GT vs RR: Can Jos Buttler overtake David Warner's run tally of 848 in IPL 2022 final?
India Today
Rajasthan Royals (RR) opener Jos Buttler needs 25 runs in the IPL 2022 Final vs Gujarat Titans to break David Warner's run tally of 848 runs in the IPL season.
Rajasthan Royals star opener Jos Buttler is in red-hot form, having scored 824 runs at an average of 59 with four hundred and four half-centuries and is certain to finish with the Orange Cap - awarded to the tournament's leading run-scorer. Notably, Buttler — placed third on the all-time IPL scorers’ list in a single season — is just 25 runs shy of taking second-placed David Warner’s place.
Warner accumulated 848 runs for SRH in 2016. While Warner’s scores are well within reach of Buttler when RR take on GT in the final on Sunday, reaching Virat Kohli’s all-time record of 973 runs in a season (2016), is a bit far-fetched, given that the England cricketer will need to score 150 to go past the veteran Indian batter.
Buttler went past David Warner's 190-run tally in the playoffs this season.
"My reading watching that entire (Buttler) innings was that he was actually because he felt that he was one of the key players and the target wasn’t huge, playing a slightly responsible inning, and it was that kind of an innings (vs RCB in Qualifier 2) where I’ve tweeted after a long time saying where you play to the merit of the ball that kind of an innings and he’s got a 106 off just 60 balls," Manjrekar said on ESPNcricinfo’s T20 Time: Out that.
"Just spotted one shot against (Josh) Hazlewood where he sort of played that T20 kind of shot. (But) All the others were him waiting for the ball to be loose by his standards, so the margin for error for the bowlers was minimal.
