IPL 2023, Rajasthan Royals on Thursday Kolkata Knight Riders Has given a crushing defeat by 9 wickets at his home ground. With this victory, the Rajasthan team has taken a long jump and reached number three in the points table. Rajasthan now has 12 points in 12 matches with 6 wins. Two big records were also made against KKR. RR’s Yuzvendra Chahal became the highest wicket-taker in IPL, while Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the fastest fifty.
Yuzvendra Chahal made this record
Rajasthan Royals star bowler Yuzvendra Chahal wrote the script of KKR’s defeat. He got the first wicket in the form of in-form batsman Nitish Rana. Chahal did not stop after that, he took four wickets in this match. In this match itself, Yuzvendra became the highest wicket-taker in the history of IPL. He got his 184th wicket as Rana and broke Dwayne Bravo’s record of 183 wickets.
IPL Fastest Fifty: Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the fastest half-century in IPL, broke Rahul’s record of 50 runs in 13 balls
Gujarat Titans on top
If you look at the equation of the points table of this season of IPL, defending champion Hardik Pandya’s Gujarat Titans are on top in the matches held so far. Gujrat has won 8 of their 11 matches and earned 16 points. MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings is second in this table with 15 points. At the same time, after the victory of Rajasthan, Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians have slipped to number four with 12 points.
delhi capitals slip
KL Rahul has been ruled out of the rest of the IPL season due to injury. In his place, Krunal Pandya is captaining Lucknow Super Giants. Now it is the responsibility of Krunal to take Lucknow to the playoffs. At present Lucknow is at number five in the table. RCB is at number six. After the defeat from Rajasthan, KKR’s team has reached number seven. Shikhar Dhawan’s Punjab Kings is at number eight. Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals are at number nine and tenth respectively, for whom it is now finding difficult to make a place in the playoffs.
