Rajasthan win, secure a spot in the qualifiers

In the 68th match of IPL 15, Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets. With this win, Rajasthan's team has reached the playoffs after 4 years. The last time this team reached the playoffs was in 2018. Ashwin played a match-winning innings for Rajasthan and scored 40 runs in just 23 balls.

Hardik vs Samson in the first qualifier

Rajasthan will face Gujarat in the first qualifier of IPL 2022. Gujarat team led by Hardik Pandya is at number one in the points table. The first qualifier match will be played on 24 May. With the win against Chennai, Rajasthan have 18 points. At the same time, Gujarat has 20 points. After 2008, Rajasthan's team has reached the top-2.

Brilliant batting from Yashasvi

Rajasthan opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 59 runs in 44 balls in the match. His bat hit 8 fours and a six. Moeen Ali scored the most runs for CSK. He played an innings of 93 runs in 57 balls. At the same time, Yuzvendra Chahal and Obed McCoy took 2-2 wickets for Rajasthan.

Dhoni's slow batting

CSK captain Dhoni batted very slowly in the match and his bat scored only 26 runs in 28 balls. At one point it seemed that Chennai would score runs beyond 200, but wickets kept falling for the team at regular intervals in the middle overs. Ambati Rayudu and Jagadeesan did not do anything special with the bat. In such a situation, Dhoni came on the field. It looked like he would score fast, but he played 28 balls and hit only one four and one six.

storm of moin

Moeen Ali, who came to bat at number three for Chennai Super Kings, has created panic with his bat. He scored 18 runs in the fourth over off famous Krishna. During this, 3 fours and a six came off his bat. At the same time, in the fifth over too, Moin's bat spoke a lot and hit Ashwin for two fours and a six.

Trent Boult's Moeen, who came to bowl after these two overs, put the class well and scored 26 runs in one over. During this, 5 fours and 1 six came off his bat. He also completed his fifty in just 19 balls, this is the second fastest fifty in IPL 2022.

Boult gave a blow to CSK in the very first over

Trent came to bowl the first over for Rajasthan and he got Rituraj Gaikwad caught by Sanju Samson on the last ball of the first over. Gaikwad could only score 2 runs in the match.

Playing XI of both the teams

Rajasthan- Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Pranandik Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Obed McCoy

Chennai- Rituraj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, N Jagadeesan, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Mitchell Santner, Prashant Solanki, Simarjit Singh, Mathisha Pathirana, Mukesh Choudhary