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Jos Buttler's century: Jos Buttler, one of the most explosive batsmen in T20 cricket, scored his second century in IPL 2024 to lead Rajasthan Royals to a 2-wicket win against KKR. In this 31st match held at Eden Gardens, KKR, batting first, scored a huge score of 223 runs in 20 overs on the basis of Sunil Narine's century. Chasing the target, Rajasthan won on the last ball. The winning run came from the bat of Jos Buttler. Butler played an unbeaten inning of 107 runs in 60 balls. With this century he made many big records in his name.
This is Butler's 7th century in IPL. At the same time, this is his second century of the season. With this, Butler has left Chris Gayle behind in terms of scoring most centuries in IPL. Chris Gayle scored 6 centuries in IPL. With this century, Butler has come second in this list after Virat Kohli. Kohli is the batsman who has scored the most centuries in IPL. Kohli has scored 8 centuries in the league so far, including one century in IPL 2024.
Most centuries in IPL
8 – Virat Kohli
7 – Jos Buttler
6 – Chris Gayle
4 – KL Rahul
4 – David Warner
4 – Shane Watson
With this century, Butler broke a big record of Virat Kohli and left Kohli behind. This is Butler's third century while chasing runs in this IPL. At the same time, Virat Kohli has scored two centuries in the run chase. Ben Stokes has also managed to do this twice. Butler hit 9 fours and 6 sixes in his century innings. Meanwhile, his strike rate was 178.33. The best player of the match award was given to Butler.
Most centuries in IPL compared to run chase
3 – Jos Buttler
2 – Virat Kohli
2 – Ben Stokes
Butler has scored the most centuries in T20 cricket.
Made another big record. This is his 8th century while chasing runs in T20 cricket. This is also the 8th century of his T20 career. Interestingly, all these eight centuries of Butler have been scored while chasing runs. With this, he has become the second batsman along with Babar Azam to score a century while chasing the maximum number of runs in T20 cricket. Babar has also done this 8 times. Along with this, Chris Gayle has scored maximum 16 centuries.
More centuries than run chase in T-20
16 – Chris Gayle
8 – Babar Azam
8 – Jos Buttler
This is also Batkar's second century against KKR. He has also scored 2 centuries against Challengers Bangalore. He has joined the club of batsmen who have scored the most centuries against any one team. KL Rahul has scored maximum three centuries against any one team in IPL. He has done this feat against Mumbai Indians. Butler is at number two and third in this list.
Most centuries against an IPL team
3 – KL Rahul vs Mumbai Indians
2 – Jos Buttler vs Kolkata Knight Riders (in this match)
2 – Jos Buttler vs Royal Challengers Bangalore
2 – Chris Gayle vs Punjab Kings
2 – Virat Kohli vs Gujarat Lions
2 – David Warner vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Other records made in the match
Most centuries in an IPL match
2 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Lions, Bangalore, 2016
2 – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Hyderabad, 2019
2 – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Hyderabad, 2023
2 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Titans, Bengaluru, 2023
2 – Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Jaipur, 2024
2 – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata, 2024 (In this match)
Player who took century and one wicket in IPL match
107 & 3/21 – Chris Gayle (RCB) vs PBKS, Bengaluru, 2011
175* & 2/5 – Chris Gayle (RCB) vs PWI, Bengaluru, 2013
104* & 2/38 – Shane Watson (RR) vs KKR, Brabourne, 2015
106 & 1/13 – Shane Watson (CSK) vs RR, Pune, 2018
109 & 2/30 – Sunil Narine (KKR) vs RR, Kolkata, 2024 (In this match)
Most successful run chase in IPL
224 – Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab Kings, Sharjah, 2020
224 – Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Kolkata, 2024 (In this match)
219 – Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings, Delhi, 2021
215 – Rajasthan Royals vs Deccan Chargers, Hyderabad, 2008
215 – Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings, Mohali, 2023
215 – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rajasthan Royals, Jaipur, 2023