The 45th match of IPL 2024 was played between Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Royal Challengers Bangalore won this match with great ease. In the match, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and decided to bowl first. After this, GT team came to bat first and scored 200 runs losing three wickets in 20 overs. After this, while chasing, Gujarat Titans scored 206 runs in 16 overs losing only one wicket and won the match. Will Jacques’ century played the most important role in RCB’s victory. With this century, a special record was also created in IPL.
Will Jacques’ century made a record
Will Jacques played a brilliant innings against Gujarat Titans. He scored 100 runs in just 41 balls in this match. He hit a six on the last ball to score a century when his team needed only one run to win. With this century, a special record has also been made. He is the 10th batsman to score a century in this season of IPL. A total of 11 centuries have been scored this season. Never before had 10 batsmen scored centuries in a single season of IPL.
9 batsmen had scored centuries during IPL 2023. That was the record for the most number of centuries scored by a batsman in a season, but this season only 45 matches were played and this record has been broken. More new batsmen can score centuries this season. Jos Buttler of Rajasthan Royals has scored two centuries this season. This is why 10 batsmen have scored centuries and the total centuries are 11.
List of batsmen who scored centuries in IPL 2024
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
- Virat Kohli
- Rohit Sharma
- Jos Buttler – 2 centuries
- marcus stoinis
- travis head
- jonny bairstow
- Ruturaj Gaikwad
- Sunil Narayan
- Will Jacques
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