Delhi: The Gujarat Titans (GT) made a great start to its IPL 2025 campaign, when he defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the match played at his home ground M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. In this victory, GT’s most expensive player Jose Butler (Rs 15.75 crore) batted an unbeaten half -century and won his team.
Butler’s record performance against RCB
Jose Butler played a brilliant innings of 73* runs against RCB, including 5 fours and 6 sixes. With this performance, he has scored a total of 585 runs against RCB in IPL. He has scored this run at an average of 53.18 and a strike rate of 158.10. With this innings, Butler has become the first player in IPL history to score more than 500 runs against RCB at an average of 50+ and a strike rate of 150+. So far, only two other batsmen have set such a record against one team in the IPL.
- , Chris Gayle Has scored 797 runs against Punjab Kings at an average of 53.13 and a strike rate of 174.78.
- , AB de Villiers Has scored an average of 57.5 against Delhi Capitals and 575 runs at a strike rate of 161.06.
GT won the match by 8 wickets
Gujarat Titans won the toss and decided to bowl first and put RCB in trouble from the beginning. RCB’s innings stumbled and by the 7th over, the team lost 4 wickets for just 42 runs. However, after this, the team scored a respectable score of 169/8 thanks to Liam Livingstone (54) and Tim David (32 runs in 18 balls). In bowling, Mohammad Siraj performed brilliantly with 3 wickets and put pressure on GT batsmen for 19 runs.
However, the Gujarat Titans team never appeared in trouble while chasing the target. He achieved this target with 8 wickets winning with 13 balls remaining. Jose Butler scored 73 runs, while Sai Sudarshan remained unbeaten after scoring 49 runs.
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