Jacques, who scored only 17 runs in the first 17 balls, hit five fours and 10 sixes in his unbeaten innings.

IPL 2024, RCB VS Gujarat : Will Jacques' aggressive innings of unbeaten 100 runs in 41 balls helped Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeat Gujarat Titans by nine wickets with four overs remaining in the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 match here on Sunday. Gujarat had scored 200 runs for three wickets when invited to bat first but RCB scored 206 runs at the loss of one wicket in just 16 overs and registered their third win in 10 matches. This is Gujarat's sixth defeat in 10 matches.

Jacques, who scored only 17 runs in the first 17 balls, hit five fours and 10 sixes in his unbeaten innings. He hit a total of seven sixes and three fours while scoring 29-29 runs against Mohit Sharma and Rashid Khan in the 15th and 16th overs respectively.

Jacques made an unbroken partnership of 166 runs in just 74 balls for the second wicket with the legendary Virat Kohli (70 not out). Kohli answered critics who questioned his strike rate by hitting six fours and three sixes in his 44-ball innings. During this period, Virat Kohli completed 500 runs in the current IPL season. This is the seventh time that Kohli has scored more than 500 runs in an IPL season.

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The only success for Gujarat Titans came from Sai Kishore (1 wicket for 30 runs in three overs). Other bowlers of the team proved to be very expensive. B Sai Sudarshan's unbeaten inning of 84 runs in 49 balls took Gujarat Titans to a big score. He made two important partnerships with eight fours and four sixes.

Sai Sudarshan brought the team back into the match with a partnership of 86 runs in 45 balls with Shahrukh Khan (58) for the third wicket and then made an unbroken partnership of 69 runs in 36 balls with David Miller (26) for the fourth wicket.

Shahrukh hit three fours and five sixes in his 30-ball innings, which helped the team recover from a slow start. Miller hit two fours and a six in his 19-ball innings. Mohammed Siraj, Glenn Maxwell and Swapnil Singh took one wicket each for RCB.

Chasing the target, Faf Du Plessis gave RCB a fast start with sixes off Sandeep Warrier and Azmatullah Omarzai but Sai Kishore ended his flamboyant innings of 24 runs in 12 balls in the fourth over.

Till now, Virat Kohli, who was playing cautiously from the other end, after hitting a four against Rashid Khan, opened his hand with sixes on consecutive balls of Sai Kishore. With this, RCB scored 63 runs for one wicket in the power play. Rashid and Noor Ahmed bowled tightly but Kohli and Jacques cleverly played the ball in the gap against Afghanistan's spinners and stole runs and hit four fours from Satawe till the 10th over. During this, Kohli completed his half-century in 32 balls.

RCB touched the 100-run mark in the 11th over, after which Jacques and Kohli strengthened the team's hold on the match by hitting sixes in the overs of Mohit Sharma, Noor and Sai Kishore.

After hitting two fours and three sixes against Mohit in the 15th over, Jacques completed his century by hitting one four and four sixes against Rashid and gave a big win to RCB. Earlier, Swapnil gave a good start to RCB by dismissing Wriddhiman Saha (five) in the opening over itself.

After this, Shubman Gill (16) hit a four against Siraj while B Sai Sudarshan hit fours on consecutive balls of Swapnil. However, RCB bowlers did not give them a chance to play openly in the power play. Gujarat team could score only 42 runs for one wicket in the first six overs. Maxwell, who was returning to the team from this match, brought great success to the team by dismissing Gill.

Gujarat's batsmen started scoring runs rapidly from the eighth over when Sai Sudarshan hit sixes and fours against Karn Sharma while Shahrukh Khan hit sixes and fours against Maxwell.

Shahrukh continued his aggressive attitude and delivered the ball to the audience against Karn and Green in the next two overs, while with Sai Sudarshan's six against Karn on the first ball of the 12th over, both of them completed a half-century partnership in 27 balls. In the same over, Shahrukh completed his team's century of runs with the fourth six of his innings. He completed his first half-century of IPL in 24 balls by hitting two fours and then a six against Green in the next over.

In search of the wicket, the captain handed the ball to Siraj and he ended his excellent innings by bowling Shahrukh on the first ball of the over. In the same over, Sai Sudarshan completed his half-century in 34 balls with fours and then one run.

After this, Sai Sudarshan took the responsibility of scoring runs quickly and hit a six against Maxwell and a hat-trick four against Green. He hit a spectacular six against Siraj over the wicketkeeper and fine leg, while Miller sent the last ball of the innings against Dayal into the spectators' gallery to take the team to 200 runs.

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