KL Rahul becomes the fastest for 5000 IPL runs from the innings

During Tuesday's game against Lucknow Super Veterans in Lucknow, KL Rahul The Indian Premier League became the fastest player in the Indian Premier League to reach 5000 runs out of Delhi capitals. In his 130th innings, Rahul achieved milestones, crossing the previous record of 5000 runs in 135 innings organized by David Warner.

He now joined the elite group headed by Virat Kohli, who has scored 8326 runs, as the seventh batsman to reach a 5000 -run milestone in the IPL.

Before today, wicketkeeper-better needed to get milestones with 51 runs. In his innings, he beat Chris Gayle (4965) as an IPL all-time top scorer.

Here are the top five players who have reached the 5000 -run milestone in the IPL:

Player	Turn
KL Rahul (DC) vs Lsg 2025	130
David Warner (SRH) vs Kkr in 2020	135
Virat Kohli (RCB) vs MI in 2019	157
AB de Villiers (RCB) vs DC in 2021	161
Shikhar Dhawan (DC) vs PBKS in 2020	168

In addition, Rahul became the eighth batsman to reach 5000 runs in IPL history. Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Warner, Dhawan, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni, and de Villiers are others.

An average of 64.60 and 153.80 strike -re, Rahul, has been dues in the current IPL with three fifties for his credit and 323 out of seven matches. After chasing a 160 goal with 13 delivery, the capitals defeated the super veterans by eight wickets for fifty to fifty off 40 balls from Rahul.

Rahul had already scored fifty runs against Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore before the match against LSG. When DC plays RCB at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on 27 April, Rahul will try to maintain pace.

Here is told how X (Twitter) reacted to KL Rahul's milestone:

– History at Ekana Stadium in front of LSG owner Sanjeev Goenka. – KL Rahul becomes the fastest to complete 5000 runs in IPL history. 🤯 – What is a great achievement for KL Rahul #Klrahul #LSGVSDC #TataAPL2025