KL Rahul added another important 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 for three different franchises.
Rahul has now scored 2548 runs for Punjab Kings, 1410 runs for Lucknow Supergiants and 1002 runs for Delhi Capitals. This success illustrates his consistency across different teams and batting roles in the tournament.The wicket came on the last ball of the fifth over when Karthik Tyagi fooled Rahul with a silver delivery. Trying to drive the ball outside cover, Rahul failed to reach the pitch and cut it high towards mid-on, where Cameron Green completed a well-judged catch.Despite being dismissed early, Rahul also became the fastest batsman to reach the 1000-run milestone for Delhi Capitals. He achieved this feat in just 23 innings, comfortably eclipsing the previous record held jointly by JP Duminy and Rishabh Pant, who both played 35 innings.Earlier KKR captain in Syria Ajinkya Rahane Won the toss and decided to bowl first. Kolkata retained the same playing XI, while Delhi replaced T Natarajan and Karuna Nair with Mukesh Kumar and Vipraj Nigam.Teams:Delhi Capitals: Akshar Patel (c), Patham Nissanka, KL Rahul (wk), 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 Greene, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil NarayanAnukul Roy, Karthik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakraborty.
