Butler creates history in IPL, becomes first batsman to do so

In the 31st match of IPL 2024, Jos Buttler (Jos Buttler vs KKR) played an innings which will always be remembered. Butler single-handedly gave Rajasthan a historic victory against KKR by scoring a century. At one time Rajasthan was on the verge of defeat but Butler suddenly performed a miracle and helped the team win by 2 wickets. In this match, Butler played an innings of 107 runs in 60 balls. Butler hit 9 fours and 6 sixes in his innings. Butler's innings once again proved that "cricket is a game of uncertainties".

This is Butler's seventh century in the IPL. Butler is second after Kohli in the list of scoring most centuries in IPL. Apart from this, Butler has defeated Kohli (Jos Buttler vs Virat Kohli) in a special matter. This is Butler's third century while chasing the target in IPL, whereas Virat has scored two centuries in this case. Here Butler has ended Kohli's reign.

Overall, this is Butler's eighth century in T-20, Butler has also become the batsman who has scored the most centuries in T-20 for England. Rajasthan's 6 wickets had fallen at 121 runs. After this the team won by adding 103 runs. Rajasthan team has become the first team which has achieved the feat of adding more than 100 after the fall of 6 wickets and has also succeeded in winning the match.

In the last 5 overs, Royals needed 96 runs to win. This is the highest number of runs successfully chased by any team in the last six overs in IPL. Chasing the target of 224 runs, Royals needed 92 runs in the last 6 overs.