RR Go Top After beating RCB: IPL Points Table, Purple Cap and Orange Cap
The Royals next play Mumbai Indians, who have lost 8 games on the bounce, on the weekend.
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The Rajasthan Royals defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 29 runs with the team putting in a very fine effort on Tuesday in Pune.
The win takes the Royals to the top of the IPL 2022 points table with 6 wins out of 8 games. Among the big architects of the win for the Royals was Riyan Parag with an unbeaten 56 and 4 catches later as well. Among the bowlers, Kuldeep Sen picked 4 wickets and R Ashwin bagged 3 scalps to derail the RCB batting, which has big names like Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell and Dinesh Karthik.
The Royals next play Mumbai Indians, who have lost 8 games on the bounce, on the weekend.
IPL points table after Rajasthan defeated Bangalore on Tuesday night in IPL 2022.
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In terms of the Orange Cap, RR’s Jos Buttler had an off day but remains at the top of the charts with 499 runs from 8 games.
Meanwhile, with the ball, in the Purple Cap, spinner Yuzvendra Chahal had a tough day and did not pick any wickets against RCB, However, that has not affected his position on the wicket-takers charts as he sits pretty at the top with 18 scalps from 8 games. T Natarajan of Sunrisers Hyderabad is second on the list with 15 wickets to his name.
Chahal is also closing in on the record of the most wickets by a in the IPL and needs 10 wickets to eclipse Amit Mishra.
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