Team India’s opening batsman KL Rahul has achieved a big achievement during the match against West Indies on Friday. He has become the 28th batsman to complete 2000 thousand runs in the World Test Championship. KL Rahul has become the seventh Indian batsman to score 2000 runs in the second Test Championship being played in Delhi. Before this, players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Rishabh Pant have completed two thousand runs.
Indian team’s wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant is the highest run scoring Indian batsman in the World Test Championship. Pant has scored 2731 runs. The Indian wicketkeeper batsman has scored 6 centuries in the WTC. The record of scoring most runs in the World Test Championship is in the name of England’s star cricketer Joe Root. Root has scored 6080 runs in 69 matches. He has scored 21 centuries during this period.
Former Indian captain Rohit Sharma has scored 2761 runs in 40 matches. Shubman Gill has a chance to leave Pant and Rohit behind. Shubhman Gill has scored 2712 runs in 71 innings. Virat Kohli has scored 2617 runs in 46 tests. Gill has 9 centuries to his name. Kohli has scored 5 centuries in WTC.
Rahul scored 38 runs in the first innings. He had hit spinner Khary Pierre for a six over deep midwicket in the previous over before being stumped off Warrican. He could not guess the length of Warrican’s ball correctly and wicketkeeper Tevin Imlach made no mistake in stumping him. A big innings was expected from Rahul, who was in great form on a pitch that looked favorable for batting.