KL Rahul of the Delhi Capitals became the fastest player in the Indian Premier League to reach 5000 runs during Tuesday’s match against the Lucknow Super Giants in Lucknow. Rahul reached the milestone in his 130th innings, breaking David Warner’s previous record of 5000 runs in 135 innings.
He is now the seventh batter to achieve the 5000-run mark in the IPL, joining the elite group led by Virat Kohli, who has amassed 8326 runs.
The wicketkeeper-batter had to reach the milestone with 51 runs prior to today. He surpassed Chris Gayle (4965) as the IPL’s all-time leading scorer during his innings.
The top five players in the IPL who have scored 5000 runs are as follows:
| Player | Innings |
| KL Rahul (DC) vs LSG in 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 |
Rahul also became the seventh batsman in IPL history to surpass 5000 runs. The others are Warner, Dhawan, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni, de Villiers, Rohit Sharma, and Kohli.
Rahul has been in excellent form in the 2017 IPL, amassing 323 runs from seven games at an average of 64.60 and a strike-rate of 153.80, including three fifties. Rahul’s fifty off 40 balls helped the Capitals upset the Super Giants by eight wickets after they had chased down a target of 160 with 13 deliveries left.
Prior to the match against LSG, Rahul had previously amassed fifty runs against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Chennai Super Kings. Rahul will want to keep the momentum going when DC plays RCB on April 27 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.
X (Twitter) responded to KL Rahul’s milestone as follows:
KL Rahul – Fastest to 5K IPL runs The Real Goat 🐐 #Klrahul 😎 pic.twitter.com/5ZgNsxvXbo
— Sᴀɪ ᴛᴀʀᴀᴋ (@Saitarakfan9) April 22, 2025
🚨JUST IN@klrahul Conquered the Milestone!
Fastest Player to Reach 5000 Runs in @IPL History. pic.twitter.com/nERpBtPlux— #Cricket24: Patch UPDATES 🏏🎮 (@Cricket23game) April 22, 2025
KL RAHUL – THE FASTEST EVER TO COMPLETE 5000 IPL RUNS.
– What a player! 🫡 pic.twitter.com/RRv088b7Xv
— Tanuj (@ImTanujSingh) April 22, 2025
– HISTORY AT EKANA STADIUM IN FRONT OF LSG OWNER SANJIV GOENKA.
– REACTIONS OF GOENKA AFTER KL RAHUL’S 6.
– Six ❌
– Slap ✓– LOOKS LIKE HE REALISED HIS – MISTAKES .🤣#KLRAHUL#LSGvsDC#TATAIPL2025pic.twitter.com/nXMxNyggs8
— Nitesh Prajapati (@itsmenitesh04) April 22, 2025
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