New Delhi. On Monday, such a sight was seen at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, which had never happened before in the history of the league. Actually, on the 15th birthday of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the league’s first champion Rajasthan Royals (RR) faced Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). In this match between the two teams, Jos Buttler of Rajasthan first scored his second century of this season. After that leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal (Yuzvendra Chahal Hat-trick) surprised everyone by taking 3 wickets in 3 balls. After this feat, Yuzvendra Chahal completed his hat-trick. Butler’s century and Chahal’s hat-trick was amazing that Rajasthan defeated Kolkata by seven runs in this match. Whatever was seen in the match between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Kolkata Knight Riders on Monday was the first time in the history of IPL that a century and a hat-trick were also taken in the same match.
This record was recorded in Chahal’s name
Rajasthan had put up a wall of 218 runs for the victory in front of Kolkata’s team in the match. It was believed that the match could slip out of the hands of Rajasthan. When Chahal took four wickets in the 17th over with a hat-trick, the whole match turned upside down. In his over, Chahal completed his hat-trick by dismissing Kolkata captain Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Mavi and Pat Cummins. Shreyas Iyer was dismissed LBW, while Mavi was caught by Riyan Parag, Pat Cummins was caught behind the wicket by Sanju Samson. Chahal has now become the first bowler to take a hat-trick this season on the basis of his impressive performance in this match. He took 5 wickets for 40 runs in 4 overs in this match. In such a situation, he got the Man of the Match award.
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Becomes 21st bowler to take hat-trick in IPL
Chahal has now become the 21st bowler to take a hat-trick in the IPL and the fifth Rajasthan Royals bowler on the basis of his impressive performance in the Rajasthan Royals (RR) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) match. Before Chahal, Ajit Chandila, Praveen Tambe, Shane Watson and Shreyas Gopal have written names in this list by taking hat-trick for Rajasthan team in IPL. Along with Chahal, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Amit Mishra, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Azil Chandela, Praveen Tambe, Axar Patel, Jaydev Unadkat, Shreyas Gopal and Harshal Patel are also Indian bowlers who have taken hat-trick in IPL. Mishra has done this feat the most three times.