Will Jacques scored a century in 41 balls in the match against Gujarat.
The first match of the day (April 28) in IPL 2024 was played between Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bangalore. In this match, Gujarat scored 200 runs while batting first and RCB achieved this target with 24 balls and 9 wickets remaining. The biggest contribution in this victory of RCB was from Will Jacques and Virat Kohli.
In this match, Virat Kohli scored 70 runs in 44 balls, while Will Jacques batted stormily and scored unbeaten 100 runs in 41 balls. During his innings, Jacques hit five fours and 10 sixes. Let us tell you that during the century innings, Jacques’ strike rate was 243.90 and during this period he hit some such shots which even Virat Kohli himself was surprised to see.
Virat Kohli gave such a reaction on Will Jacques’ shot
Will Jacques gave away 29 runs in one over to Gujarat’s best and experienced bowler Rashid Khan. In this over, Jacques hit four sixes and one four against Rashid. Even Virat Kohli himself was surprised to see the two big shots that Will Jacques hit on the second and last ball of that over and his reaction to it was worth seeing.
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After the match, Kohli praised Jacques’ performance and described his innings as unprecedented. Kohli described Mohit Sharma’s over as important and expressed happiness over the team’s quick victory. “Unprecedented, initially when he (Jaques) came to bat, he was angry that he was not able to hit the ball the way he wanted to,” Virat was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz.
The only thing for him was to stay calm, we know how explosive he can be when he gets going. Mohit (Sharma)’s over was a game changer, I was happy to be around him, I thought we would win in 19 overs, but to do it in 16 overs was absolutely brilliant. As the first innings progressed, the pitch started to get better. Gaya, the ball was coming well on the bat.