In the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), if one team has shown consistency in its performance so far, it is the Rajasthan Royals team. In the match played against Mumbai Indians on 22 April, he won unilaterally by 9 wickets. In this match, Rajasthan had a target of 180 runs, which they achieved in 18.4 overs at the loss of 1 wicket. In this match, the magic of Yashasvi Jaiswal’s bat was seen, who was getting the start in the last few matches, but used to lose his wicket soon. In this match, Jaiswal, learning from his previous mistakes, faced 60 balls in which he played an unbeaten inning of 104 runs with 9 fours and 7 sixes. This was Jaiswal’s second century of his IPL career which came against Mumbai Indians.
Yashasvi is the sixth player to score 2 centuries in IPL against one team.
The year 2023 IPL season was very good with the bat for Yashasvi Jaiswal in which he scored 625 runs in 14 matches at an average of 48, which included one century and 5 half-centuries. Even before the start of this season, Jaiswal’s form was excellent, but he could not manage to play even a single half-century inning in the first 7 matches, but Yashasvi overcome this shortcoming by playing a century in the match against Mumbai Indians. Gave proof to everyone that he was in form. With this century, Jaiswal has also become a part of an exclusive club of Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle in the IPL. Yashasvi is the sixth player in IPL who has scored 2 or more centuries against one team.
Players who have scored most centuries against one team in IPL
- KL Rahul – 3 centuries (vs Mumbai Indians)
- Chris Gayle – 2 centuries (vs Punjab Kings)
- Virat Kohli – 2 centuries (vs Gujarat Lions)
- David Warner – 2 centuries (vs Kolkata Knight Riders)
- Jos Buttler – 2 centuries (vs Kolkata Knight Riders)
- Jos Buttler – 2 centuries (vs Royal Challengers Bangalore)
- Yashasvi Jaiswal – 2 centuries (vs Mumbai Indians)
Rajasthan became the fifth team in IPL to win 7 out of the first 8 matches.
This has rarely been seen in the history of IPL, when a team has won 7 out of its first 8 matches. Rajasthan Royals has become the fifth team to do so in the 17 seasons of IPL so far. Mumbai Indians had achieved this feat for the first time in the 2010 season. After this, Punjab Kings won in the year 2014, Chennai Super Kings in the year 2019 and Gujarat Titans team won 7 out of their first 8 matches in the year 2022 season.
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