Before saturday

Royal Challengers Bengaluru9RCB: Before Saturday’s match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru9RCB), Rajasthan Royals opener Jos Buttler had scored just 183 runs in his previous ten innings of the tournament. He had also been in a lean patch of late in white-ball cricket, leaving many worried over when Buttler would return to form.

But at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Buttler weathered the early storm and then brought out the attacking play to perfection in returning to form by exactly 100 runs off 58 balls, laced with nine fours and four sixes, in what was his sixth IPL century.

Through his brilliant knock which gave Rajasthan a six-wicket win to maintain their 100% percent win record, Buttler has also become only the second batter to score a century in his 100th IPL match, after KL Rahul.