-Vinay Kumar
In the 5th match of IPL 2022, the latest season of league cricket, Rajasthan Royals defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 61 runs at MCA Stadium, Pune on the night of Tuesday, 29 March. In this match, Rajasthan Royals RR captain Sanju Samson hit a half-century in 25 balls. He scored 55 runs in 27 balls in his innings, in which his bat also hit 3 fours and 5 superb sixes. For his excellent innings, he was awarded the ‘Player of the Match IPL 2022’.
With this latest achievement, Sanju Samson became the first captain to become the ‘Player of the Match’ in IPL 2022. Let us remind you that in the 4 matches of this latest season played before this match, Umesh Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Odean Smith and Mohammed Shami ‘Player of’ before him. He has won the ‘Player of the Match’ IPL 2022 award. Among all these players, only Odeon Smith is an all-rounder, the rest are bowlers. The special thing was that Sanju Samson also registered a record of hitting sixes in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in this match played in Pune.
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While Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson became the first captain to become the ‘Player of the Match’ in IPL 2022, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) wicketkeeper-batsman Nicholas Pooran has an unwanted record. Gone. In IPL Mega Auction-2025 2022, SRH bought Nicholas Pooran for Rs 10 crore 75 lakh. In this match played against RR, Pooran faced 9 balls, but returned to the pavilion after getting out on zero.
The history of IPL tells that Nicholas Pooran has been out for zero for the sixth time in his IPL career since 2020. Since IPL 2020, no other batsman has been dismissed so many times without opening an account. In this case, Nitish Rana and Sunil Narine are at number two. Both the players have returned to the pavilion without opening the account 5-5 times since IPL 2020. One more thing to remind you that in the history of IPL, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) has got the target of more than 200 runs 7 times so far and has always had to face it.