IPL 2022 Final: Jos Buttler Goes Past David Warner's 2016 IPL Mark To Finish Bumper 2022 Season

Jos Buttler might have cut a despondent figure as he strolled back to the Rajasthan Royals (RR) dressing room on Sunday subsequent to falling for 39 off 35 balls in the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL).

However, the score assisted him with moving past David Warner’s 2016 count and made him the second-highest run-scorer in a solitary season. Buttler has completed the season with 863 runs. David Warner scored 848 in 2016.

Jos Buttler Only Behind Virat Kohli

He has finished precisely 110 runs behind Virat Kohli’s 2016 count of 973 runs, which stays the most elevated that any player has overseen in a season. Having scored four centuries, Buttler is likewise tied for most tons in a season, which is attached with Kohli’s record that was set in 2016.

On Sunday, in any case, Buttler’s inning was not really a helpful one for RR, who hauled themselves to 130/9. The Gujarat Titans, who had crushed RR before in the primary qualifier, kept an upper hand on them all through the innings.

Hardik Pandya Dismisses Jos Buttler In The IPL 2022 Final

GT skipper Hardik Pandya drove the way by recording figures of 3/17. Buttler was one of the players who tumbled to Pandya as he edged a back of a length ball to the wicketkeeper in the thirteenth over.

Pandya had before excused RR skipper Sanju Samson and he followed up Buttler’s wicket with that of Shimron Hetmyer off the last ball of the fifteenth over. Each of the three has been RR’s most consistent run-scorers and Pandya’s spell removed the steam from the opponent’s innings.

Buttler had scored three centuries in the first phase of the league stage after which his form went on a decline. He then, at that point, scored his fourth hundred in Qualifier 2 against the Royal Challengers Bangalore, scoring an unbeaten 106 off 60 balls to lead them to a seven-wicket win.

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