IPL Podcast: Rajasthan Royals reach top after defeating Gujarat, Delhi Capitals yet to taste victory

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NoNaveen Srivastava is present with Maskar, the weekly sports bulletin of News18 Hindi Podcast. More than one exciting match is being seen in IPL 2023. In both the matches played on this Super Sunday, the teams batting later won. In the first match, Mumbai Indians defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 5 wickets. So in the second match, Rajasthan Royals registered a thrilling 3-wicket win over defending champions Gujarat Titans.

In this IPL, this is the second win of Mumbai Indians in 4 matches so far, while this is the fourth win of Rajasthan Royals in five matches. With this victory, the Rajasthan team has reached the top of the points table. Lucknow Super Giants is at number two. While Gujarat Titans is at number three. At the same time, Punjab Kings is at number four in the points table. After the matches played till April 16 among the ten teams participating in the IPL, Delhi Capitals is the only team that has not tasted victory yet in this season.

Kolkata Knight Riders had to face defeat despite Venkatesh Iyer’s brilliant century in the 22nd match of IPL played at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. Opener Ishan Kishan’s stormy half-century innings of 58 runs in just 25 balls and Suryakumar Yadav’s fiery innings of 45 runs in 25 balls helped Mumbai achieve the target of 186 runs by losing five wickets in the fourth ball of the 18th over. Received.

Tilak Verma’s 30 runs and Tim David’s unbeaten 24 were also instrumental in helping Mumbai win. Captain Rohit Sharma scored 20 runs in 13 balls. Suyyash Sharma was the most successful bowler for Kolkata by taking 2 wickets.

Earlier, after losing the toss, Kolkata Knight Riders, batting first, scored 185 runs for six wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Left-handed aggressive batsman Venkatesh Iyer scored the second century of IPL 2023. He became the second batsman to score a century for Kolkata Knight Riders. Venkatesh Iyer played a blistering century of 104 runs in 51 balls. Venkatesh hit 6 fours and 09 sixes in his innings. He was given the Player of the Match award. Andre Russell contributed 21 not out, Rinku Singh contributed 18 runs and Shardul Thakur contributed 13 runs. Hrithik Shokeen was the most successful bowler from Mumbai with 2 wickets.

The 23rd match of the 16th edition of IPL, played on Sunday itself, was even more exciting. In the match played at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, the defending champions Gujraj Titans faced a three-wicket defeat by Rajasthan Royals at their own home ground.

First Sanju Samson’s blistering 60-run captaincy innings played in just 32 balls and then Player of the Match Shimron Hetmyer’s unbeaten 56-run stormy innings played in just 26 balls, Rajasthan Royals got the target of 178 runs to win. Got it after losing seven wickets with four balls of the match remaining. While Sanju hit three fours and six sixes in his innings, Shimran Hetmayan’s unbeaten half-century innings, which won the match by hitting a six, included two fours and five sixes.

Sanju Samson thrilled the audience by hitting Rashid Khan for three sixes in three consecutive balls in the 13th over. Dhruv Jurel scored 18 in 10 balls and Ravichandran Ashwin scored 10 useful runs in 03 balls. In the last over, Rajasthan had to score 7 runs to win, Hetmyer gave his team a memorable victory by hitting a six on the second ball of the over. By the way, the condition of the Rajasthan team chasing the target of victory at one time was very bad and its first four wickets had returned to the pavilion for just 55 runs.

Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal got out by scoring 1 run, Jos Buttler bagger account, Devdutt Paddikal 26 and Riyan Parag 5 runs. Mohammed Shami was the most successful bowler from Gujarat Titans. He took 3 wickets for just 25 runs.

Earlier, while batting first, Gujarat Titans scored 177 runs for seven wickets. David Miller played a brilliant inning of 46 runs in 30 balls. Shubman Gill contributed 45 and captain Hardik Pandya contributed 28 runs. Sandeep Sharma took maximum 2 wickets from Rajasthan Royals.

Delhi Capitals faced defeat for the fifth time in a row in the 20th match of IPL 2023 played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Saturday. Royal Challengers Bangalore beat him by 23 runs. Batting first, RCB scored 174 runs for six wickets. Virat Kohli played a brilliant half-century innings of 50 runs. He was chosen player of the match.

In response to the target of 175 runs for victory, the Delhi team could only manage 151 runs for 9 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Vijay Kumar Vaishakh took three wickets in his debut match for RCB.

In the second match of the double header played on Saturday in IPL 2023, Punjab Kings defeated Lucknow Supergiants by two wickets at their home ground. Batting first, Lucknow Supergiants scored 159 runs for 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. KL Rahul played a brilliant captaincy half-century innings of 74 runs. KL Rahul also achieved the feat of scoring the fastest four thousand runs in IPL.

Sam Karan was the most successful bowler from Punjab Kings with three wickets. Punjab Kings achieved the target of victory in the last over due to Player of the Match Sikandar Raza’s brilliant half-century innings of 57 runs and Shah Rukh Khan’s unbeaten 23 runs in just 10 balls. Matthew Short contributed 34 and Harpreet Singh contributed 22 runs.

And finally, India’s 19-member men’s boxing team left for Tashkent on Monday for a training camp ahead of the April 30-May 14 World Championships. Six-time Asian Championships medalist Shiv Thapa and 2019 Asian Championships silver medalist Deepak Bhoria will present the Indian challenge at the World Championships. Thirteen boxers from India will participate in the World Championship. So far 640 boxers from 104 countries have registered for the championship to be held in Tashkent.

That’s it for today in the weekly special sports bulletin of News 18 Hindi Podcast. We will be back again with the latest sports news. For then allow Naveen Srivastava. Hello.

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