IPL 2024 – Jos Buttler century beats Virat Kohli, Rajasthan beats Bengaluru by 6 wickets

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Jaipur,, In the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match on Saturday at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium here, opener Jos Buttler returned to form with a brilliant century in 58 balls in his 100th IPL match. He surpassed Virat Kohli’s century, helping Rajasthan Royals defeat Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets.

With this, Rajasthan Royals made a record of winning four out of four matches.
After Kohli scored his eighth IPL century and ninth overall in T20 cricket, he scored an unbeaten 113 off 72 balls to take RCB to 183/3, after which Buttler weathered the initial storm and then played the attacking game to perfection. Delivered. He scored 100 runs in 58 balls with the help of nine fours and four sixes.
Through his brilliant innings, Butler has also become the second batsman after KL Rahul to score 100 runs in his 100th IPL match. On a pitch where stroke play got better as the game progressed, Buttler also got good support from captain Sanju Samson. He scored 69 runs in 42 balls. RR completed the chase with five balls to spare and now top the points table. It was the same old story for RCB, lacking penetration with the ball and barring Reece Topley, other players failed to perform remarkably for the visitors. Failed in. RR didn’t get off to an ideal start in their chase of 184 as Yashasvi Jaiswal pulled a ball from Reece Topley at mid-off and was out for a duck. Samson hit three fours. Before this, Butler hit a four on Dinesh Karthik’s ball. After this, Mohammed narrowly escaped being run out in the bowling of Siraj in the fourth over. Buttler then hit two off-side fours off Yash Dayal and left-arm spinner Mayank Dagar, hitting three fours and a six in the 18-run over. RR scored 54/1 in six overs at the end of the power play. Buttler scored a single off Cameron Green before completing his half-century in 30 balls. Samson mesmerized everyone by hitting an upper cut six off Siraj. After this, he completed his second half-century of the season in 33 balls by hitting two fours and a six on Dagar’s ball. The partnership of 148 runs ended when Samson could not pull the ball of Siraj at the right time and hit it at deep backward square leg. Gave a catch. Although Riyan Parag and Dhruv Jurel were out in quick succession, Buttler and Shimron Hetmyer scored the remaining runs. Buttler brought up his century with a six to the left of deep square leg to give RR a thrilling win at home. Brief scores: Royal Challengers Bangalore 183/3 in 20 overs (Virat Kohli 113 not out, Faf du Plessis 44; Yuzvendra Chahal 2 Sanju Samson 69, Nandre Berger 1-34, Rajasthan Royals 189/4 in 19.1 overs (Jos Buttler 100 not out); Reece Topley 2-27, Mohammed Siraj 1-35) lost by six wickets.–IANS

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