a look at all the important figures from Tuesday, April 16’s two-wicket victory over the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens by the Rajasthan Royals.
In the Indian Premier League, 224 is the joint-highest target that has been successfully tracked down. In Sharjah, RR has matched their own record from four years ago.
In the final six overs of an IPL run chase, 96 is the highest goal that has been successfully attained. The previous record also belongs to RR, who in 2020 in Sharjah needed 92 off 36 to win, but Rahul Tewatia’s 53 off 31 balls helped them to victory.
The most amount of runs scored by a side in an IPL victory is 103, which was contributed by the Rajasthan Royals following the removal of the sixth wicket. AB de Villiers and Iqbal Abdullah’s undefeated 91-run partnership during the Bengaluru-based team’s 159-run chase against the Gujarat Lions in the 2016 Qualifier 1 set a previous record of 91.
38-The unbeaten 38-run partnership between Jos Buttler and Avesh Khan, which came in behind Dwayne Bravo and Imran Tahir’s 41 for CSK versus MI in the IPL 2018 opener played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, is the second-highest partnership for ninth wicket or below in a successful IPL run-chase.
Three hundreds have been achieved for the IPL by the Kolkata Knight Riders, with Sunil Narine’s 109 off 56 being the most recent. Before Venkatesh Iyer scored 104 runs against the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium last year, Brendon McCullum scored the first in the inaugural IPL game against RCB in Bengaluru back in 2008. Iyer and Narine, two of KKR’s three IPL hundreds, have resulted in losses.
1. In an IPL match, Sunil Narine became the first player to ever score 100 runs, take a wicket, and make a catch. Prior to Narine, Chris Gayle and Shane Watson had each claimed two wickets in an IPL match while also scoring a hundred runs.
Just behind Virat Kohli’s eight hundreds, Buttler has scored the second-most in the IPL with seven hundred.
In the IPL, Buttler’s three hundreds while batting second is a record for a batsman. Ben Stokes (one each for RPS and RR) and Virat Kohli (two for RCB) are the only other players to have multiple IPL hundreds in run-chases.
Buttler faced 33 balls for his 42 in the first 14 overs of the innings on Tuesday, then in the last six, he produced an incredible show of ball-striking, smashing 65 off 27.
1. After smashing three IPL tons against MI and KKR, Buttler also made history as the first player to do so.
Several hundreds against an IPL squad
3-MI vs. KL Rahul
2-KKR vs. Jos Buttler
2- RCB vs. Jos Buttler
2-PBKS vs. Chris Gayle
2-GL vs. Virat Kohli
2-KKR vs. David Warner
Six times in IPL history, two hundreds have been scored in a single match; four of these occurrences occurred in 2023 and two in 2024, with Buttler being involved in both of the 2024 occasions.
In Twenty20 cricket, Jos Buttler amassed eight hundreds, a total only exceeded by Chris Gayle (22), Babar Azam (11), and Virat Kohli (9), and matched by Michael Klinger, Aaron Finch, David Warner, and Rohit Sharma. Buttler has amassed eight T20 hundreds in victories; Gayle is the only other player with more hundreds in a winning cause (16).
