In match No. 19 of IPL 2024, Rajasthan Royals secured a very emphatic win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Jaipur. Royals have now won four matches out of four and are one of the two unbeaten teams in this year’s IPL so Royal Challengers though, have slumped to a third consecutive loss and have only one win in five matches.
Put into bat, RCB started very strongly, putting up 53/0 in the powerplay but got slowed down by the spinners in the middle. Virat Kohli (113 off 72) and skipper Faf du Plessis (44 off 33) put up 125 for the first wicket, but RCB could put up only 183/3.
RR lost Yashasvi Jaiswal to the second ball of their innings, but Sanju Samson (69 off 42) and Jos Buttler (100 off 58) ensured that despite a very late surge of wickets, Rajasthan Royals never looked like they were out of the chase especially when the pair scored 20 runs off Mayank Dagar’s first over.
Here are all the important stats from this game
8 – Virat Kohli extended his record of scoring the most IPL centuries to eight centuries with this knock.
9 – Virat Kohli scored his 9th T20 century and broke the tie he held with David Warner, Michael Klinger and Aaron Finch at eight centuries each. Now only, Babar Azam(11) and Chris Gayle(22) have more centuries than him.
6 – Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis registered their sixth century partnership in the IPL to pull level with the pair of Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner who also have six. Only two pairs have more – Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle(9), Virat Kohli and AB de Villliers(10).
5 – Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis registered their fifth century partnership for the opening wicket in the IPL. This pair is now level with the pair of Jonny Bairstow and David Warner. Only one pair, David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan(6) have more.
6 – Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis’ sixth-century partnership now puts them at joint third with three other pairs (Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner, Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa) on the list of pairs with most century partnerships in all T20s. Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle (10), Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers (10), Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan(9) are the only pairs with more.
5 – Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis’ fifth-century partnership as the opening pair puts them at joint third with four other pairs (Finn Allen and Devon Conway, David Warner and Jonny Bairstow, Chris Nash and Luke Wright, D’arcy Short and Matthew Wade) on the list of pairs with most century stands for the first wicket. Only two pairs – David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan (6), Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan (8) have more.
67 – The 67 balls that Virat Kohli took to complete his century, are the joint most in an IPL innings. The other player who took 67 balls to score an IPL century was Manish Pandey.
72 – The 72 balls that Virat Kohli faced in this innings are the third most in an IPL innings. The top spot is shared by Brendon McCullum and Manish Pandey who played 73 each.
156.94 – Virat Kohli’s strike rate in this match. It is the sixth lowest for any IPL innings of 100 runs or more.
113* – Alongside being Virat Kohli’s highest IPL score, it is also the highest individual score at Jaipur, beating Ajinkya Rahane’s 105*.
3 – Jos Buttler became the third player after Virat Kohli and Ben Stokes to score two centuries while chasing in the IPL. Incidentally, Buttler’s other century in a run chase also came against RCB, in the Qualifier 2 of the 2022 edition.
6 – Jos Buttler scored his sixth IPL century and now has the joint second-most centuries in IPL alongside Chris Gayle.
3 – Virat Kohli became the first player to score three centuries in losing causes in IPL. The only other players with two are Hashim Amla and Sanju Samson.
3 – Virat Kohli’s third T20 century in a losing cause now puts him level with six different players (Babar Azam, Faf du Plessis, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Khurram Manzoor, Michael Klinger and Glenn Phillips) as the player with the joint second most centuries in losing causes in T20s. Chris Gayle leads the way here with six centuries in T20 losses.
3 – This is now the third IPL match where players from both teams (Virat Kohli and Jos Buttler) have scored centuries. The previous two instances were SRH vs RCB at Hyderabad (Heinrich Klassen and Virat Kohli) and RCB vs GT at Bengaluru (Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill) both in 2023.