Former India coach Ravi Shastri has put his cash on Gujarat Titans opener Shubman Gill to interrupt Virat Kohli‘s seemingly impregnable file of amassing most runs — 973 — in a single season of Indian Premier League. In the 2016 season of the league, then India and Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Kohli gathered almost 1000 runs at a median of 81.08 and a strike rat of over 152. During the course of the league, Kohli had smashed 4 tons of and 7 fifties.

During a question-and-answer session via #AskStar, Shastri picked Gill because the one with a capability to surpass Kohli, including that opening the batting helps immensely in scoring further runs.

“He (Gill) has to be an opening batsman, because only then will he get many opportunities to score runs. I feel, it is Subhman Gill because he is in good form and also because he plays top of the order. So he will get good number of opportunities to score runs.

“The pitches are good, so if he can rating 80-100 runs consecutively in two or three innings, then at that time of time solely he’ll have already got 300-400 runs.

“According to me, it is very difficult to break the record, because 900 plus runs is huge but one thing is opening batsmen will get two extra matches and two extra innings, so opening batsmen can only break this record if it is possible,” Shastri mentioned.

Jos Buttler and David Warner observe Kohli within the single season top-scorers’ chart with 863 and 848 runs respectively.

On Sunday, Gill accomplished 2,000 runs in IPL.

In 77 matches within the IPL to date, Gill has scored 2,016 runs at a median of 32.52 and a strike fee of 126.24.

Gill’s greatest season got here final 12 months, when he performed a key function in Gujarat Titans triumph of their maiden season, scoring 483 runs in 16 innings.

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