KL Rahul is also at the fore in terms of run average as captain in IPL.
Mumbai: In the 15th season of the Indian Premier League, a match was played between Lucknow Super Giants and Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday. Lucknow won this match by 12 runs. Lucknow captain KL Rahul batted brilliantly and scored a half-century against Hyderabad. This is his 50th fifty of T20. He has reached here in the shortest innings as an Indian batsman.
In the match played against Hyderabad (SRH) on Monday, Rahul scored 68 runs in 50 balls. Including 6 fours and 1 six. He has reached 50 half-centuries in his 162nd innings. Earlier this record was in the name of Virat Kohli. King Kohli did this in 192 innings. Apart from this, Gautam Gambhir did 224, Shikhar Dhawan 232 while Rohit Sharma had done this feat in 245 innings.
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Let us tell you that KL Rahul is also at the forefront in terms of run average as captain in IPL. He has scored runs at an average of 56. No other captain has averaged 50 in the IPL. David Warner is in second place in this matter. He has scored runs at an average of 47. At the same time, Virat Kohli has scored 42, MS Dhoni has 41 and Sachin Tendulkar has scored an average of 40 as captain.
Talking about KL Rahul’s overall T20 career, he has scored more than 50 runs for the 54th time. Before playing against Hyderabad, he scored 5782 runs in 161 innings at an average of 43. In which 4 centuries and 49 half-centuries are there. His strike rate is 138.