Shubman Gill crosses 400-run mark in Dream11 IPL 2020, only 20 runs behind Virat Kohli

While Nitish Rana won all plaudits for his career-best 87 against Chennai, it was his opening partner Shubman Gill that helped him settle in middle. While Kolkata star took his time to get going, Gill played a wide array of shots to keep run-rate going in powerplay. En route his breezy innings, 21-year-old also breached a personal milestone in Dream11 IPL 2020. 

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Shubman Gill Dream11 IPL stats: Kolkata star 20 runs shy of Virat Kohli in top run-getters list

Shubman Gill entered contest against Chennai with 378 runs to his name in Dream11 IPL 2020 and went past 400-run mark on Thursday. Kolkata star's cameo meant that he ended night with 404 runs this tournament, just shy of Bangalore duo Devdutt Pikkal (417) and Virat Kohli (424) as well as Hyderab skipper David Warner (436). 21-year-old looked poised to overtake aforementioned trio before Karn Sharma's peach meant that Gill lost his leg stump and his stay at crease ended. Kolkata star is currently sixth on highest run-getters list in Dream11 IPL 2020, having surpassed likes of Faf du Plessis, Mayank Agarwal and Shreyas Iyer en route his innings on Thursday. 

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This is incidentally Shubman Gill's best-ever season since Kolkata acquired him in 2018 auction.  21-year-old, who batted lower down order for most of his early career with two-time champions, but found a new lease of life since being promoted to open batting. Gill also breached 900-run mark in his overall Dream11 IPL career and will look to continue his good form as Kolkata make a dash for playoffs. loss against Chennai was detrimental to ir hopes, but Eoin Morgan and co. could still make top four if y win ir final game against Rajasthan and or results sway in ir favour. 

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Kolkata are currently fifth with 12 points in 13 games, and could at max muster 14 points, which could be matched by at least three teams including Punjab, Hyderab and loser of Delhi vs Bangalore match. two-time champions have worst net run-rate among ir competitors and will hope for a massive change in ir fortunes. Kolkata will have to win ir game against Rajasthan on Sunday and hope that Punjab and Hyderab lose ir remaining fixtures. 

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(Im Courtesy: Kolkata Twitter)