Kohli’s century did not work, captain told the reason for the defeat

IPL 2024 Once again a great competition was seen on Saturday. This match was played between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore from 7:30 pm. In the match, Virat Kohli scored the first century of IPL 2024. Despite Kohli’s century, Royal Challengers Bangalore had to face defeat by 6 wickets at the hands of Rajasthan Royals in the IPL match played on Saturday. During the match, Virat Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 113 runs in 72 balls with the help of 12 fours and four sixes. On behalf of the Rajasthan Royals team that came to chase the target, Jos Buttler also snatched the match from the hands of RCB by scoring an unbeaten century. Whereas RCB team captain Faf du Plessis explained the reason for the team’s defeat. He said, ‘When I was batting with Virat, the wicket seemed quite complicated. We felt that a score of 190 would be correct. We should have scored 10-15 more runs.

IPL 2024: Butler ruined Kohli’s century: Du Plessis

Faf du Plessis said, ‘Virat Kohli was batting well. Virat, Green or Dinesh Karthik had to come after that, so we could have scored some more runs and we also tried but it became difficult to hit the shot. The spinners’ ball was coming under the bat. Later the pitch became better. Dew also had its effect. Jos Buttler returned to form after completing his century with a six, dismissing Virat Kohli’s century and Rajasthan Royals defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets to capture the top position in the IPL points table. Royals have played four matches so far and are on top after winning all four. At the same time, RCB has slipped to eighth place with its third consecutive defeat.

IPL 2024: Captain du Plessis told the reason for the defeat

After losing the match, Royal Challengers Bangalore team captain Faf du Plessis said that the wicket was tricky and he felt that a score around 190 would be right for the team. Faf du Plessis said after the match, ‘When I was batting with Virat, the wicket seemed very complicated. We felt that a score of 190 would be correct. We should have scored 10-15 more runs.

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IPL 2024: This was RCB’s innings

Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson won the toss and invited RCB to bat first. Captain Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli came to open. Both of them started destroying Rajasthan’s bowling and took the team’s score beyond 100 in just 12 overs. Virat Kohli scored unbeaten 113 runs in 72 balls with the help of 12 fours and 4 sixes. Faf supported him fully and played an inning of 44 runs in 33 balls. He hit two fours and two sixes. After this no batsman batted, Glenn Maxwell and Saurav Chauhan were out cheaply. RCB gave Rajasthan a target of 184 runs to win.

IPL 2024: Rajasthan registered victory like this

The strong Rajasthan team also made a great start on its home ground. First blow to Rajasthan in the form of Yashasvi Jaiswal. Hit on the second ball of the innings. But after that, captain Sanju Samson, who came to bat at number three, made a quick partnership of 148 runs for the second wicket with the second opener Jos Buttler. Rajasthan crossed the mark of 140 in the 15th over itself, Samson’s wicket fell in the same over. Riyan Parag could not do any wonders today and got out after scoring 4 runs. After that Dhruv Jurel also lost his wicket for 2 runs. But Butler remained steadfast at one end and kept hitting big hits. He completed his century in 58 balls. When the team needed one run to win and Butler needed six runs to get a century, he hit a six. His century was also completed and his team also won.

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