KL Rahul is expected to open alongside Yashasvi Jaiswal in the Test series against Sri Lanka. Rahul has been one of the mainstays of India’s batting line-up across formats, especially Tests and ODIs, and he enters this series eyeing a couple of significant personal landmarks.
Rahul enters the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka with 4153 runs in the format and needs 347 runs to complete 4,500, which would make him one of the slowest Indian batters by innings in the longest format of the game at the international level. He could join VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly, Ajinkya Rahane, and MS Dhoni to take more than 100 innings to achieve this feat.
Moreover, the Test vice-captain needs 170 runs to become the fourth fastest Indian male batter to complete 10,000 runs by innings in international cricket. Currently, KL Rahul has aggregated 9830 runs in 277 innings.