(Cricket news) 224 – The run chase by the Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens is currently tied for the best score in the IPL. at 2020 at Sharjah, they tied the record they had achieved when they chased down 224 against Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings).
The Royals needed 96 runs to begin the fifteenth over. In the last six IPL overs, this is the most runs that any team has successfully chased. In 2020, the Royals needed 92 runs in the last six overs of their 224-run chase.
0.32 – Royals’ chances of winning, according to ESPNcricinfo’s forecaster, at 14.1 overs when they were 128 for 6. In the next 30 balls, they scored 93 despite losing two more wickets.
7 – Centuries by Jos Buttler in the IPL, the second-most by any batter, only behind Virat Kohli’s eight.
240.74 – Buttler’s strike rate in the last six overs of the chase, where he scored 65 off 27 balls with six fours and five sixes. Between the seventh and the 14th overs, Buttler scored only 22 runs off the 21 balls he faced, hitting a solitary boundary.
1 – Sunil Narine is now the first player to score a hundred and take a five-wicket haul in the history of the IPL. Narine’s 109 against Royals marked his maiden T20 century, while his lone five-wicket haul in T20s also came in the IPL – 5 for 19 against Punjab in 2012.
3 – Players to have scored a century and bagged multiple wickets in an IPL match, including Narine on Tuesday. Chris Gayle had done this double twice – against Punjab in 2011 and Pune Warriors India in 2013, while Shane Watson achieved it against KKR in 2015.
3 – Hundreds for Buttler while chasing in the IPL, the most for any batter. Kohli and Ben Stokes are the only other batters with multiple hundreds while chasing in the IPL.
8 – T20 centuries by Buttler, the most by any player from England in this format, surpassing Luke Wright’s seven. All eight T20 hundreds by Buttler have come in the last three years. Only three batters have more T20 centuries than Buttler – Gayle (22), Babar Azam (11) and Kohli (9).
Three players to record an IPL century for KKR. The two centurions for KKR prior to Narine were Brendon McCullum’s 158* against the RCB in 2008 and Venkatesh Iyer’s 104 against the Mumbai Indians in 2023. After not scoring a century in any of their previous 83 games played at Eden Gardens, Narine’s century was also KKR’s first there.
Royals scored runs to their total of 103 after losing their sixth wicket. After the sixth wicket falls, they are the first side to score an additional 100 runs or more to win an IPL match. The previous record was set in 2016 when RCB scored 91 runs against the Gujarat Lions.
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