New Delhi. There was an amazing match in IPL 2024 on Tuesday. For the first time in the league, two centuries were scored in the same match. The first century gave a huge score to Kolkata Knight Riders and the second century
Gave an impossible victory to Rajasthan Royals. Jos Buttler was the hero of the match, who led Rajasthan Royals to victory when they were struggling by losing 6 wickets for 121 runs in reply to 223 runs. With this victory, Rajasthan Royals team has moved far towards the playoffs. Have secured 12 points in the IPL points table.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) scored a huge score of 223 runs for 6 wickets against Rajasthan Royals at their home ground Eden Garden on Tuesday. Sunil Narine played an inning of 109 runs for KKR. This is Sunil Narine’s first century in IPL.
Rajasthan Royals made a good start while chasing the target. At one point in the eighth over, RR had scored 97 runs for 2 wickets. Then she seemed to be moving easily towards victory. But KKR took 4 wickets of Rajasthan within the next 24 runs. In this way, Rajasthan’s score increased from 97 runs for 2 wickets to 121 runs for 6 wickets.
The good thing for Rajasthan Royals was that Jos Buttler remained at the crease even when there was a fall of wickets from one end. When wickets fell quickly, Butler slowed down his game. During this period, he kept the team in the race for victory by making a partnership of 57 runs with Rovman Powell.
When Rovman Powell (26) was out, the team’s score was 178 runs in 16.5 overs. After this Butler took charge alone. The team needed 46 runs on 18 balls to win. Butler himself scored 40 of these runs. 6 runs came from extra (wide). During this period, Rajasthan Royals had scored 43 runs out of 46 on just 13 balls.
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Tags: IPL 2024, IPL Point Table, Jos Buttler, Rajasthan Royals, Sunil Narine
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 17, 2024, 07:14 IST