Indian Test opener KL Rahul played a great century against the West Indies. However, he also suffered some trouble during this period. On the basis of this century in Test cricket in India after 9 years, Rahul broke this record of Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir besides Vilat Kohli.
In the first innings against the Indies, Rahul scored 100 runs off 197 balls with the help of 12 fours and as an opener he scored a 10th century for India. Along with this, he reached the fourth in the list of Indian batsmen who scored the most centuries as an opener in the Test. He overtook Rohit and Gambhir. Who scored 9-9 centuries.
Kohli’s KL Rahul overtook
This was KL Rahul’s sixth century in the World Test Championship and he overtook Virat Kohli who scored a total of 5 centuries in WTC. Rahul also equaled Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant who have scored 6-6 centuries. In this list, Rohit and Shubman Gill ranks first with 9-9 centuries.
KL Rahul played 50 plus innings for India for the 26th time in Test cricket and India came at number 5 in the list of batsmen who played the highest 50 plus innings in the Test. The first place in this list is Sunil Gavaskar who did this 75 times.