Rajasthan Royals opener Devdutt Padikkal has surpassed the likes Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma and the legendary MS Dhoni to grow to be the third quickest Indian within the historical past of IPL to finish 1,000 runs. Padikkal reached the milestone throughout RR’s match in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders on Monday night time with a 4 off Shivam Mavi.
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Padikkal took 35 innings to enter the 1,000-run membership in IPL which is one lower than Gambhir (36 innings), two lower than Rohit and Dhoni (37 innings every). The report for the quickest to the milestone is held by batting legend Sachin Tendulkar who wanted simply 31 innings to try this.
Tendulkar is adopted by Suresh Raina (34 innings) on the second spot whereas Rishabh Pant and Padikkal are joint-third.
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Padikkal was an top-performer for Royal Challengers Bangalore over the last season when he scored 411 runs together with a century. The top-order batter smashed 101 off 52 deliveries to interrupt the report for the quickest century by an uncapped Indian in IPL.
However, he wasn’t retained by RCB who then misplaced him to RR on the IPL mega auctions with the inaugural IPL champions securing him for a cool Rs 7.75 crore.
Padikkal has had a combined begin to his IPL 2022 having scored 41 in RR’s season opener in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad earlier than being dismissed for 7 in opposition to Mumbai Indians. He then scored 37 and 29 within the subsequent two innings earlier than being dismissed for a duck in opposition to Gujarat Titans.
On Monday, he did begin nicely however was finally dismissed on 24 off 18, an innings that featured three fours and a six.
Meanwhile, Jos Buttler scored his second century of the season – 103 off 61 – to energy RR to a mammoth 217/5 in 20 overs. Buttler thus grew to become simply the sixth batter in IPL historical past to attain greater than as soon as century in a single season after Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Hashim Amla and Shane Watson.
His innings featured 9 fours and 5 sixes and he consolidated his place on the prime of the record of the highest run-getters of IPL 2022.
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