New Delhi: Sai Sudharsan entered the IPL record books on Friday 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 GTK opener crossed the milestone in just 47 innings. Chris GayleWho played 48 innings to reach 2000 IPL runs.Sudharsan needed 72 runs to break the match record. With this innings, he crossed his total of 2,000 runs.Fewest innings of 2000 IPL runs
- 47 – Sai Sudharsan*
- 48 – Chris Gayle
- 52 – Shaun Marsh
- 57 – Rituraj Gaekwad
- 60 – KL Rahul
Fewest balls taken for 2000 IPL runs (Indian)
- 1193 – Abhishek Sharma
- 1211 – Virender Sehwag
- 1306 – Rishabh Pant
- 1326 – Yashasvi Jaiswal
- 1353 – Yusuf Pathan
- 1361 – Sai Sudharsan*
Prior to this game, he had scored 1,928 runs in 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 elected to bowl against Gujarat Titans in their IPL clash here on Friday.England batsman Jacob Bethel is set for his first match of the season after replacing the injured Phil Salt in the only change to RCB’s line-up.The Shubman Gill-led GT made a few changes, debuting Windies fast all-rounder Jason Holder while Manav Sothar also returned to the playing XI.TeamsRCB: Virat Kohli, Dev Dutt Padikal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma and Rashikh Salam Dar.GT: Shibman Gul (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Washington Sundar, Shah Rukh Khan, Jason Holder, Rahul Tiotia, Rashid Khan, Manav Sattar, Kagiso Rabada and Mohammad Siraj.
