NEW DELHI: Sai Sudharsan on Friday entered the IPL record books by becoming the fastest batsman to complete 2,000 runs in the tournament during Gujarat Titans’ match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.The GT opener reached the milestone in just 47 innings, surpassing Chris Gayle who took 48 innings to reach 2,000 IPL runs.
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Ravindra Jadeja picks a crucial turning point in Rajasthan Royals’ winSudharsan entered the match needing 72 runs to break the record. With this knock, he took his total of over 2,000 runs.Fewest innings to 2000 IPL runs
- 47 – Sai Sudharsan*
- 48 – Chris Gayle
- 52 – Shaun Marsh
- 57 – Ruturaj Gaikwad
- 60 – KL Rahul
Fewest balls taken in 2000 IPL runs (Indians)
- 1193 – Abhishek Sharma
- 1211 – Virender Sehwag
- 1306 – Rishabh Pant
- 1326 – Yashasvi Jaiswal
- 1353 – Yusuf Pathan
- 1361 – Sai Sudharsan*
Sai Sudharsan was eventually dismissed for 100 off 58 balls by Josh Hazlewood.Prior to this game, he had scored 1,928 runs from 46 matches and 46 innings at an average of 45.90 and a strike rate of 145.83, with two centuries and 13 fifties.Earlier, Royal Challengers Bengaluru captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and opted to bowl against Gujarat Titans in the IPL clash on Friday.England batsman Jacob Bethell is set for his first match of the season after being picked in place of the injured Phil Salt in the only change to the line-up for RCB.Shubman Gil-led GT made a few changes and gave debut to Windies bowling all-rounder, Jason Holder, while Manav Suthar also returned to the XI.TeamsRCB: Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma and Rasikh Salam DarGT: Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Washington Sundar, Shahrukh Khan, Jason Holder, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Kagiso Rabada and Mohammed Siraj.
