Chahal Hat Trick Buttler Ton Leads Rajasthan To IPL Win

MUMBAI, India (AP) - Yuzvendra Chahal's hat trick and Obed McCoy's two wickets in the last over led Rajasthan Royals to beat Kolkata Knights by seven runs in an Indian Premier League thriller on Monday.

Jos Buttler smashed his second century of this IPL - 103 off 61 balls - to help Rajasthan post 217-5, the highest total of the season, but Kolkata looked like chasing it down at 178-4 entering the 17th over.

Chahal turned the momentum in Rajasthan´s favour.

Venkatesh Iyer was stumped, then three balls later captain Shreyas Iyer was trapped for 85 off 51 balls, and Shivam Mavi and Pat Cummins were out to catches for ducks.

The 21st hat trick in IPL history, and the fifth by a Rajasthan bowler, gave Chahal 5-40.

However, Kolkata still had a shot.
Umesh Yadav and Sheldon Jackson took 20 off the 18th over, and 7 off the 19th. They needed a gettable nine off the last five deliveries by left-arm pacer McCoy on debut, when Jackson mistimed a pull to short fine leg, and two balls later Yadav was bowled for 21 from nine.

Kolkata was all out for 210 with two balls to spare.

Rajasthan moved to second in the standings on run rate, while Kolkata's third straight loss put it at sixth.

Put in to bat, Buttler lit up Rajasthan´s innings as he smacked nine fours and five sixes.

He raced to 50 off 29 balls, and his hundred came off 59 deliveries.

He joined the likes of Chris Gayle (2011), Shane Watson (2018) and Hashim Amla (2017) as overseas batsmen with two hundreds in a single IPL. Overall, it was his third IPL century for Rajasthan.

Buttler put on 97 runs off 58 balls for the first wicket with Devdutt Padikkal (24), and added 67 runs off 34 balls with Sanju Samson (38).
He fell to Cummins late in the innings.

In reply, Kolkata's Aaron Finch helped himself to 58 off 28 balls, including nine fours and http://www.youthnetradio.org/tmit/forum/home.php?mod=space&uid=140872&do=profile two sixes, and resurrected their chase in a century stand with Shreyas Iyer.

Then Chahal's spin ruined it for them.

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