2024-04-06 22:25:57
Jaipur: With Josh Butler’s unbeaten century and Sanju Samson’s stormy batting, Rajasthan Royals defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 6 wickets in the 19th match of the Indian Premier League. In the match, RCB team batted first after losing the toss and scored 183 runs in 20 overs with the help of Virat Kohli’s unbeaten century of 113 runs. In response, Rajasthan won the match with 5 balls remaining at their home ground Sawai Mansingh Cricket Stadium.
Rajasthan had a very bad start in this match against RCB. Opener batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal returned to the pavilion without opening his account. Rajasthan team was looking in trouble after losing its first wicket without scoring any runs, but after this Sanju Samson along with Butler created havoc. Both these batsmen troubled the RCB bowlers with their stormy batting. After this, Butler and Sanju made a partnership of 148 runs for the second wicket. In this match against RCB, Sanju Samson played a brilliant inning of 69 runs in just 42 balls. In this innings, he also hit 8 fours and 2 excellent sixes.
Butler completed his century with a six
Josh Butler was playing his 100th match in the Indian Premier League. Buttler became the second player after KL Rahul to score a century in his 100th IPL match. However, while chasing the target against RCB, it seemed that Buttler would not be able to complete his century. Because in the 20th over the team needed only 1 run to win, but Butler, who was batting on the score of 94 runs, hit a six on the very first ball against Mohammad Siraj, due to which Butler not only completed his century but also scored a six in 5 balls. Gave victory to Rajasthan as soon as there was time left.
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Virat’s century sank RCB
In this match against Rajasthan, Virat Kohli undoubtedly played a century, but despite this his team set a target of only 184 runs for Rajasthan. Rajasthan easily achieved this target at home, Virat Kohli remained unbeaten till the end and scored 113 runs for RCB. During this period his strike rate was only 156.94. Virat Kohli completed his century in 67 balls in this innings, which also proved to be the slowest century of his IPL career. This is why his slow innings overshadowed RCB.