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India vs England: Team India’s star opener KL Rahul continued his great form against England and made another achievement. In the second innings of the Manchester Test match, Rahul scored another great score and overtook Virender Sehwag as an opener in a special list. Rahul, who is scoring consecutive runs in this series, played an important innings for Team India in the fourth Test and did this wonders. But during this time, Rahul got out close to his century.
Rahul gets 8 years old pain
On the last day of the Test match at Old Trafford Stadium, Rahul, who came forward to move the second innings of Team India, could not last long. He was dismissed by England captain Ben Stokes on a lower ball. With this, Rahul missed out on completing his third century in this Test series. He was dismissed for 90 runs. In this way, after 8 years, Rahul was out on a score of 90 in Test cricket. This was just a second time in his career, when he could not complete the century by reaching 90. Earlier in 2017, he was also dismissed against Australia at 90.
Rahul overtook Sehwag
Rahul could not complete his century but he overtook Virender Sehwag in terms of most runs as an Indian opener in SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) countries. Rahul’s name has now been 1782 runs in 48 innings, including 6 centuries and 6 half -centuries. Sehwag had 1574 runs. Ahead of Rahul, now only the great batsman Sunil Gavaskar, who scored a total of 2464 runs in 57 innings in these countries during his Test career. In this, Gavaskar scored 8 centuries and 11 half -centuries.
KL Rahul may not be able to score a century in this innings, but he had a great partnership of 188 runs with captain Shubman Gill. During this innings, Rahul also completed the 500 -run figure in the current series. Rahul scored 510 runs in 8 innings. The right -handed experienced Indian batsman has achieved this feat for the first time in his Test career. The special thing is that the great batsman Sachin Tendulkar could not score 500 runs in a Test series even once in his entire career.
