RCB vs RR Man of the Match today IPL: Who was awarded Man of the Match in Bangalore vs Rajasthan 2022 IPL match?

Dixit Bhargav | 26/04/2022
RCB vs RR Man of the Match today IPL: Who was awarded Man of the Match in Bangalore vs Rajasthan 2022 IPL match?

RCB vs RR Man of the Match: The batter from Rajasthan Royals won his maiden Indian Premier League match award tonight.

During the 39th match of the ongoing 15th season of the Indian Premier League between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals in Pune, Rajasthan Royals beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 29 runs. Having won their sixth match of the season, Sanju Samson’s team has reached to the top of the points table.

Royal Challengers, who would’ve backed themselves to do much better than scoring 115/10 in 19.3 overs in a 145-run chase on most occasions, faltered throughout the second innings to lose wickets at regular intervals.

Included into the Playing XI for this match, Royals fast bowler Kuldeep Sen was the pick of their bowlers with bowling figures of 3.3-0-20-4. While spinner Ravichandran Ashwin picked three wickets, another pacer in Prasidh Krishna picked a couple of wickets to contribute in a clinical victory at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium tonight.

RCB vs RR Man of the Match today IPL match

Asked to bat first by Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis (23), Rajasthan wouldn’t have scored 144/8 in 20 overs had it not been for batter Riyan Parag top-scoring with his 56* (31) comprising of three fours and four sixes.

Coming in to bat at No. 6 in the 10th over, Parag’s one-man show powered him to a career-best score in the biggest T20 tournament across the world on the back of a ninth T20 and second IPL half-century.

“A bit of satisfaction [at doing well]. The Royals have shown faith in me for the last three years, and I am paying them back bit by bit. I love pressure and I am just showcasing my abilities,” Parag told Star Sports during the post-match presentation ceremony.

“During the time-out, Sanga [Kumar Sangakkara, team director] came out and we agreed that 140 was a good total on this wicket. We decided to go big in the last two overs. I wanted to target [Wanindu] Hasaranga in his second over, but we lost wickets, and so I had to strategize and go after [Josh] Hazlewood and Harshal [Patel].”

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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