David Warner became the quickest to 6000 IPL runs

David Warner is now the first overseas player in the history of the IPL to score 6000 runs. Yesterday, against Rajasthan Royals the Australian opener achieved the feat. He is now the quickest to 6000 IPL runs as he broke Virat Kohli's record last night. The Delhi Capitals' captain took just 165 innings to achieve this feat while Kohli took 188 innings.

Along with Virat Kohli and David Warner, Shikhar Dhawan is another player who has scored 6000 IPL runs in his career. Interstingly, all of the three batters to surpass the 6k mark are top-order batters and mostly openers. Warner has been successful with Sunrisers Hyderabad and scored a hefty amount of runs at the top of the order for them. In fact, he was able to give them the only trophy SRH won till now.

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Meanwhile, Kohli is the only player to score that many runs for a single franchise. Recently, Kohli has been batting as an opener for RCB but in the past, he was batted at 3 and 4 for them as well. Virat was the first player to score 6000 IPL runs and also was the fastest till David Warner broke his record.

Quickest to 6000 IPL runs

Name	Innings
David Warner	165
Virat Kohli	188
Shikhar Dhawan	199