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Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli in action against RR | Sportzpics / IPL On a night of milestones, Royal Challengers Bangalore maintained their perfect start to the 2021 season in the Indian Premier League with their fourth straight win, improving on their best-ever start to the tournament. It was also RCB’s 200th match in the IPL, as they became the second franchise after Mumbai Indians to reach that milestone. The headlines though belonged to young Devdutt Padikkal, who scored his first IPL hundred and skipper Virat Kohli, who became the first batsman to cross 6,000 runs in the tournament. Pace bowlers Mohammed Siraj and Harshal Patel claimed three wickets each to set up victory after Bangalore kept Rajasthan down to 177/9. ....
via ESPNCricinfo Now, that got us thinking. KKR have not done half bad in the tournament over the years. They are the only team other than Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians to have won multiple IPL titles. Is it a big deal that they have not had a centurion since their current head coach? Make no mistake, hitting a century in a T20 match more often than that helps your side win. For instance, in the IPL, out of the 63 scored so far, 48 have been centuries in winning cause while only 15 have come in defeats. That’s a success rate just more than 76%. ....