{"id":22242,"date":"2025-04-22T22:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=590390"},"modified":"2025-04-22T22:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:25:49","slug":"lsg-vs-dc-kl-rahul-breaks-record-for-fastest-5000-ipl-runs-eclipses-warner-and-kohli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/lsg-vs-dc-kl-rahul-breaks-record-for-fastest-5000-ipl-runs-eclipses-warner-and-kohli\/","title":{"rendered":"LSG vs DC: KL Rahul breaks record for fastest 5,000 IPL runs, eclipses Warner and Kohli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"173\" data-end=\"430\">Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul etched his name into the history books during the match against Delhi Capitals on April 22, 2025, as he became the <strong data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"379\">fastest player to reach 5,000 runs in IPL history<\/strong> \u2014 achieving the milestone in just <strong data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"429\">130 innings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"432\" data-end=\"759\">Rahul brought up the milestone in style with a composed knock of 51*(41), which also marked a <strong data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"556\">well-deserved half-century<\/strong> against his former franchise. The landmark moment came in the 18th over of the chase when <strong data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"737\">Prince Yadav bowled a length delivery and Rahul nudged it down to long-on for a single<\/strong> \u2014 his 5000th IPL run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"761\" data-end=\"939\">Earlier in the over, Rahul had completed his fifty with another single, a flick towards the leg side, and raised his bat to acknowledge the applause from the crowd and teammates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"1233\">With this achievement, KL Rahul becomes the <strong data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1019\">ninth overall and sixth Indian<\/strong> to breach the 5,000-run mark in IPL. He overtakes the previous record held by David Warner (135 innings) and Virat Kohli (157 innings), making it a truly remarkable milestone in his already illustrious IPL career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1398\">As for the match, Rahul\u2019s innings helped stabilize the chase and put Delhi Capitals on the back foot, underlining his reliability and class in pressure situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul etched his name into the history books during the match against Delhi Capitals on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[608],"class_list":["post-22242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-kl-rahul"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}