The 33-year-old India National Cricket Team star opening batsman KL Rahul has completed 9,000 runs in international cricket, becoming the 16th Indian to achieve the milestone.
KL Rahul reached the landmark during the fourth Test match of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2025 against the England National Cricket Team at Old Trafford in Manchester on Saturday, July 26.
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KL Rahul joins the 9k club in 219 matches
Rahul has been in remarkable form in the ongoing five-match Test series against the England National Cricket Team. He has scored runs for the Indian team from the first game and maintained the consistency.
KL Rahul has already breached the 400-run mark and is having his best-ever Test series as a batsman. Heading into the fourth Test match, he needed 60 runs to complete 9,000 international runs.
In the first innings, Rahul scored 46 runs off 98 balls, with 4 fours, to get closer to the milestone, and in the second innings, he played a cautious knock with India under tremendous pressure to reach the landmark.
He completed 9,000 runs in 219 international matches at an average of 39-plus, including 19 centuries and 58 fifties. In Test matches, Rahul has scored 3716+ runs in 62 games, and in ODIs, he has 3,043 runs under his belt in 85 matches. Also, in T20Is, he has scored 2,265 runs in 72 matches.
Not just the 9,000 international runs mark, Rahul has achieved one more big milestone as he has become the second Indian opener to score 1000 Test runs in England after Sunil Gavaskar.
India Players With 9000-Plus International Runs:
| Rank | Player Name | Matches | Runs | Average | 100s | 50s |
| 1 | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar | 664 | 34357 | 48.52 | 100 | 164 |
| 2 | Virat Kohli | 550 | 27599 | 52.27 | 82 | 143 |
| 3 | Rahul Dravid | 504 | 24064 | 45.57 | 48 | 145 |
| 4 | Rohit Gurunath Sharma | 499 | 19700 | 42.18 | 49 | 108 |
| 5 | Sourav Chandidas Ganguly | 421 | 18433 | 41.42 | 38 | 106 |
| 6 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | 535 | 17092 | 44.74 | 15 | 108 |
| 7 | Virender Sehwag | 363 | 16892 | 40.6 | 38 | 70 |
| 8 | Mohammad Azharuddin | 433 | 15593 | 39.77 | 29 | 79 |
| 9 | Sunil Manohar Gavaskar | 233 | 13214 | 46.2 | 35 | 72 |
| 10 | Yuvraj Singh | 399 | 11686 | 34.98 | 17 | 71 |
| 11 | Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman | 220 | 11119 | 41.64 | 23 | 66 |
| 12 | Shikhar Dhawan | 269 | 10867 | 39.66 | 24 | 55 |
| 13 | Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar | 245 | 10376 | 39.3 | 18 | 58 |
| 14 | Gautam Gambhir | 242 | 10324 | 38.95 | 20 | 63 |
| 15 | Kapil Dev Nikhanj | 356 | 9031 | 27.53 | 9 | 41 |
| 16 | Kannur Lokesh Rahul | 219 | 9023 | 39.92 | 19 | 58 |
I won’t see her for another two months – KL Rahul
Recently, in an interaction on Sony Sports, KL Rahul opened up on missing his daughter Evaarah on the England tour. Rahul said that the arrival of the newborn brought a lot of happiness in his life, and leaving her to join the India Test squad in England for the series was difficult for him.
“Yeah, it’s a great time in my life for my family. I’ve always loved children. I’ve always wanted children for a long time. So, made me and my family really, really happy. We’re in a great place. She’s a beautiful little girl. It’s brought so much happiness into our lives,” Rahul said to Cheteshwar Pujara on Sony Sports.
“I have done a little bit (father duties), but unfortunately, two days after she was born, I had to go play the IPL game. And I tried in whatever breaks we got during the IPL to go back for a couple of days and then finish the IPL. It was really hard to take that decision to come here and play that India A game as well because I had not spent any time with her and I knew when I came here, I won’t see her for another two months,” Rahul said.