Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore have made a great start in the IPL. In Hyderabad, Sunrisers beat Rajasthan by 72 runs by scoring 203 runs in a whirlwind fifty by Yasswi Jaisal (54), Jos Buttler (54), and Sanju Samson (55). And that is possible with Yuzvendra Chahal’s whirlwind magic. Chahal played a great role with the ball to restrict Hyderabad to 131 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. He bowled 4 overs and took 4 wickets for just 17 runs. Through this, he became the first Indian to take 300 wickets in T20. His total wickets are now 303 after playing 265 matches in T20 cricket. Which he got at an average of 23.60 and an economy rate of 7.58. Out of 303 wickets, Chahal got 91 in 75 matches for India. Chahal is followed by his Rajasthan teammate Ravichandran Ashwin in this list. His wicket count is 287. Not only that, Chahal is the third-highest wicket-taker in IPL history. In IPL, he played 132 matches and took 170 wickets at an average of 21.42 and an economy rate of 7.59.

On this day, in the other match of IPL, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis stormed Mumbai Indians by a big margin of 8 wickets. Chasing the target of 172 runs, Kohli and du Plessis got off to a flying start with a partnership of 148 runs. Plessy scored 73 runs off 43 balls with 5 fours and 6 sixes, but Kohli won the match and left the field. He remained unbeaten on 84 off 49 balls with 6 fours and 5 sixes. Through this, he became the only Indian batsman in the history of IPL to reach the milestone of playing 50+ fifty innings. Among them, Kohli’s fifty is 45 and century is 5. Delhi Capitals captain David Warner tops this list. He played an inning of 60 fifties in IPL. Besides, Shikhar Dhawan is in the third position with 49 fifty runs innings.

Kolkata needed 11 runs in the last over to chase the target of 218 runs given by Rajasthan. But after scoring 3 runs in Obed Mccoy’s over, Kolkata lost the remaining two wickets. Kolkata was bowled out for 210.

Sunil Narine was run out at the beginning to chase the run. Aaron Finch and Shreyas Iyer added 107 runs for the second wicket. Finch was dismissed for 58 off 28 balls by the Prasidh Krishna.

However, Shreyas did not give up. The captain was dismissed for 85 off 51 balls. In the 16th over, Chahal changed the face of the match by taking wickets of Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas, Shivam Mavi, and Cummins. The leg-spinner dismissed Shreyas, Shivam Mavi, and Cummins in three consecutive balls to score a hat-trick. He took 5 wickets for 40 runs.

Earlier, after winning the toss, Kolkata sent Rajasthan Royals to bat. Rajasthan scored 217 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs based on Butler’s 103 runs. Chahal has become the best in the match.

As a result of this victory, Rajasthan came up at number two with 8 points in 6 matches. On the other hand, The Knights dropped to number six at the moment with a hat-trick of losses.