Vinay Kumar
new Delhi. Rajasthan Royals (MI vs RR IPL 2022), batting first against Mumbai Indians on Saturday, April 2, scored 193 runs at the loss of 8 wickets due to the century innings of Jos Buttler. To make Mumbai Indians a target of 194 runs.
Jos Buttler played a big role in taking his team Rajasthan Royals to a good score with his scintillating century. Along with this, many records were also recorded in his name in this match. Butler became the first century batsman of IPL 2022. But, an unwanted record also became popular in his name. Along with this, the poor performance of Rohit Sharma, the captain of the most successful of the now technically most successful team of IPL, continued.
In this match against Mumbai Indians, Jos Buttler hit a century in just 66 balls. But, a record became famous with him that became the foreign batsman to score the slowest century in the history of IPL. Significantly, this is Butler’s second century in the IPL. He scored 124 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in IPL 2021. Apart from him in England players, Kevin Pietersen, Ben Stokes and Johnny Bairstow have scored centuries in the IPL. Ben Stokes has now got 2 centuries in the name of IPL.
The history of IPL tells that this was the sixth innings of Jos Buttler against Mumbai Indians in IPL. Earlier, his best score against MI was 94 not out. After the match played on Saturday, Butler has become the batsman with the highest average of 80 against MI. Before him, this record was in the name of KL Rahul, whose average was 66.10.
Jos Butler is the fourth batsman to score 2 centuries for Rajasthan Royals (RR) in IPL. Before him, Ajinkya Rahane (Ajinkya Rahane) IPL 2012, IPL 2019, Shane Watson (IPL 2013, IPL 2015) and Sanju Samson (Sanju Samson) have done this feat in IPL 2019, IPL 2020. Talking about, this is the 10th century in the IPL of Rajasthan Royals. Remind you that, Yousuf Pathan has scored 1-1 century in IPL 2010 and England all-rounder Ben Stokes in IPL 2020.
This is the seventh century of Rajasthan Royals against Mumbai Indians. For the team, Adam Gilchrist, Yusuf Pathan, AB de Villiers, Hashim Amla, KL Rahul and Ben Stokes have scored centuries against Mumbai Indians. . It is worth noting that Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) holds the record for hitting the most number of centuries by a team in IPL. RCB has so far scored 14 centuries. Punjab Kings is at number two with 13 centuries. Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Delhi Capitals (DC) are at the third position with 10-10 centuries. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have 9 centuries and Mumbai Indians MI have 4 centuries.