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IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Rajat Patidar on Friday scored 23 runs in 18 balls against Punjab Kings with the help of 1 six and 1 fours. He has left behind the great Sachin Tendulkar in a record list by completing his 1000 runs in the IPL. However, his team lost this match by 5 wickets.
Batting first, RCB’s batting flop was flopped. From Virat Kohli to Liam Livingstone, top batsmen were dismissed cheaply. Tim David played an innings of 50 runs and took RCB to a respectable score (95). Earlier, Rajat Patidar completed 1000 runs of his IPL career by scoring 23 runs. Let us tell you that this match affected by rain started late, the match was for 14-14 overs.
Rajat Patidar left Sachin Tendulkar behind
RCB captain Rajat Patidar has become the second batsman to score 1000 runs in the lowest innings in the IPL, overtaking Sachin Tendulkar and Rituraj Gaikwad. Tendulkar and Gaikwad scored 1000 runs in the 31st innings in the IPL while Rajat was playing the 30th innings of their IPL on Friday. He has come second in the list, Sai Sudarshan has a record of scoring 1000 runs in the lowest innings. He touched this figure in 25 innings.
Talking about Rajat Patidar’s IPL career, he has scored 1008 runs in 30 innings played in 34 matches. His highest score in the tournament is 112 runs. This is his only century in IPL. Apart from this, he has played 9 half -century innings. He has hit 69 fours and 64 sixes in the tournament.
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– Indianpremierleague (@IPL) April 18, 2025
He has occupied number three in the list of batsmen who scored 1000 runs in the lowest balls in the IPL. He touched this figure in 626 balls, while Virender Sehwag (604) at number one and Yusuf Pathan (617) at number two.
Fastest to Reach 1000 IPL Runs
(Indians)25 Inngs – Sai Sudharsan
30 Inngs – Rajat Patidar*
31 Inngs – Sachin Tendulkar
31 Inngs – Ruturaj Gaikwad
33 Inngs – Tilak Varma #RCBVSPBKS– Broken Cricket (@BrokenCrick) April 18, 2025
Punjab Kings won the match by 5 wickets
Defending 96 runs, RCB bowlers performed brilliantly but in the final over, Nehal Vadhera (33) innings took away the match from him. Punjab achieved the target with 11 balls and won by 5 wickets.