KL Rahul breaks Gayle-Warner's record: batsman who scored 600 plus runs in IPL 4 times, Gayle-Warner could do this only 3 times

Posted on 26th May 2022 by rohit kumar

Lucknow Super Giants, who landed in the 15th season of IPL, could not travel till the final, but captain KL Rahul has definitely managed to register a record in his name. Rahul has become the batsman to score 600 plus runs in four seasons.

 

Lucknow suffered a 14-run defeat at the hands of Bengaluru in the Eliminator match played on Wednesday. With this, Lucknow's dream of capturing the title in the first season itself ended. At the same time, in this match, captain Rahul played an innings of 79 runs in 58 balls and became the batsman to score more than 600 runs in this season. He scored 616 runs in 15 matches with 2 centuries. His average was 51.33, while the strike rate is 135.38.

 

Earlier, he had scored 626 runs in 2021 at an average of 62.60. It included 6 half-centuries. At the same time, the strike rate was 138.80. In 2020 too, he had scored more than 600 runs. He scored 670 runs in 14 matches of this season at an average of 55.83, which is also the most runs in a season in his IPL career. His strike rate was 129.34. A century was also included in this season. In 2018 he scored 659 runs in 14 matches at an average of 54.91. His strike rate was 158.41 runs. Couldn't complete 600 runs from 7 runs in 2019. He scored 593 runs in 14 matches this season at an average of 53.90. If this is added, then he is also the first batsman to score more than 590 runs in IPL for 5 consecutive years.

 

Chris Gayle and Warner have scored more than 600 runs in three seasons

 

After Rahul, West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and Australian opener David Warner have scored more than 600 runs in the 3-3 season of IPL. Gayle has scored more than 600 runs in three consecutive seasons in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2013, Gayle scored 708 runs in 16 matches at an average of 59, including a century and 4 half-centuries. His strike rate was 156.29. In 2012, he scored 733 runs in 15 matches at an average of 61. This is also the most runs in a season of his IPL career. He also scored a century and 7 half-centuries in his innings this season. His strike rate was 160.74. In 2011, he scored 608 runs in 12 matches at an average of 67.55. In which 2 centuries and 3 half-centuries are also included. His strike rate was 183.13.

 

Warner scored more than 600 consecutive runs from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, he scored 692 runs in 12 matches at an average of 69.20. He also scored 1 century and 8 half-centuries in his innings. His strike rate was 143.86. In 2017, he scored 641 runs in 14 matches at an average of 58.27. In which 1 century and 4 half-centuries were included. His strike rate was 141.81. In 2016 he scored 848 runs in 17 matches at an average of 60.57. In which 9 half-centuries were also scored. This is also the most runs in a season of his IPL career. He scored runs at a strike rate of 151.42.

 

KL Rahul scored more than 500 runs for 5 consecutive times

 

KL Rahul is scoring more than 590 runs in every season for five consecutive years. But failed to take his team to the finals. Prior to being the captain of Lucknow, he was the captain of Punjab Kings. He played for Punjab from 2018 to 2021. Scored more than 590 runs every year, but Punjab Kings could not reach the final even once.