Lokesh Rahul’s 7th consecutive Fifty,equals world record In test match
On the first day of the third Test against Sri Lanka, Team India’s opener Lokesh Rahul is playing with 50 runs. Rahul’s consistent seventh consecutive half-century. Despite the injury, there has been no effect on Rahul’s form over the past. Rahul’s continuous half-century inning started with this year’s Bangalore Test against Australia this year. Meanwhile, Rahul did not play due to injury in some matches.
However, he had marked an impressive return back to the game in the Colombo Test when he notched up 57 runs thus becoming the first Indian opener to register six consecutive fifty-plus scores. However, as an Indian batsman, his name stood alongside Rahul Dravid and Gundappa Vishwanath. Vishwanath had achieved his feat back in 1978 and Rahul Dravid in 1998.
World record of making the most half-century in consecutive innings of Test cricket
If he did record the record of making the most fifty in consecutive innings of Test cricket, then Rahul made the world record of Everton Weeks (West Indies), Andy Flower (Zimbabwe), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) and Chris Rogers (Australia). Has equalized The name of all of this is the joint record of the highest number of 7 half centuries in the consecutive innings. When KL Rahul scored 199 runs in the Chennai Test against England in 2016, he had 4 centuries and a fifty in his account, now he has 4 centuries and 9 half-centuries.
7 consecutive innings of KL Rahul
90 runs, against Australia, Bangalore, March 2017
51 runs, against Australia, Bangalore, March 2017
67 runs, against Australia, Ranchi, March 2017
60 runs, against Australia, Dharamsala, March 2017
51 * Runs against Australia, Dharamsala, March 2017
57 runs, against Sri Lanka, colombo, August, 2017
50 * run, against Sri Lanka, Pallekele, August, 2017
Record of half centuries for India
7 Lokesh Rahul, 2017
6 Gundappa Vishwanath, 1977-1978
6 Rahul Dravid, 1997-1998