IPL 2018, MI vs RR: Hits and Misses

#1 Hit: Jos Buttler

Jos Buttler struck his fifth consecutive half-century and took RR home with another unbeaten match-winning knock.

After scoring yet another match-winning knock, Jos Buttler equalled Virender Sehwag’s feat of scoring 5 fifties in a row which is the joint highest in IPL cricket. The England wicket-keeper batsman has been simply magnificent in the last five games. He has scored five consecutive fifties and has been one of the main reasons for RR’s late resurgence.

In the last game, he scored an unbeaten 95 against CSK to take the team home in a tense run-chase. In this game, it was once again a similar effort. But the 27-year-old stumper started off slowly in this game. In his first seven deliveries, he scored just 4 before launching Krunal Pandya for a four and a six to get going. Since then it was once again the Jos Buttler show.

He reached his half-century in 35 balls and then batted through and saw RR home. He scored a magnificent 94 and once again proved to be the difference between the two sides.