The 37th match of the 2022 edition of the Indian Premier League is underway at the moment, with the Lucknow Super Giants taking on five-time champions Mumbai Indians. For the first time in IPL 2022, MI are playing a match at the Wankhede Stadium. While MI’s bowling attack did a decent job, they could not stop KL Rahul from scoring his second hundred in IPL 2022.
The Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to field first. MI kept taking wickets at regular intervals, but Rahul held one end and scored 103 runs for LSG to guide them to a score of 168 runs in 20 overs. Rahul was the only LSG batter to score more than 25 runs in the first innings.
His strike rate was 166, while he smashed 12 fours and four sixes in his entertaining knock. Fans should note that the Lucknow Super Giants and the Mumbai Indians have battled once before in IPL 2022. In that match also, Rahul scored a hundred and helped the Super Giants win the contest.
Kieron Pollard was the best bowler for MI. He picked up two wickets, conceding only eight runs in his brief spell of two overs. Speaking with host broadcasters after the first innings, Pollard said:
“Haven’t bowled in the last couple of games. We did well to restrict them to 168. Hopefully we can get that. It was holding a bit in the first ten (overs) maybe, but it was coming on better in the back ten. We played plenty of cricket here, we should look to use the dimensions of the ground.”
Fans on Twitter react as KL Rahul scores his 2nd century in IPL 2022
Here’s how the cricket universe on Twitter reacted as Rahul is back in the race to win the Orange Cap:
KL Rahul and Orange Cap a never ending story pic.twitter.com/vc2BkoAxyI
— Anoop 🇮🇳 (@ianooop) April 24, 2022
A second century of the season for KL Rahul 💯#IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/FpEnIImTnh
— Wisden (@WisdenCricket) April 24, 2022
KL Rahul becomes the first ever player to score 3 hundreds against a single team in T20 cricket.
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) April 24, 2022
100*(64) v MI at Wankhede, 2019
103*(60) v MI at Brabourne, 2022
102*(61) v MI at Wankhede, 2022 (so far)#IPL2022 #LSGvMI
KL Rahul completed 300 runs in #IPL2022 – first Indian to complete this.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 24, 2022
A century for the LSG skipper.
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) April 24, 2022
Well played, KL Rahul 👏#OneFamily #दिलखोलके #MumbaiIndians #LSGvMI #TATAIPL
– Virat Kohli in 2016
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) April 24, 2022
– KL Rahul in 2022
The only two players to score two centuries against the same team in a season 👏 pic.twitter.com/wbZrq8lKbh
For his brilliant show with the bat, @klrahul11 is our Top Performer from the first innings.
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 24, 2022
A look at his batting summary here 👇👇 #TATAIPL pic.twitter.com/ZwlsUHwtyc
KL Rahul whenever any batter competes with him for orange cap pic.twitter.com/CcxVR5Wg0L
— Neeche Se Topper (@NeecheSeTopper) April 24, 2022
