Virat Kohli rewrites the record books with brilliant Will Jack partnership against GT. cricket news

The challenging target of 201 runs for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) against Gujarat Titans (GT) turned into child’s play in just a few overs as Virat Kohli and Will Jacks made fun of the 2022 champions. ‘The spin trio of Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmed, Sai Kishore and fast bowler Mohit Sharma with their incredible sixes. He took the fans down memory lane and reminded them of Virat’s heroics with AB de Villiers against Gujarat Lions in the 2016 season, where they both scored centuries and shared a 229-run partnership for the second wicket.

Both of them made a partnership of 166 runs in just 73 balls and helped their team win by nine wickets. Virat, holding one end, scored unbeaten 70 runs in 44 balls with the help of six fours and three sixes, while Jack created an unprecedented havoc after completing his half-century in 31 balls with the help of five fours and 10 sixes in 41 balls. Completed his century. In the race to hit a six.

Here are the records rewritten and broken by Jacques-Virat during their partnership:

-10 balls: Jacques took just 10 balls to convert his half-century into a match-winning century. This is the shortest time taken by a player to reach a century in the IPL. The previous best performance was by Chris Gayle, who took only 13 balls to convert his half-century into a century and reach three figures in just 30 balls against Pune Warriors in 2013.

-This is RCB’s second 200-plus target in IPL history, coming after a huge gap of 14 years. The Red and Gold team over the years has given superstar batsmen like Virat, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, Kevin Pietersen etc. a platform to showcase their proven, international-level performances for the franchise . A gap existed. RCB’s last 200-plus chase came against Punjab Kings in March 2010, when Jacques Kallis (89*) and Robin Uthappa (51*) helped them successfully chase 204.

-RCB is the first team in IPL to win by nine or more wickets while chasing a target of more than 200 runs.

-The exciting franchise still had 24 balls left when a huge six from Jacques helped him bring up his century and the team’s third win. This is the biggest win in terms of balls remaining in IPL history (and jointly the biggest win in all of T20 cricket), surpassing MI’s win over RCB in 2023 when they had 23 balls to spare while chasing 200. Were.

-Virat played his best game against spin, combining Rashid, Noor and Sai with class and consistency which he has not shown against spinners for a long time. Apart from spin, Virat, who is known for attacking fast bowlers, appeared in a different style in this match. He scored 61 of his 70 runs against spin, the most against spin in a single T20 innings. Additionally, his strike rate against spinners was 179.41, which was his third highest against spinners in the IPL, behind 240.90 in 2016 (53 off 22 balls out of a total of 113 off 50 balls) against Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Gujarat in 2016. After 188.46 against. Lions in 2016 (scored 49 off 26 balls in a total of 109 off 55 balls).

-Afghanistan T20 superstar, Rashid Khan continued his tough performance in IPL 2024 as he was given a beating to remember. Virat took one run in the 16th over and Jack wreaked havoc by scoring 6,6,4,6,6 in the next five balls and gave away 29 runs from the over. This is Rashid’s most expensive over in the entire T20 cricket.

-Jaques scored 95 runs in the middle overs (overs seven to 16), which is the third highest score by a batsman in an IPL innings during the middle overs, behind only Virender Sehwag who scored 95 runs in the middle overs in Deccan in 2011. 107 runs were scored against Chargers and Gayle scored 105 runs. In this phase against PWI in 2013.

-For Virat, this is the seventh season where he has scored 500 or more runs. He is the first Indian to do so and the second player after David Warner to achieve this feat.

-All four of Jacques’ T20 centuries have come off 50 balls or less, with the fastest coming off 41 balls for Pretoria Capitals against Durban Super Giants (DSG) in SA20 2024. Gayle (10), Maxwell (5) and Suryakumar Yadav (4) are the other players to score four or more centuries in 50 or less balls in T20 cricket.

Talking about the match, half-centuries from Sai Sudarshan (84 from 49 balls, with the help of 12 fours and four sixes) and Shahrukh Khan (58 from 28 balls, with the help of three fours and five sixes) helped GT recover from a slow start with the bat. Helped to recover. David Miller’s useful innings of 26* off 19 balls with two fours and a six helped GT reach 200/3 in 20 overs.

Swapnil Singh, Mohammad Siraj and Maxwell got one wicket each.

In the run-chase, captain Faf du Plessis (24 off 12 balls, with one four and three sixes) was out early, but Jacques and Virat stitched a memorable partnership to win the game for their team.

Jacques received the ‘Player of the Match’ award.

RCB are at the bottom with three wins, seven losses and six points. GT is in seventh place with four wins, six losses and eight points.