GT vs PBKS IPL 2022: Who won today's IPL match? Man of the Match, Point Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap

Who won today’s IPL match?: Table toppers Gujarat Titans (GT) locked horns with Punjab Kings at DY Patil Stadium in the match 48th of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. The Hardik Pandya finally tasted the defeated as the Punjab based franchise thumped them by 8 wickets to register their 5th win of the season.

Today’s IPL match result

GT won the toss and opted to bat first against PBKS. It wasn’t a fruitful outing for them with the bat as they struggled with their timing and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Sai Sudarshan was the lone warrior for his side as he scored unbeaten 65 runs and helped his side post a fighting total of 142 runs on the board. Kagiso Rabada was the star with the ball for his side as took 4 wickets for 33 runs.

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Chasing the target, the move to open with Shikhar Dhawan and Jonny Bairstow didn’t work for PBKS as they lost the latter early for just 1 run. Dhawan and Bhanuka Rajapaksa (40) then did the bulk of scoring for their side and scored 87 runs for the partnership. Liam Livingstone then provided finishing touch for his side with his knock of 30 runs in just 10 balls and helped his side win the match by 8 wickets.

Man of the match today IPL

Punjab Kings (PBKS) pacer Kagiso Rabad was awarded Player of the Match in today’s IPL 2022 encounter against Gujarat Titans. The South Africa pacer returned with the exceptional figures of 4/33 to help his side restrict the opposition to the total of just 145 runs. He removed the likes of Wriddhiman Saha, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan and Lockie Ferguson and also bowled brilliantly at the death.

Today IPL highlights

You can catch highlights of today’s IPL 2022 encounter between Gujarat Titans (GT) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) that took place at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai on official website of IPL. Here’s the link to the same:

IPL schedule

The next match of the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is slated to take place between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at MCA Stadium in Pune on Wednesday (4th May).

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IPL 2022 Point Table

Teams	P	W	L	Pts	Nrr
Gujarat Titans	10	8	2	16	+0.158
Lucknow Super Giants	10	7	3	14	+0.397
Rajasthan Royals	10	6	4	12	+0.340
Sunrisers Hyderabad	9	5	4	10	+0.471
Punjab Kings	10	5	5	10	-0.229
Royal Challengers Bangalore	10	5	5	10	-0.558
Delhi Capitals	9	4	5	8	+0.587
Kolkata Knight Riders	10	4	6	8	+0.060
Chennai Super Kings	9	3	6	6	-0.407
Mumbai Indians	9	1	8	2	-0.836

IPL 2022 Orange Cap

POS	Player	Mat	Inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100	50
1	Jos Buttler	10	10	588	116	65.33	150.76	3	3
2	KL Rahul	10	10	451	103*	56.38	145.01	2	2
3	Shikhar Dhawan	10	10	369	88*	46.13	124.66	0	3
4	Abhishek Sharma	9	9	324	75	36.00	134.43	0	2
5	Shreyas Iyer	10	10	324	85	36.00	133.33	0	2

IPL 2022 Purple Cap

POS	Player	Mat	Inns	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR
1	Yuzvendra Chahal	10	10	19	40/5	15.31	7.27	12.63
2	Kuldeep Yadav	9	9	17	14/4	15.82	8.23	11.52
3	Kagiso Rabada	9	9	17	33/4	16.05	8.27	11.64
4	T Natarajan	9	9	17	10/3	17.82	8.65	12.35
5	Umesh Yadav	10	10	15	23/4	19.06	7.15	16.00