KL Rahul reached a special milestone within the Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans match on Saturday. In the thirtieth recreation of IPL 2023, LSG skipper scored 14 runs and reached 7000 run-mark in T20s. He surpassed Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan to prime the record of Indians to rating quickest 7000 runs within the shortest format of the sport as he took simply 197 innings to accomplish that.
Following is the record of Indian gamers to take fewest innings to rating 7000 T20 runs:
- KL Rahul – 197 innings
- Virat Kohli – 212 innings
- Shikhar Dhawan – 246 innings
- Suresh Raina – 251 innings
- Rohit Sharma – 258 innnings
In the match, GT received toss and opted to bat. They set a goal of 136 runs for LSG, powered by Hardik Pandya‘s fifty. Coming to chase, KL Rahul scored 68 off 61 balls earlier than getting dismissed by Mohit Sharma. His sensible batting included 8 fours abd he had a strike fee of 111.48. He additionally jumped to the third place within the record of openers to rating most 50-plus runs in IPL historical past.
Most 50-plus scores as an opener within the IPL –Â
- David Warner – 57
- Shikhar Dhawan – 48
- KL Rahul – 35
- Gautam Gambhir – 34
- Chris Gayle – 34
Lucknow Super Giants Playing XI: KL Rahul (c), Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Ayush Badoni, Naveen-ul-Haq, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Ravi Bishnoi
Gujarat Titans Playing XI: Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya (c), Vijay Shankar, Abhinav Manohar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, Mohit Sharma
