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Rinku Singh broke Andre Russell’s record
Can go ahead with 3 giants in the next match
New Delhi. The 61st match of IPL 2023 was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings. In this match, KKR registered an excellent win by six wickets. With this win, KKR prevented Chennai Super Kings from qualifying for the playoffs. Once again a great innings was seen from young batter Rinku Singh. With this wonderful inning, he has broken Andre Russell’s record.
In fact, Rinku Singh has come fourth in terms of scoring the most runs while batting at number five or below in the IPL. Rinku Singh has scored 407 runs in only 13 matches. In the year 2019, Andre Russell scored 406 runs in 11 matches while batting in the fifth or lower order. He has now left behind Rinku Singh.
However, both these players have made it to the top 5. If we talk about the top three players, then they include players like Dinesh Karthik, David Miller and Kieron Pollard. Dinesh Karthik scored 472 runs in 15 innings in the year 2018 IPL while batting at 5th or lower order.
Apart from Karthik, deadly batsman David Miller is at number 2. He scored 437 runs in 14 matches in the year 2022 IPL. At the same time, Kieron Pollard scored 419 runs in 17 matches in the 2013 IPL. He is in third place in this matter. If Rinku Singh scores 66 more runs in the next match, then he will reach the first place in this list.
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Tags: Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik, IPL
FIRST PUBLISHED : May 15, 2023, 13:33 IST