RRvsRCB: The team lost even after Virat's victory, is this the reason responsible?

• Batting first, RCB team made a great start.
  
• Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis made a partnership of 125 runs in 84 balls for the first wicket.
  
• RR performed well in the second innings and gave a blow to RCB.
  

The 19th match of IPL 2024 was played between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Rajasthan Royals team won this match very easily. With this victory, Rajasthan Royals team has reached the first position in the points table. Two players scored centuries in this match. In which the names of Virat Kohli and Jos Buttler were included. Even after Virat Kohli's century, Royal Challengers Bangalore had to face defeat. Virat Kohli played an inning of 113 runs in 72 balls in this match. After the match, the discussion became very heated that Virat Kohli had played a very slow innings. Because of this his team lost the match. However, Virat Kohli's strike rate in this match was 156.94.

how was the match?

In this match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals, RR captain Sanju Samson won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, the RCB team made a great start. Opener Virat Kohli and team captain Faf du Plessis made a partnership of 125 runs in 84 balls for the first wicket. By this time it seemed that the team would easily score more than 200 runs, but apart from Virat Kohli and Faf, no batsman could score runs fast. In this match, Faf scored 44 runs in 33 balls, Maxwell scored one run in 3 balls, Saurav Chauhan scored 9 runs in 6 balls and Green scored 5 runs in 6 balls. The short innings of the remaining batsmen weighed heavily on the RCB team and they scored 183 runs at the loss of three wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.

RR performed brilliantly in the second innings

RCB made a great start in the second innings of the match and gave a big blow to Rajasthan Royals in the very first over. In the first over of the match, Reece Topley sent Yashasvi Jaiswal to the pavilion, but after this wicket, RCB yearned for a wicket and Jos Buttler made a partnership of 148 runs with captain Sanju Samson for the second wicket. Meanwhile, Sanju Samson scored 69 runs in 42 balls. After Sanju's wicket, there was nothing special left in the match for RCB. On one hand, Butler controlled the innings and scored a century in 58 balls to win the match for his team. RR scored 189 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 19.1 overs and won the match by 6 wickets.

Difference in innings of Virat and Butler

In this match, Virat Kohli and Jos Buttler scored centuries for their respective teams. But there was a lot of difference in the centuries of both the players. Butler's century won the match, while Virat's century somehow made his team lag behind in the match. On one hand, Virat Kohli played innings in this match at a strike rate of 156.94. While Butler scored a century at a strike rate of 172.41. Although Virat's speed was not low, but according to this match his innings looks inferior. On the other hand, along with Butler, other players of his team also played fast innings, but this is not the case with Virat. The innings of his teammates was very slow. In such a situation, it would not be wrong to say that the team lost the match because of the innings of Virat and his teammates.