In the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), Lucknow Super Giants achieved their fourth win this season by defeating Chennai Super Kings by 8 wickets at their home ground. In this match for Lucknow, their captain KL Rahul played an important role in winning the match by scoring a half-century with the bat. On the basis of his innings, Rahul achieved a special record of wicketkeepers in IPL history, leaving behind MS Dhoni and achieved the first position in the list. Rahul has now also become the batsman who has played most fifty plus innings as a wicketkeeper in IPL.
Rahul played 25th fifty plus innings as wicketkeeper
In the history of IPL, the record of playing most fifty plus innings as a wicketkeeper before the match between Lucknow and Chennai was in the name of former Chennai Super Kings team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who had achieved this feat 24 times. At the same time, Rahul has achieved the first position by leaving Dhoni behind in this record by playing an innings of 82 runs in the match against CSK. Rahul has had a great performance with the bat so far in this IPL season, in which he has scored 286 runs so far at an average of 40.86.
Players who played most fifty plus innings as wicketkeeper in IPL
- KL Rahul – 25
- MS Dhoni – 24
- Quinton de Kock – 23
- Dinesh Karthik – 21
- Robin Uthappa – 18
Rahul won Man of the Match award for the 9th time as captain in IPL.
KL Rahul was also given the Man of the Match award for his match-winning innings of 82 runs in the match against Chennai Super Kings. This was Rahul’s 9th Man of the Match award as captain in IPL history. MS Dhoni is at the first position in this list, who has won this award as captain 16 times, whereas Rahul has now reached 5th position in this list.
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