Jos Buttler on Friday continued his phenomenal form with the willow as he notched up his third century of the ongoing IPL edition. The Rajasthan Royals star seemed to be in a world of his own, reaching the three-figure mark off just 57 deliveries against Delhi Capitals at the Wankhede Stadium. The Englishman’s sublime hundred was laced with eight fours and as many sixes at the iconic venue in Mumbai.
Buttler started off in a cautious manner, scoring his first 11 off 14 deliveries. He shifted gears as the game progressed to hit a 36-ball fifty. The floodgates opened after that as the right-hander touched his hundred in the next 21 balls.
Buttler inched closer to Virat Kohli’s record of scoring four hundreds in a single IPL season. The Indian batter was the top run-scorer of the 2016 IPL edition, where he amassed 973 runs from 16 matches, which included four centuries and seven half-centuries.
Chris Gayle, Hashim Amla, Shane Watson and Shikhar Dhawan are the other four batters to have multiple IPL tons to their name. All have got two centuries each with Dhawan being the latest one to achieve the milestone.
The left-handed India batter had scored two tons in 2020 while Shane Watson and Hashim Alma had scripted the feat in the 2018 and 2017 editions respectively. Chris Gayle had hit two tons back in 2011 while playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
