Will Jacks played one of the historic knocks in Indian Premier League history after hitting his maiden IPL ton in the match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, on April 28 (Sunday). He hit back-to-back sixes against Rashid Khan to complete his century and to take RCB over the line. Even star batter Virat Kohli was left amazed after watching the insane striking from the English heavy-hitter.
Virat Kohli's reaction to Will Jack's century
Will Jacks only took 10 balls to complete his century after reaching the 50-run mark. He helped RCB pick up their third win of the season. He smashed 10 sixes and five fours during his knock. Jacks now have the fifth fastest hundred in IPL history. Virat Kohli's reaction to Will Jacks' heavy hitting is now going viral all across the social space. It was the sight of a million other people watching that knock from the Englishman.
Kohli praises Jacks' knock vs GT
RCB picked up a 9-wicket win over GT and Will Jacks made sure that they completed the chase within 16 overs. Virat Kohli was all praise for his teammate and said he was extremely happy to be able top wtness that knock so up close.
“Phenomenal, I mean when he initially came onto bat (on Jacks), he was a bit annoyed that he wasn't able to strike the ball as cleanly as he wanted to, but the only conversation between us in the middle was to keep backing, keep committing because we know how explosive he can be. My role completely changed as soon as he got that big over off Mohit, for good, I was glad to be watching the game from the other end. I mean, I thought we could win the game in 19 overs, but to finish it in 16 overs was an outstanding effort,” said Kohli in the post-match presentation.
“I think it was one of the better T20I hundreds one would ever see, I was just happy to watch it closely from the other end. The wicket was pretty good, I mean towards the later half of their innings, it started settling down and that was probably the reason why both teams wanted to bowl first., That was evident, the temperature went down, it got cooler and as the wicket settled down, the ball started to come nicely onto the bat. I was just having fun out there, hitting boundaries whenever needed. We never allowed the run-rate to go under 10 rpo at any point of the chase and to do that in the end what Jacks did,” he added.
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