Before the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, Rajasthan Royals played a practice match on 25 March 2022. Two of his teams (Team Blue and Team Pink) took part in this match. In this practice match, Caribbean batsman Shimron Hetmyer landed for Team Blue. He lashed out at the bowlers of Team Pink. He played an unbeaten innings of 70 runs in 37 balls at a strike rate of around 190.
However, Devdutt Padikkal’s 67 and Riyan Parag’s 49 not out weighed on his innings and Yuzvendra Chahal’s team (Team Pink) won by 15 runs. Chahal took 2 wickets giving 30 runs in 4 overs in this match. Riyan Parag scored an unbeaten 49 off 27 balls. At the same time, Kuldeep Sen of Team Blue presented his bowling performance. He took 3 wickets for 15 runs in 3 overs. Karun Nair of Team Blue also played a brilliant innings. He scored 31 runs in 19 balls.
Team Pink, who came to bat first in the practice match, scored 184 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the target, Team Blue could only manage 169 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Padikkal for Team Pink and Hetmyer for Team Blue was the highest scorer.
This is Hetmyer’s fourth season in the IPL. He played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2019. He was a part of Delhi Capitals in IPL 2020 and 2021. Yuzvendra Chahal was a part of Royal Challengers Bangalore from last season. Chahal from Team Pink and Kuldeep Sen from Team Blue were the most successful.
Let us tell you that in IPL 2022, Rajasthan Royals will start their campaign with the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 29 March. This match will be played at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune from 7:30 pm. This season, the command of Rajasthan Royals is in the hands of Sanju Samson. Ravichandran Ashwin in the team, joss butler And legends like Trent Boult are also included.