RCB skipper Faf du Plessis completes 4000 IPL runs

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Faf du Plessis completed 4000 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) history on Sunday. In the match against Rajasthan Royals (RR), DuPlessis accomplished this milestone at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. DuPlessis scored 55 runs off 41 balls in the match to achieve this record, he played 128 matches where he scored 40344 runs with an average of 36.67 and a strike rate of 133.80. He has bagged 32 fifties in his IPL career. He has clinched another milestone of becoming the only batter to cross 600 runs in the IPL 2023. In the season so far, he has 631 runs with an impressive average of 57.36 and a strike rate of 154.28. He has smashed seven half-centuries in the season. The South African batter played his debut match with Chennai Super Kings in 2012. For, CSK, he scored 2721 runs in 92 games at an average of 35.34. He scored 20 half-centuries for the Yellow Army. DuPlessis was also part of the now-defunct Rising Pune Supergiant, playing eight matches and scoring 214 runs at an average of over 30 with two fifties.