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Suresh raina shorts 15 runs to complete his 5000 runs in Indian Premier League

Suresh raina shorts 15 runs to complete his 5000 runs in Indian Premier League

Indian batsman Suresh Raina failed to complete his 5000 runs in IPL and missed the chance to became the first batsman ever in IPL history to achieve this feat. Raina scored 32 runs in the 2018 IPL Finale and got caught behind by Goswami. Before this game, he was just 47 runs behind to complete this target. However, Chennai Super Kings won the tournament by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets and seized their third IPL Title. Chennai Super Kings who was playing after two years of the ban dominated single handly the Opposites and clinched the title. Batsman Shane Watson smashed his 4th T20 Century in IPL history and it was third against Sunrisers Hyderabad.

The top scoring batsman of IPL 2018 was Kane Williamson and Rishabh Pant, who have scored 735 and 684 runs respectively. Behind Suresh Raina, the Indian Skipper Virat Kohli was predicted as the batsman to score the first Individual 5000 runs in IPL. Indian batsman Rohit Sharma, Gautam Gambhir, and Robin Uthappa are also the 4000+ runs scorer in Indian Premier League.

Top 15 Run Scorer in Indian Premier League

POS PLAYER Mat Inns NO Runs HS Avg BF SR 100 50 4s 6s
1
Suresh Raina
176 172 27 4985 100* 34.37 3,600 138.47 1 35 448 185
2
Virat Kohli
163 155 26 4948 113 38.35 3,784 130.76 4 34 434 178
3
Rohit Sharma
173 168 27 4493 109* 31.86 3,429 131.02 1 34 379 184
4
Gautam Gambhir
154 152 17 4217 93 31.23 3,404 123.88 0 36 491 59
5
Robin Uthappa
165 158 15 4086 87 28.57 3,099 131.84 0 23 401 145
6
Shikhar Dhawan
143 142 20 4058 95* 33.26 3,285 123.53 0 32 460 85
7
MS Dhoni
175 158 58 4016 79* 40.16 2,906 138.19 0 20 275 186
8
David Warner
114 114 15 4014 126 40.54 2,824 142.13 3 36 401 160
9
Chris Gayle
112 111 14 3994 175* 41.17 2,650 150.71 6 24 324 292
10
AB de Villiers
141 129 29 3953 133* 39.53 2,619 150.93 3 28 326 186
11
Ajinkya Rahane
126 119 15 3427 103* 32.95 2,848 120.33 1 26 359 65
12
Dinesh Karthik
168 150 23 3401 86 26.77 2,642 128.72 0 16 335 87
13
Shane Watson
117 113 15 3177 117* 32.41 2,250 141.20 4 16 301 157
14
Yusuf Pathan
164 146 39 3164 100 29.57 2,196 144.08 1 13 261 157
15

Ambati Rayudu

130 123 20 3019 100* 29.31 2,317 130.29 1 17 258 113

Top-15 Bowlers in Indian Premier League

However, Amit Mishra shorts 8 wickets to break the Lasith Malinga’s record of taking most wickets in Indian Premier League. Mishra needed 8 more wickets to leveled the Lasith Malinga’s record. And he is following by rapidly Off-spinner Piyush Chawla, who has taken 140 wickets.

POS PLAYER Mat Inns Ov Runs Wkts BBI Avg Econ SR 4w 5w
1
LasithMalinga
110 110 426.2 2,928 154 0 19.01 6.86 16.61 4 1
2

Amit Mishra

136 136 476.5 3,525 146 0 24.14 7.39 19.59 3 1
3

Piyush Chawla

144 143 476.1 3,673 140 0 26.23 7.71 20.40 2 0
4

Dwayne Bravo

122 118 386.5 3,251 136 0 23.90 8.40 17.06 2 0
5

Harbhajan Singh

149 145 516.2 3,641 134 0 27.17 7.05 23.11 1 1
6

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

102 102 376.2 2,693 120 0 22.44 7.15 18.81 2 1
7

Sunil Narine

98 97 382 2,498 112 0 22.30 6.53 20.46 6 1
8

Umesh Yadav

108 107 375.3 3,125 111 0 28.15 8.32 20.29 2 0
9
 Ravichandran Ashwin
125 122 432.2 2,910 110 0 26.45 6.73 23.58 1 0
10

Ashish Nehra

88 87 314 2,460 105 0 23.42 7.83 17.94 1 0
11

Vinay Kumar

105 104 353.3 2,966 105 0 28.24 8.39 20.20 1 0
12

Zaheer Khan

100 99 366.4 2,782 102 0 27.27 7.58 21.56 1 0
13
Ravindra Jadeja
154 126 361.5 2,809 93 0 30.20 7.76 23.34 3 1
14
Dale Steyn
90 90 343 2,306 92 0 25.06 6.72 22.36 0 0
15
Shane Watson
117 105 338.1 2,682 92 0 29.15 7.93 22.05 1 0

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Abhishek Lohia

Abhishek Lohia was a Sports and Political Writer working for Newsfolo and is no longer associated with the organization.

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