Indian Premier League 2023: So far this season of IPL, 3 century innings have been seen. During this, there are some batsmen who despite reaching very close to the century, could not succeed in completing it. So far this season, 5 such innings have been seen where the batsman scored more than 90 runs but could not complete the century. It also includes the name of Rajasthan Royals player Jos Buttler, who has scored 5 centuries in the IPL so far.
The 5 players whose names are included in this list are Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler. Chennai Super Kings opening batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad scored an inning of 92 against Gujarat Titans in the very first match of this season. However, this innings of Gaikwad could not win his team. Chennai had to face defeat by 5 wickets in this match.
The bat of Punjab Kings team captain Shikhar Dhawan has also been seen speaking fiercely this season. Dhawan played an unbeaten inning of 99 runs in the match played against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Punjab team had to face defeat by 8 wickets in this match. Devon Conway played an unbeaten inning of 92 runs in the match against Punjab Kings. In this match, Chennai was later defeated by 4 wickets.
Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler also reached very close to the century
In this season of IPL, on the day of May 7, 2 innings were seen where the batsman could not complete it despite coming very close to the century. The first innings was seen with the bat of Gujarat Titans batsman Shubman Gill. Gill played an unbeaten inning of 94 runs in 51 balls in the match against Lucknow Super Giants. The Gujarat team won this match by 56 runs.
After this, the second innings was seen with the bat of Joss Butler in the match between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Butler came very close to his sixth IPL century in this match, but on the score of 95, Bhuvneshwar Kumar did not allow him to complete the century by sending the pavilion.
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