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Best performances - Batsmen

WG Jacks
100(41) 5x4 - 10x6
Control %69%
  • Productive Shot
  • slog shot
  • 28 runs
  • 1x4 - 4x6
1 1 8 4 6 5 14 61
B Sai Sudharsan
84(49) 8x4 - 4x6
Control %85%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 16 runs
  • 3x4 - 0x6
10 0 9 8 29 12 6 9

Best performances - Bowlers

Swapnil Singh
Swapnil Singh
O3
M0
R23
W1
Eco7.66
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
GJ Maxwell
GJ Maxwell
O3
M0
R28
W1
Eco9.33
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Royal Challengers Bengaluru , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

15.30 start, First Session 15.30-17.00, Interval 17.00-17.20, Second Session 17.20-18.50

Match days

28 April 2024 - day/night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Royal Challengers Bengaluru 2, Gujarat Titans 0

Scorer: K Vairavan | Commentator: @himanshu_a30

END OF OVER:
16 | 29 Runs | RCB: 206/1 | RR: 12.87

  • Will Jacks100 (41b)
  • Virat Kohli70 (44b)
  • Rashid Khan4-0-51-0
  • Mohit Sharma2-0-41-0

The six-hitting spree continues this IPL. Jacks jams ten of them in an unbeaten century, when all the talk with RCB requiring the remaining 58 was about Kohli's potential hundred. But 29 runs each were plundered off two overs - there were three fours and seven sixes, all of Jacks' bat - as RCB won their second game in a row after a disappointing start to the season. But IPL action for this evening doesn't end here, as we shift to Chennai for CSK's game against SRH. Keep following for more pounding! Goodbye from Ahmedabad!

Will Jacks is the Player of the Match: "Amazing feeling right now. I struggled early on, but Virat kept his intensity. I just kept going. It was trying to be positive. Once I got Mohit Sharma away, I relaxed. It's amazing [to bat with Kohli]. To spend some time [with him] in the middle is a huge feeling. It just gave me some confidence to hit my first six. Needed to more adaptable at the beginning. Just lucky today - 17 off 17 don't win you many games!"

Faf du Plessis: "It was a really good wicket. When we bowled first, we certainly felt it was a score we could have gone after. We are making progress across departments. It feels like the confidence is starting to come... The bowlers took some great confidence [from the match against KKR]. We are doing the basics a lot better now."

Virat Kohli: "Phenomenal! When Jacks came in to bat, he couldn't strike the ball like he wanted to. But we know how explosive he can be. But he went after Mohit, and my role changed. I was just happy to be at the other end. Towards the end of their innings, the wicket started settling a bit. The wicket settles down, and the ball comes on nicely. We never dropped below ten an over through the innings. All people who talk about strike rates and me not playing spin well talk about these things [numbers]. It's just about doing my job... it's kind of muscle memory for me now. We can't carry on like we did in the first half. We are attacking the game way more. That's the way we want to play our cricket. And it's not been up to the standard except in the last two games... It's about us as cricketers having some self-respect."

Vikram: "14.2, Jacks 50. 15.5, Jacks 100*... Just unbelievable"

Shubman Gill: "It was great hitting by them. But having said that, we need to come up with better plans. At the end of the day what matters is how much you've got after 20 overs. We thought it was enough for us to have a good match. We were not able to pick up wickets in the middle overs, which is one of our strengths."

Rakesh: "We were waiting on Kohli's hundred, and Jacks came out of the syllabus."

Afeef: "Jacks in his first 17 balls scored just 17 runs. Then he scored 83 runs off his next 24 balls! Amazing hitting."

6.50pm So RCB somehow remain afloat. But it will be all about Jacks tonight. He was on 31 off 24 balls at one stage; he ended with 100* from 41 in a superb effort to completely blow GT away! Out of his last 17 balls, there were four fours and nine sixes crashed across the ground. As a result, RCB end up hunting down 201 with four overs and nine wickets to spare. That's a massive boost to their NRR, but they remain tenth for now.

15.6
6
Rashid Khan to Jacks, SIX, hundred for Jacks! This is ridiculous hitting, and Kohli's expression at the other end says it all. Jacks get there off just 41 balls, including smashing ten sixes. Out came the across-the-line heave off this full delivery, and the ball flew somewhere between the deep-square or deep-midwicket region

Jacks on 94, and RCB need one

15.5
6
Rashid Khan to Jacks, SIX, more fun for Jacks! He is on 94 now, one hit away from a hundred. Full again from Rashid, but this one turns away from middle, and is drilled over fine leg
15.4
4
Rashid Khan to Jacks, FOUR, bashed to deep square! Fuller length, and the googly ending on leg, as Jacks had a swing, but the ball came off the inside half of the bat
15.3
6
Rashid Khan to Jacks, SIX, again goes over deep square! My fingers are paining, but my job role doesn't allow you to assume how this ball went. Rashid bowled short for the third ball in a row, and Jacks pulled again for six more
15.2
6
Rashid Khan to Jacks, SIX, dumped over deep square leg! Rashid bowls short again, and Jacks clears his front leg to pull that hard and high for another six
15.1
1
Rashid Khan to Kohli, 1 run, bowls short on the stumps, and Kohli pulls to deep square to bring up 500 runs for the season

Rashid returns

Indian Premier League

TeamMWLPTNRR
KKR1493201.428
SRH1485170.414
RR1485170.273
RCB1477140.459
CSK1477140.392
DC147714-0.377
LSG147714-0.667
GT145712-1.063
PBKS145910-0.353
MI144108-0.318