India v/s Sri Lanka | 3rd Test, Day 1: Rahul goes past Dravid, joins elite club with 7th consecutive test fifty

Indian opener KL Rahul has equalled the world record of seven successive fifty plus scores. Rahul achieved this milestone on the first day of the third test against Sri Lanka. Rahul was 67 not out as India reached 134 without loss at lunch on the opening day.

He joins the elite club of West Indians Everton Weekes and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, Australian Cris Rogers and Zimbabwean Andy Flower. Rahul has a chance to overtake them in the second innings.

Rahul also overtook India's legendary bastmen Gundappa Viswanath and Rahul Dravid who have scored six consecutive fifties. Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Sanjay Manjrekar and Navjot Sidhu have all scored five straight half-centuries in their respective Test careers.

Rahul who missed the first Test due to a viral fever, had had a successful outing in the home series against Australia where he scored five consecutive half-centuries and has taken it forward from there.

He had scores of 90, 51, 67, 60 and 51* against the Aussies. On Saturday, Rahul was given a reprieve when he was on 28 as Lahiru Kumara could not hold on to a mishit. 

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67*@klrahul11 is on a roll! #SLvIND pic.twitter.com/FpMZrXA6k7

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