Du Plessis scored 88 in his first game in the league with a lot of money.
Their bowling came back to haunt them again when they couldn’t defend a target of 206 runs against the Punjab Kings in their first game of the IPL 2022 season. Shahrukh Khan and Odean Smith were both unbeaten on 24 and 25 runs as RCB lost by five wickets in the third match of the IPL 2022 in Navi Mumbai. RCC’s bowling again proved to be the Achilles heel of the team. This time, it was PBKS who pulled off the best-run chase in IPL history.
New captain Mayank Agarwal won the toss in the third match of the IPL 2022. PBKS chose to field first. Captain Faf du Plessis kept up with his good work from last year. He scored eighty-eight runs off just 57 balls, with three fours and seven sixes. His opening partner, Anuj Rawat, scored 21 runs. Virat Kohli, who used to be the captain, hit 41 runs off 29 balls. Wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik smashed 32 runs off just 14 balls, with three fours and two sixes, to help RCB reach 205/2 in 20 overs.
In the run chase, the top three PBKS batters all hit as the RCB bowlers had a hard time in the power play overs. During the game, captain Mayank scored 32 runs, but Shikhar Dhawan and Bhanu Kanaka each scored 43 runs. As Liam Livingstone made 19 runs off 10 balls, he hit two sixes. With Shahrukh Khan’s help, Odean Smith made a lot of runs. They made 25 runs off eight balls, including three huge sixes. His team won with one over to spare. He was named Player of the Game because PBKS won the match with one over to spare.
They also played the third game in the Indian Premier League 2022, and here are some of the most important stats and numbers:
He played in his 200th innings in the IPL.
3 – Faf du Plessis and Kohli had the third-best second-wicket partnership in IPL history for RCB against PBKS, with 118 runs. and Kohli scored 136 runs against the team from Punjab in 2013, and 119 runs in 2012.
88: Du Plessis scored the fourth-highest number of points (88) by a player who was a captain for the first time in a league with a lot of cash.
Dinesh Karthik scored 402 fours in the Indian Premier League, which is a lot.
Du Plessis hit 3000 runs in the league. In his 94th innings, he reached the goal and became the third-fastest player to do so, along with David Warner. KL Rahul played 80 innings and Gayle played 75.
Most IPL teams have made more than 200 runs 21 times. The following are the teams with the most runs: The Chennai Super Kings are ranked second on the list. They have scored more than 200 runs 19 times in the league.
Also, Du Plessis hit 100 sixes in the IPL, making him the first player to do so.
Harshal Patel took 150 wickets in T20 games.
1 – The Punjab Kings triumphed thanks to their best run chase. When they played against SRH and CSK in 2014, they hit the same goal of 206.
It was the only IPL match where 45 extras were bowled, which is more than in any other match. This is the second-highest number of extra points ever: 38 in a match between the Deccan Chargers and the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008.
On Indian soil, Du Plessis has now scored five straight IPL 50s.
1 – Punjab Kings joined CSK and KKR as the best RCB run chases in IPL history.This is how it worked: CSK hit 206 twice in 2012 and 2018. KKR hit the same number of runs twice in 2019.
