Written by: Dip Rajbahak - 2022008, Grade X
Posted on: 03 November, 2020
The Indian Premier League(IPL) is a professional t20 cricket league which is played in India. Every year 8 different teams from each state of India represent in the IPL. In 2019 match number eleven was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in India. Which is the home ground of Hyderabad but the toss favours RCB’s captain Virat Kholi, who won the toss and chose to bowl first. So the match started with Umesh Yadav with the ball, David Warner and Jonny Bairstow are in the striker and non-striker end. So Warner and Bairstow opened their inning as usual for the SRH they started to counter from the very first ball and Warner and Bairstow started to hit boundaries and SRH got a very good start. RCB were desperately needed for wickets and wanted to break down the partnership of both batsmen. As both stood for 100 runs partnership and Jonny had already scored half-century so he became brute and started hitting maximum and he scored a hundred and Warner was in 70 not out. Their partnership wasn’t still broken but a super delivery from leg spinner Chahal. Trapped Jonny and the 185 runs partnership between them finally ended as Jonny scored his maiden century in IPL and got out scoring 114 from 56 balls.
After Jonny’s wicket, RCB got a bit of relief but Warner was still in the crease, and after Jonny’s wicket Warner again tried to encounter and he too scored his century from 55 balls and not out in this inning as Vijay Shankar got runout in ending over and SRH gave RCB 232 target at the loss of 2 wickets. So, in the second inning RCB batter came for a huge run-chase but that day wasn't RCB they lost the first wicket of their opener in just 13 runs on the board. Skipper Kohli also didn’t stay in the crease for long; he got out in just 3 runs. AB De Villiers also got out scoring single digit. And wicket started to tumble and they got all out in 113 runs. Jonny and Warner created history, it’s the fourth time when 2 players scored centuries in the same inning in t20 format. And Jonny Bairstow was awarded as the man of the match for his destructive batting, scoring 114runs from just 56 balls and even it was his maiden IPL century.
