IPL 2024: RR's Jos Buttler scores impressive ton vs KKR to keep THIS epic streak intact
IPL 2024: RR's Jos Buttler earns special remark after KKR ton, keeps THIS epic streak intact
Rajasthan Royals have continued their remarkable Indian Premier League (IPL) season after they beat Kolkata Knight Riders in a record-breaking chase at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday (April 16). A night highlighted by two tons, first from Sunil Narine and then from Jos Buttler had the crowd on the edge of their seats before the latter won the game for RR on the final ball of the match. In doing so, Buttler scored the eighth hundred of his T20 career. He now has seven centuries in IPL with Virat Kohli topping the table with eightIPL hundreds. The hundred and the win also saw him keep a special streak intact as RR now sit pretty at the top of the IPL standings.
Buttler keeps streak intact
Playing as an impact sub against KKR, Buttler scored his seventh hundred for RR in IPL history, walking into record books with a stellar record to his name, that ofhis side remaining unbeatenevery timehe has scored a ton. On the seven previous occasions with the 2008 champions, Buttler has always ended up on the winning side. This also includes a win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) earlier in the month where Virat Kohli scored a hundred at Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium.
His sole hundred at the international level was also in a winning cause for his team asEngland beat Sri Lanka in November 2021.
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What happened in KKR vs RR?
In another evening of record-breaking action, Buttler’s ton helped RR down KKR for their first defeat on home turf in the IPL 2024. RR won by two wickets after the England white-ball captain played an eye-catching innings to steal the spotlight from KKR centurion Sunil Narine. Needing 224 runs to win, RR won the match on the final ball, helping them register the joint-best record chase in the history of the tournament.
At the time of writing, in the last 36 hours of IPL action, several records have been broken, including the highest team score, the highest unsuccessful chase in history and yesterday’s highest successful chase.
