KL Rahul added another major milestone in his IPL career during Delhi Capitals’ clash against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Friday.Although Rahul’s innings ended on 23, the Delhi Capitals batsman entered the record books by becoming the first player in IPL history to score more than 1000 runs in three different franchises.
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Hemang Badani admits ‘perform or perish’ as DC faces must-win situationRahul has now aggregated 2548 runs for Punjab Kings, 1410 runs for Lucknow Super Giants and 1002 runs for Delhi Capitals. This achievement underlines his consistency across different teams and batting roles over the years in the tournament.The wicket came in the last ball of the fifth over when Kartik Tyagi fooled Rahul with a slower delivery. Rahul tried to lift the ball inside out over cover but failed to get the pitch and cut it high to mid-off where Cameron Green completed a well-judged catch.Despite his early dismissal, Rahul also became the fastest batsman to reach the 1000-run milestone for Delhi Capitals. He achieved this in just 23 innings, comfortably beating the previous record jointly held by JP Duminy and Rishabh Pant, who both took 35 innings.Earlier in the evening, KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and elected to field first. Kolkata retained the same playing XI while Delhi brought in Mukesh Kumar and Vipraj Nigam in place of T Natarajan and Karun Nair.Teams:Major Cities of Delhi: Axar Patel (c), Pathum Nissanka, KL Rahul (week), Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi and Mukesh Kumar.Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Kartik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakaravarthy.
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