Virat scored the slowest century of IPL: Most catches in the tournament are also in his name, Butler's century in the 100th match…Records

The first century of the 17th season was scored in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Saturday. Virat Kohli of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) played an unbeaten inning of 113 runs on 72 balls. However, his century did not work for the team and the team was defeated by Rajasthan by 6 wickets. Jos Buttler from Rajasthan scored a century in his 100th IPL match.

Virat scored his 8th century in IPL, with this his 7500 runs were also completed. He became the first player to do so. Virat also became the player with the most catches in IPL. On the other hand, Jos Buttler became the first player to score 6 centuries in the first 100 IPL matches.

Records of RCB vs RR match…

1. Virat completes 7500 runs
RCB's Virat Kohli has completed 7500 runs in IPL. He achieved this record as soon as he scored the 34th run in the innings. He became the first batsman to score 7500 runs in IPL, making him the top run scorer in the tournament history. Virat was playing his 242nd match in IPL. The second top scorer of IPL is Shikhar Dhawan of Punjab, who has 6755 runs in his name.

2. Virat has the most number of IPL centuries
Virat Kohli scored his first century against RR and the 8th of his IPL career. Virat already holds the record for scoring the most centuries in tournament history. After him is Chris Gayle, who has scored 6 IPL centuries.

3. Virat's century did not work for the team for the third time
Virat Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 113 runs but his innings did not help the team. RCB scored 183 runs in 20 overs. Rajasthan achieved the target of 184 runs in just 19.1 overs. This happened for the third time in IPL when Virat scored a century and the team lost. In this matter, Virat got ahead of Punjab's Hashim Amla, whose 2 centuries led to the team's defeat. Rajasthan captain Sanju Samson's two centuries also came in the team's defeat.

4. Virat played 70+ balls for the first time in IPL
Virat Kohli scored 113 runs in 72 balls, which means he batted about 12 overs. This is the first time in Virat's IPL career that he has played more than 70 balls. The record for playing the most balls in an innings of the tournament is in the name of Brendon McCullum, who had scored 158 runs playing 73 balls in the first IPL match in 2008.

5. Virat scored the slowest IPL century
Virat Kohli took 67 balls to complete his century, with this he became the batsman to score a century on most balls in IPL. He broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar, who had scored a century on 66 balls. Manish Pandey is also at par with Virat in this record, he had scored a century on 67 balls for RCB in 2009.

6. Record 18th century for RCB
With Virat's 8 centuries, now RCB batsmen have scored 18 centuries in T-20 history. These include 5 centuries of Chris Gayle and 4 centuries of AB de Villiers. With this the team became the team to score the most centuries in T-20 history. RCB left behind Team India, whose players have scored 17 centuries. Among these, Rohit Sharma is at first place with 5 centuries and Suryakumar Yadav is at second place with 4 centuries.

7. Virat became the player who took the most catches in IPL
Virat Kohli took the catch of Riyan Parag against Rajasthan on Saturday. With this, he took 110 catches in IPL and he also became the player with the most catches in the tournament history. He broke the record of Suresh Raina, who took 109 catches in the tournament.

8. Butler became the second player to score a century in his 100th match.
Rajasthan Royals' Jos Buttler played the 100th match of his IPL career on Saturday. He became only the second player in the league to score a century in his 100th match. Before him, KL Rahul had scored a century against Mumbai in 2022. Butler played an unbeaten inning of 100 runs on 58 balls.

9. Buttler has the most centuries in 100 IPL matches.
Jos Buttler scored the sixth century of his IPL career on Saturday. He was playing only his 100th match. With this, Butler became the player who scored the most centuries in the first 100 IPL matches. He left behind Chris Gayle, who had scored 5 centuries in 100 IPL matches.

10. 2 centuries scored in an IPL match for the 5th time
This is the fifth time in IPL that two centuries have been scored in the same match. In 2016, during the match between RCB and Gujarat, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers scored centuries. Both played for the same team. This happened twice in 2023, while in 2024 it happened for the first time. This happened once in 2019 also. The special thing is that RCB were involved in all the five matches and in these only Virat Kohli scored centuries 4 times.

11. Butler became the second top run scorer of Rajasthan.
Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson played an inning of 69 runs on Saturday. With this inning, he also completed 4000 runs in his IPL career. He is Rajasthan's top run scorer in the tournament, having scored 3389 runs for the team. In this case, Jos Buttler reached second place, who now has 2831 runs. He left behind Ajinkya Rahane, who has 2372 runs in his name from Rajasthan.

12. Butler-Samson made its third century partnership
Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson made a partnership of 148 runs for the second wicket against RCB. This was the third century partnership between the two in the tournament. Both came on top in the highest century partnership for RR. Earlier, Graeme Smith and Swapnil Asnodkar had made a 2nd century partnership for RR.