NEW DELHI: Indian wicketkeeper batter KL Rahul performed a surprising knock, marking the quickest century by an Indian within the World Cup. Rahul achieved the milestone throughout India’s final league match towards Netherlands in Bengaluru on Sunday.
Rahul received to the landmark with two successive sixes of pacer Bas de Leede over the mid-wicket area, and all he took was simply 62 balls, going previous skipper Rohit Sharma‘s file of quickest World Cup hundred for India.
Rahul received to the landmark with two successive sixes of pacer Bas de Leede over the mid-wicket area, and all he took was simply 62 balls, going previous skipper Rohit Sharma‘s file of quickest World Cup hundred for India.
Rohit notched up a 63-ball century towards Afghanistan earlier within the event at Delhi.
Rahul smashed 102 in simply 64 balls, with 11 fours and 4 sixes. He struck runs at a strike charge of over 159.
In 9 World Cup matches up to now, KL has scored 347 runs at a mean of 69.40 and a strike charge of over 93. He has scored one century and a fifty, with the perfect rating of 102.
He’s India’s fourth-highest run-scorer on this World Cup, behind Virat Kohli (594), Rohit (503) and Shreyas Iyer (421 runs).
In 22 ODIs and 20 innings this 12 months, KL has scored 878 runs at a mean of 67.53, with the perfect rating of 111*.
He has scored two centuries and 5 fifties this 12 months. He has emerged as a extremely dependent middle-order batter for India.
