KL Rahul scored his second Indian Premier League (IPL) century on Thursday, reaching the landmark off 62 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Dubai. He completed unbeaten on 132 off simply 69 balls with 14 fours and seven sixes. That is the best rating by an Indian in IPL historical past and the best rating by an IPL captain. Rahul, the Kings XI Punjab captain, opened the innings for his workforce and performed the anchor, including 57 runs for the primary wicket with Mayank Agarwal and 57 extra with Nicholas Pooran for the second wicket.
Nonetheless, the 28-year-old batsman was fortunate as his India teammate and reverse quantity Virat Kohli gave Rahul two lifelines. He dropped Rahul twice within the deep, as soon as off Steyn after which once more off Navdeep Saini.
KXIP had slowed down after the wickets of Pooran (17) and Glenn Maxwell (5) however Rahul confirmed aggression in the direction of the demise hitting each shot and full deliveries kind Steyn deep into the stands on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium.
Such was Rahul’s prowess that KXIP collected 74 runs off the final 4 overs.
Rahul went beserk in the direction of the demise, smashing Steyn for 3 sixes and two fours within the 19th over after which hitting Shivam Dube for 2 sixes and a 4 within the closing over of the innings.
Steyn was taken for 26 runs off the 19th over and Dube went for 23 within the 20th over.
Promoted
Rahul completed with a strike charge of 191.38 as Kings XI Punjab posted 206/three in Match 6 of IPL 2020.
Rahul now has 2130 runs from 69 IPL matches at 44.37 and a strike charge of 140.22 with two centuries and 16 half-centuries.
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