ArchiveYuzvendra Chahal Completes 150 Wickets In IPL, Also Bags Purple Cap
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Yuzvendra Chahal is in sublime form at the moment. He is taking wickets and making it easy for his team Rajasthan Royals to win matches.

In his previous match, he achieved a phenomenal feat. Yuzvendra Chahal bagged 4 wickets against Lucknow Super Giants. with this amazing performance, he has completed his 150 wickets in IPL. He has become the fourth Indian and the 6th bowler overall to reach this milestone.

Before Yuzvendra Chahal, Dwayne Bravo, Lasith Malinga, Piyush Chawla, Amit Mishra and Harbhajan Singh have taken 150 wickets in IPL. Against Lucknow, Chahal trapped Badoni, Quinton de Kock, Krunal Pandya and Dushmant Chamira in his spin. Subsequently, Chamira was Chahal’s 150th IPL wicket. With this impressive performance, Chahal has become the highest wicket-taker in IPL 2022, taking 11 wickets in this season and snatching the purple cap from Umesh Yadav. Umesh has so far taken 10 wickets in season 15.

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Highest wicket taker in IPL

Dwayne Bravo – 173
Lasith Malinga – 170
Amit Mishra – 166
Piyush Chawla – 157
Harbhajan Singh – 150
Yuzvendra Chahal – 150*

Rajasthan Royals won this match played at Wankhede by a small margin of 3 runs. With this win, the team has also reached the top of the points table. Batting first, Rajasthan had set a target of 166 runs in front of Lucknow Super Giants. Rajasthan Royals had troubling first 10 overs but Hetmyer played an exceptional inning that allowed RR to come back in the game.

In this match, which went up to the last over, Lucknow needed 15 runs in the final over. However, debutant Kuldeep bowled well and ensured 3 runs victory. Quinton de Kock scored 39 and Marcus Stoinis scored 38 * for Lucknow, while Yuzvendra Chahal took 4 wickets.

After losing the toss, Jos Buttler and Devdutt Padikkal (29) gave a good start to Rajasthan Royals and added 41 runs for the first wicket. Rajasthan got 3 more shocks back to back as soon as Butler (13) was dismissed. The score went from 41/1 to 67/4 in just a few overs.

At this difficult time, Ashwin supported Hetmyer and there was a partnership of 68 runs between the two. Ashwin retired after scoring 28 runs off 23 balls, while Hetmyer played an unbeaten innings of 59 runs off 36 balls with the help of 1 four and 6 sixes. In the bowling department. Trent Boult and Yuzvendra Chahal did rest of the job to restrict LSG on 162 runs.