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NEW DELHI: Sai Sudharsan entered the IPL grounds books connected Friday by becoming the fastest batter to implicit 2,000 runs successful the tourney during Gujarat Titans’ lucifer against Royal Challengers Bengaluru astatine the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.The GT opener reached the milestone successful conscionable 47 innings, going past Chris Gayle, who had taken 48 innings to get to 2,000 IPL runs.Sudharsan came into the lucifer needing 72 runs to interruption the record. With this knock, helium took his wide tally beyond 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 for 2000 IPL runs (Indians)
- 1193 - Abhishek Sharma
- 1211 - Virender Sehwag
- 1306 - Rishabh Pant
- 1326 - Yashasvi Jaiswal
- 1353 - Yusuf Pathan
- 1361 - Sai Sudharsan*
Before this game, helium had scored 1,928 runs from 46 matches and 46 innings astatine an mean of 45.90 and a onslaught complaint of 145.83, with 2 centuries and 13 fifties. Earlier, Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar won the flip and opted to vessel against Gujarat Titans successful their IPL clash present connected Friday.English batter Jacob Bethell is acceptable for his archetypal lucifer of the play aft being picked successful spot of an injured Phil Salt successful the lone alteration to the lineup for RCB.Shubman Gil-led GT made a mates of changes, handing a debut to Windies gait bowling allrounder Jason Holder portion Manav Suthar besides 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
