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

Who won today’s IPL match?: The 44th game of the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 saw Rajasthan Royals taking on Mumbai Indians in the Mach 44 at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. After losing 8 straight matches, there was finally some light at the end of big tunnel for the Rohit Sharma-led side as they registered their first win of the season. Even though, they came under a bit of pressure during the fag end of the match, dominated most part of it to win the match by 5 wickets.

Today’s IPL match result

Put into bat first, it was a day day where almost every RR batsman struggled with his timing. Jos Buttler looked completely out of sorts initially but he held his nerves well and once he got settled, he took MI bowlers to cleaners. The wicketkeeper batsman scored 67 runs and helped his side post a total of 158 runs on the board. For MI, Riley Meredith was the pick of the bowlers and returned with the figures of 2/24.

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Chasing the target, MI batters came out with a different mood and showed great intent in the power play. Even though they lost Rohit Sharma (2) and Ishan Kishan (26) in the process, but Suryakumar Yadav (51) and Tilak Varma (35) made sure that the scoring rate doesn’t fall behind. But there was a twist in the tale as MI lost both the set batsman within the span of three balls and they found themselves tumbling at 122/4. However, Tim David and Kieron Pollard (10) held their nerves and provided the finishing touch for the team. With 5 runs needed off the last over Pollard was caught but Daniel Sams smashed a six to win the match by 5 wickets.

Man of the match today IPL

Mumbai Indians (MI) batsman Suryakumar Yadav was awarded Player of the Match in today’s IPL 2022 encounter against Rajasthan Royals (RR). The right-hander came to bat at No.3 and played a staggering innings of 51 runs in 39 balls that helped his side chase that target with ease. His knock was laced with 5 fours and 2 sixes and he also stitched a crucial partnership with Tilak Varma.

Today IPL highlights

You can catch highlights of today’s IPL 2022 encounter between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Mumbai Indians (MI) 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 Delhi Capitals (DC) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at Wankhede Stadium in Pune. While the evening game is scheduled to take place between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at MCA Stadium in Pune.

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IPL 2022 Point Table

Teams	P	W	L	Pts	Nrr
Gujarat Titans	9	8	1	16	+0.377
Rajasthan Royals	9	6	3	12	+0.450
Lucknow Super Giants	9	6	3	12	+0.408
Sunrisers Hyderabad	8	5	3	10	+0.600
Royal Challengers Bangalore	10	5	5	10	-0.558
Delhi Capitals	8	4	4	8	+0.695
Punjab Kings	9	4	5	8	-0.470
Kolkata Knight Riders	9	3	6	6	-0.006
Chennai Super Kings	8	2	6	4	-0.538
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	9	9	566	116	70.75	155.06	3	3
2	KL Rahul	9	9	374	103*	53.43	143.84	2	1
3	Hardik Pandya	8	8	308	87*	51.33	135.68	0	3
4	Tilak Varma	9	9	307	61	43.86	137.05	0	2
5	Shikhar Dhawan	9	9	307	88*	38.38	126.33	0	2

IPL 2022 Purple Cap

POS	Player	Mat	Inns	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR
1	Yuzvendra Chahal	9	9	19	40/5	13.68	7.22	11.36
2	Kuldeep Yadav	8	8	17	14/4	14.11	8.08	10.47
3	Umran Malik	8	8	15	25/5	15.93	7.96	12.00
4	Wanindu Hasranga	10	10	15	20/4	18.20	8.02	13.60
5	T Natarajan	8	8	15	10/3	17.40	8.41	12.4