“KL Rahul is making the match boring”- Twitter erupts as KL Rahul breaks Virat Kohli’s record despite his current form
Rahul has become the fastest Indian to reach 7000 runs in T20 cricket. It took him 197 innings to reach the mark.
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Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) captain KL Rahul has become a target of jokes owing to his current poor form. But this batter did not use to struggle much during his starting days. He used to amaze the watchers of the game with his blitzkriegs every now and then.
But these days, a better innings from Rahul is seen only once in a blue moon. However, owing to his brilliant knocks in earlier matches, he scripted a special record when his team locked horns with Gujarat Titans on Saturday (April 22) at the Ekana Sports City in Lucknow.
Rahul has become the fastest Indian to reach 7000 runs in T20 cricket. It took him 197 innings to reach the mark, which is way ahead of the second batter on the list, Virat Kohli, who took 212 innings to reach the milestone. Apart from Rahul and Kohli, the other names on the list include Shikhar Dhawan (251 innings), Suresh Raina (251 innings), and Rohit Sharma (258 innings).
Overall, Rahul is the third fastest to reach the landmark. Babar Azam stands atop by completing the runs in 187 matches, followed by Chris Gayle in 192 matches.
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Check Twitter’s reactions to KL Rahul’s reaching 7000 T20 runs
Meanwhile, about the ongoing match between LSG and GT, the former are slowly driving toward the target of 136. Rahul has smashed his half-century and is at 57* runs from 44 balls. He has also smashed eight sixes at the time of writing this article.
Apart from Rahul, Kyle Mayers scored 24 runs from 19 balls and headed back to the dugout off Rashid Khan’s delivery. Krunal Pandya also played a slow knock of 23 runs from the same number of balls.
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