Playing their second match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 at the Arun Jaitley Rajasthan Royals (RR) came up with an improved all-round performance against SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH). A lot of credit for the 55-run win goes to Jos Buttler for amassing a scintillating hundred which was also his first in the history of IPL on Sunday. Rajasthan rode on superb bowling performances from Mustafizur Rahman (3/20) and Chris Morris (3/29) to restrict Hyderabad to 165 for 8 on Sunday.
Jos Buttler scored his maiden IPL century for RRChasing a record total of 221 runs to win the game, Hyderabad got off to a superb start as Manish Pandey and Jonny Bairstow added 57 runs for the first wicket in just 6.1 overs before Mustafizur Rahman cleaned up Pandey on 31. Bairstow was the next to depart as Rahul Tewatia was the one who dismissed him.
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Kane Williamson’s first outing as SRH skipper in IPL 2021 was far from impressive as he played a below-average knock of a 21-ball 20 before Kartik Tyagi removed him. Chris Morris returned with excellent figures of 3/20 as he got the wicket of Vijay Shankar (8), Kedar Jadhav (19), and Abdul Samad (10) to derail Rajasthan Royals’ chase.
Earlier, opener Jos Buttler had smashed his maiden IPL hundred to power Rajasthan Royals to 220 for 3 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Put into bat, Buttler (124 off 64 balls) and skipper Sanju Samson, who smashed 48 off 33 balls, stitched a brilliant partnership of 150 runs.
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There was no stopping Buttler, who was in complete control, as he continued to smash boundaries in regular intervals. Sandeep Sharma eventually brought his innings to an end of the penultimate over. But as good as his innings was, what was arguably better was Buttler’s celebration. He adopted teammate Riyan Parag’s ‘selfie’ celebration to mark the special occasion.
Here is the video of the incident:
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Here is how netizens reacted to the celebration:
Ee parag gadi effect. Buttler kuda bat tho selfie teeskuntnadu😂😂😂😂
— Johnnie Walker🚁 (@Johnnie5ir) May 2, 2021
Buttler was 37(35) at one stage and ended with 124(64)
That's 87 of last 28 balls🥶
Some serious spanking from Jos🔥#RR #RRvSRH
— Sujith (@isujithh) May 2, 2021
Buttler was 37(35) at one stage and ended with 124(64)
That's 87 of last 28 balls🥶
Some serious spanking from Jos🔥#RR #RRvSRH
— Sujith (@isujithh) May 2, 2021
Buttler 19th over 24 runs
— manoj 🧑💻🏏📱🍨🦅 (@ganeshmanoj) May 2, 2021
Buttler🤜🤛Samson. Superb century by Buttler. Amazing display of stroke play was at Delhi Stadium.#IPL2021 #RRvSRH pic.twitter.com/5lqYLHJPPJ
— Zulqarnain Mushtaq (@zulqarnain531) May 2, 2021
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