Rajat Patidar and Virat Kohli
The deadline for IPL retention is October 31. Ahead of this deadline, only one question is on everyone’s minds: which players the 10 teams will keep. Meanwhile, the Royal Challengers Bangalore i.e. RCB batsman has created a new record by scoring a century. This player is one of Virat Kohli’s favorites and has done wonders with the bat for RCB last season. In IPL 2024, this batsman was RCB’s third highest run-scorer. By now you should have understood which player we are talking about.
Actually, the name of the player we are talking about is Rajat Patidar. Rajat Patidar has created a ruckus with the bat just 2 days before the IPL retention deadline. While playing for Madhya Pradesh in Indore, Rajat achieved a great record by scoring an explosive century against Haryana in the Ranji Trophy. Rajat achieved the feat by scoring a century in just 68 balls. He thus became the batsman to score the fifth fastest century in the history of the Ranji Trophy. Rajat Patidar played an innings of 159 runs in just 102 balls with the help of 13 fours and 7 sixes.
Fastest century in Ranji Trophy
- 48 balls – Rishabh Pant vs Jharkhand, Thiruvananthapuram, 2016/17
- 56 balls – Rajesh Bora vs Tripura, Guwahati, 1987/88
- 56 balls – Riyan Parag vs Chhattisgarh, Raipur, 2023/24
- 60 balls – Ruben Paul vs Goa, Madras, 1995/96
- 68 balls – Rajat Patidar vs Haryana, Indore, 2023/24
This year, Rajat Patidar did not have a good start to the domestic season and could only score 146 runs in 6 innings of the Duleep Trophy. He couldn’t do anything special even in the first round of the Ranji Trophy, but in the second match against Punjab he created a lot of discussion by scoring 90 runs. Now he did wonders by scoring an explosive century against Haryana.
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