeated RCB by 7 wickets with 11 balls to spare, relying on Buttler’s remarkable century. For RCB, Josh Hazlewood took 2 wickets and Wanindu Hasaranga took 1 wicket.

The Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals will take on each other in the finale of IPL 2022 at the same venue tomorrow.

RR vs RCB Scoreboard

Royal Challengers Bangalore – 157/8 (20.0)

Rajasthan Royals – 161/3 (18.1)

Result – Rajasthan Royals won by 7 wickets

Player of the match – Jos Buttler

RR vs RCB Reward of the Match