{"id":8102,"date":"2026-04-24T20:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/sai-sudharsan-scripts-history-vs-rcb-becomes-fastest-batter-in-ipl-to-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:23:35","slug":"sai-sudharsan-scripts-history-vs-rcb-becomes-fastest-batter-in-ipl-to-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/sai-sudharsan-scripts-history-vs-rcb-becomes-fastest-batter-in-ipl-to-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sai Sudharsan scripts history vs RCB, becomes fastest batter in IPL to&#8230; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130497524,imgsize-40340,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/mnb-80.jpg\" alt=\"Sai Sudharsan scripts history vs RCB, becomes fastest batter in IPL to...\" title=\"Sai Sudharsan \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Sai Sudharsan entered the IPL record books on Friday by becoming the fastest batter to complete 2,000 runs in the tournament during Gujarat Titans\u2019 match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The GT opener reached the milestone in just 47 innings, going past <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chris-gayle\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Chris Gayle<\/a>, who had taken 48 innings to get to 2,000 IPL runs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Sudharsan came into the match needing 72 runs to break the record. With this knock, he took his overall tally beyond 2,000 runs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Fewest innings to 2000 IPL runs<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"11\">\n<ul>\n<li>47 &#8211; Sai Sudharsan*<\/li>\n<li>48 &#8211; Chris Gayle<\/li>\n<li>52 &#8211; Shaun Marsh<\/li>\n<li>57 &#8211; Ruturaj Gaikwad<\/li>\n<li>60 &#8211; KL Rahul<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Fewest balls taken for 2000 IPL runs (Indians)<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"15\">\n<ul>\n<li>1193 &#8211; Abhishek Sharma<\/li>\n<li>1211 &#8211; Virender Sehwag<\/li>\n<li>1306 &#8211; Rishabh Pant<\/li>\n<li>1326 &#8211; Yashasvi Jaiswal<\/li>\n<li>1353 &#8211; Yusuf Pathan<\/li>\n<li>1361 &#8211; Sai Sudharsan*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Before this game, he had scored 1,928 runs from 46 matches and 46 innings at an average of 45.90 and a strike rate of 145.83, with two centuries and 13 fifties.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/> Earlier, Royal Challengers Bengaluru skipper Rajat Patidar won the toss and opted to bowl against Gujarat Titans in their IPL clash here on Friday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>English batter Jacob Bethell is set for his first match of the season after being picked in place of an injured Phil Salt in the only change to the lineup for RCB.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Shubman Gil-led GT made a couple of changes, handing a debut to Windies pace bowling allrounder Jason Holder while Manav Suthar also returned to the XI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Teams<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">RCB: <\/span>Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma and Rasikh Salam Dar<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">GT:<\/span> Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Washington Sundar, Shahrukh Khan, Jason Holder, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Kagiso Rabada and Mohammed Siraj<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/sai-sudharsan-scripts-history-vs-rcb-becomes-fastest-batter-in-ipl-to-\/articleshow\/130497180.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Sai Sudharsan entered the IPL record books on Friday by becoming the fastest batter to complete 2,000 runs in the tournament during Gujarat Titans\u2019 match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.The GT opener reached the milestone in just 47 innings, going past Chris Gayle, who had taken 48 innings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}