In the sensational match of IPL 2024, Rajasthan Royals beat Kolkata Knight Riders by two wickets. It was an out-and-out Jos Buttler show for Rajasthan Royals, where the wicket-keeper batter got a hundred to take his team to victory.
In this match, Rajasthan Royals won the match and elected to bowl first. While batting first, KKR posted a mammoth total of 223 runs at the loss of six wickets. Thanks to Sunil Narine from KKR, who smashed his first century of IPL opening the innings with Philip Salt. Narine got 109 runs in 56 balls which includes 13 fours and six fours.
For Rajasthan Royals, Avesh Khan and Kuldeep Sen got two wickets each, and Trent Boult and Yuzvendra Chahal managed to get one wicket each in their kitty.
While chasing the target of 224 runs, Rajasthan Royals did not have a solid start and they lost Yashasvi Jaiswal at the score of 19 runs. After that skipper, Sanju Samson(12) also returned to the pavilion without any big contribution and then it was Riyan Parag(34) who got some runs along with Jos Buttler.
Rajasthan Royals needed 9 runs from the last six balls against Varun Chakravarthy which was easily accessible by Jos Buttler who scored 107 runs in 60 balls in this match.
For KKR, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, and Varun Chakravarthy got two wickets each, and Vaibhav Arora managed to get one wicket.
After this win, Rajasthan Royals sits at the top position along with 12 points, winning six matches out of seven games.
