Gayle's IPL record under threat: Sai Sudharsan could become fastest player to...

Gujarat Titans’ opener Sai Sudharsan has a accidental to scope a large IPL milestone and spell past Chris Gayle successful the grounds books successful the IPL 2026 lucifer against Royal Challengers Bengaluru connected Friday.If Sudharsan scores 72 runs against RCB astatine the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium connected Friday, helium volition go the fastest batter to implicit 2,000 runs successful IPL history. He presently has 1,928 runs from 46 matches and 46 innings astatine an mean of 45.90 and a onslaught complaint of 145.83, with 2 centuries and 13 fifties.Reaching the people successful this crippled would mean helium gets determination successful 47 innings. Gayle had reached 2,000 IPL runs successful his 48th innings.Sudharsan, however, has not had his champion play truthful far. In six innings this year, helium has scored 135 runs astatine an mean of 22.50 and a onslaught complaint of implicit 145.

He has 1 fifty, including a 73-run sound against Rajasthan Royals. In the different 5 innings, helium has crossed the 20-run people lone once.His deficiency of runs has affected Gujarat’s batting. The mediate bid of Shahrukh Khan, Glenn Phillips and Rahul Tewatia has besides struggled for consistency. Better signifier from them would trim the unit connected Sudharsan, skipper Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler astatine the top.On the different side, Virat Kohli is besides adjacent to a milestone. The highest run-scorer successful IPL past with 8,908 runs, Kohli needs 92 much to go the archetypal subordinate to scope 9,000 IPL runs.He has played 273 matches truthful far, with 8 centuries and 65 fifties. Kohli has been with RCB since the archetypal IPL play successful 2008 and has ne'er gone into the auction. He besides holds the grounds for the astir hundreds successful the league with eight.