DC vs KKR IPL 2022: Who won today's IPL match? Man of the Match, Point Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap

Who won today’s IPL match?: The 42nd match match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 saw Delhi Capitals (DC) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) squaring off with each other at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. It was a low thrilling encounter that saw both the sides displayed a staggering bowling performance. But it was the Rishabh Pant-led side who held their nerves better and registered their fourth win of the season.

Today’s IPL match result

Put into bat first, KKR didn’t have a great start with bat as they lost early wickets and were tumbling at 35/4. Skipper Shreyas Iyer steadied his side’s innings and scored a valuable 42 runs. KKR tumbled once again as after Iyer they lost wickets in clusters. But Nitish Rana scored a sensational half-century and along with Rinku Singh, who scored 23 runs, and helped their side post a fighting total of 146 runs on the board.

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KKR then turned the tables and had a dream start as they removed Prithvi Shaw on the first ball and then removed Mitchell Marsh in the second over. David Warner played a counter-attacking innings of 42 runs. After his wicket Lalit Yadav (22) and Rishabh Pant (2) fell early as DC found themselves tumbling at 84/5. But in the end, Rovman Powell held his nerve well and made sure that his side end on the winning note. He scored 33 runs in 16 balls to win the match by 4 wickets for his side.

Man of the match today IPL

Delhi Capitals leg-spinner Kuldeep Yadav was awarded Player of the Match in today’s encounter against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The Chinaman bowler displayed a sensational show of slow bowling and returned with 3/14 to help his win the match. He removed the likes of Shreyas Iyer, Baba Indrajith, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell. Notably, this was Kuldeep’s fourth Player of the match award in IPL.

Today IPL highlights

You can catch highlights of today’s IPL 2022 encounter between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on official website of IPL. Here’s the link to the same:

IPL schedule

The next match of the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is slated to take place between Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at MCA Stadium in Pune.

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IPL 2022 Point Table

Teams	P	W	L	Pts	Nrr
Gujarat Titans	8	7	1	14	+0.371
Rajasthan Royals	8	6	2	12	+0.561
Sunrisers Hyderabad	8	5	3	10	+0.600
Lucknow Super Giants	8	5	3	10	+0.334
Royal Challengers Bangalore	9	5	4	10	-0.572
Delhi Capitals	8	4	4	8	+0.695
Punjab Kings	8	4	4	8	-0.419
Kolkata Knight Riders	9	3	6	6	-0.006
Chennai Super Kings	8	2	6	4	-0.538
Mumbai Indians	8	0	8	0	-1.00

IPL 2022 Orange Cap

POS	Player	Mat	Inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100	50
1	Jos Buttler	8	8	499	116	71.29	159.42	3	2
2	KL Rahul	8	8	368	103*	61.33	147.79	2	1
3	Hardik Pandya	7	7	305	87*	61.00	137.38	0	3
4	Shikhar Dhawan	8	8	302	88*	43.14	132.45	0	2
5	Shreyas Iyer	9	9	290	85	36.25	137.44	0	2

IPL 2022 Purple Cap

POS	Player	Mat	Inns	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR
1	Yuzvendra Chahal	8	8	18	40/5	12.61	7.09	10.66
2	Kuldeep Yadav	8	8	17	14/4	14.11	8.08	10.47
3	Umran Malik	8	8	15	25/5	15.93	7.96	12.00
4	T Natarajan	8	8	15	10/3	17.40	8.41	12.40
5	Umesh Yadav	9	9	14	23/4	18.71	7.27	15.42