KKR vs RR IPL 2022: Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets in the 47th match of IPL 2022. With this win, KKR have broken the losing streak. Kolkata had to face 5 consecutive defeats before this match. The team won the last match in the Tata IPL 2022 against Mumbai Indians on 6 April. In this match, Rajasthan Royals, batting first, set a target of 153 runs in front of KKR on the basis of captain Sanju Samson’s half-century. The team achieved this score with 5 balls remaining due to the excellent batting of Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh. Kolkata is on the 7th position after this victory, while Rajasthan is in the third place.
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KKR captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bowl first. Buttler could not show amazing for Rajasthan Royals today. He was dismissed after scoring 22 runs in 25 balls, while before that Padikkal had returned to the pavilion on a personal score of 2. After a slow start, captain Sanju Samson scored a half-century of 54 runs, while in the end Shimron Hetmyer played an unbeaten innings of 27 runs off 13 balls to take the team to a score of 152. Tim Southee took the highest two wickets for KKR.
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Chasing the target, Kolkata Knight Riders did not have a good start. Aaron Finch was dismissed for 4 and Baba Inderjit scored 15 runs. After this, the responsibility of scoring runs was handled by captain Shreyas Iyer and Nitish Rana. There was a half-century partnership between the two players for the third wicket. Iyer was shown the way to the pavilion by Boult on a personal score of 34.
After this, Rinku Singh, who came to bat, supported Nitish Rana and there was a half-century partnership between the two for the fourth wicket. Rana scored 48 and Rinku played an unbeaten innings of 42 runs to give victory to the team. Nitish Rana hit the winning six off the first ball of the last over.