{"id":20024,"date":"2022-05-27T21:27:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=225249"},"modified":"2022-05-27T21:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:57:39","slug":"ipl-2022-rajat-patidar-joins-elite-list-of-cricketers-becomes-third-batter-to-do-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2022-rajat-patidar-joins-elite-list-of-cricketers-becomes-third-batter-to-do-so\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2022: Rajat Patidar joins elite list of cricketers; becomes third batter to do so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indore-born cricketer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rajat+Patidar\"> Rajat Patidar<\/a> again played a fine knock to take his side to a respectable total. Patidar played an innings of 58 runs off 42 balls, forming 70 runs partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Faf+du+Plessis\">Faf du Plessis<\/a>. Patidar, a replacement for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Luvnith+Sisodia\"> Luvnith Sisodia<\/a>, became an essential part of the RCB squad. Additionally, he went on to play two vital knocks for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=RCB\">RCB<\/a> in the playoffs. With this inning, Patidar became the first uncapped player and third cricketer to score 50+ runs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Eliminator\">Eliminator<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Qualifier+2\">Qualifier 2<\/a> of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL\">IPL<\/a> edition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Mr.+IPL\">Mr. IPL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Suresh+Raina\">Suresh Raina<\/a> (in 2014) and New Zealand captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Kane+Williamson\">Kane Williamson<\/a> (in 2020) are the other two-player to achieve this feat.<\/p>\n<p>In Qualifier 2, Patidar played a crucial inning of 58 runs off 42 balls, including four boundaries and three sixes. Rajat supported Faf du Plessis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Glenn+Maxwell\">Glenn Maxwell<\/a> in the middle to keep the scoreboard ticking. Further, he welcomed Chahal with a massive six.\u00a0Previously, Rajat scored a sensational 112* off 54 balls to take RCB to the Qualifier 2. His knock was praised by some of the greatest cricketers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Sachin+Tendulkar\">Sachin Tendulkar.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bangalore\u2019s top-order batsman Rajat Patidar became the first uncapped player and third cricketer to score 50+ runs in Eliminator and Qualifier of an IPL edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":40651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3254,691,3282,923,318],"class_list":["post-20024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-indian-premier-league-2022","tag-kane-williamson","tag-rajat-patidar","tag-royal-challengers-bengaluru","tag-suresh-raina"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}