KL Rahul played a match winning innings in the match against Lucknow
Delhi Capitals’ in-form batsman KL Rahul played an unbeaten half-century innings against Lucknow and gave the team an easy win against Lucknow Super Giants. Along with this, he also completed 5000 runs in IPL. KL Rahul’s innings against Rishabh Pant’s team was excellent and he returned to the pavilion unbeaten after giving victory to the team and also became the batsman to complete 5000 runs in the least number of innings in this league.
KL Rahul broke David Warner’s record
KL Rahul played an unbeaten innings of 57 runs in 42 balls in the match against Lucknow and completed 5000 runs in this league. He did this feat in the 130th innings and became the batsman to complete 5000 runs in the least number of innings in IPL history. He broke the record of David Warner who did this in 135 innings. At number three is Virat Kohli who did this feat in 157 innings.
Fastest batsman to score 5000 runs in IPL in terms of innings
130 – KL Rahul
135 – David Warner
157 – Virat Kohli
161 – AB de Villiers
168 – Shikhar Dhawan
173 – Suresh Raina
187 – Rohit Sharma
KL Rahul has scored a total of 5006 runs in 130 innings in IPL so far. During this, he has scored 4 centuries and 40 half-centuries. Rahul has scored all these runs at an average of 46.34 and a strike rate of 135.6. Rahul has played 50 plus innings 44 times in this league so far.
Talking about the match, Delhi won the toss and decided to bowl first in this match. Lucknow scored 169 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs thanks to Aiden Markram’s half-century of 52 runs. In response, Delhi scored 161 runs for 2 wickets in 17.5 overs on the basis of Abhishek Porel’s 51 runs as well as KL Rahul’s unbeaten 57 runs and won the match by 8 wickets. This is Delhi’s sixth win this season and Akshar’s team is in second place in the points table with 12 points.
