Virat Kohli now holds the world file for many runs at one venue in T20s.
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Virat Kohli scored 83 runs from 59 balls for RCB towards KKR on Friday (March 29).
- He hammered 4 fours and as many sixes throughout his keep on the crease.
- Kohli now holds the file for scoring most T20 runs at a single venue.
Batting celebrity Virat Kohli was on fireplace for Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Friday (March 29). In the course of the IPL 2024 match performed towards the Kolkata Knight Riders at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, he scored 83 runs from 59 balls. The previous RCB skipper hammered 4 fours and as many sixes throughout his keep on the crease. However his second half-century of the IPL 2024 couldn’t assist his facet safe a win over KKR.
The Shreyas Iyer-led facet chased down the goal of 183 runs in 16.5 overs for the lack of three wickets to take care of a 100% win file in IPL 2024 and take No. 2 place within the factors desk.
In the course of the match towards KKR, Kohli, nonetheless, achieved a large milestone. The 35-year-old right-handed batter now holds the world file for scoring most runs in T20s at a single venue. He broke former Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim’s file of scoring 3239 runs in Mirpur.
Kohli, who’s the main run scorer in IPL historical past and has solely performed for RCB within the cash-rich league, has scored 3276 runs in T20 matches performed at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Amongst different gamers who’ve managed to attain greater than 3000 T20 runs at a single venue are England batter Alex Hales, who has 3036 runs in T20s performed at Trent Bridge, and former Bangladesh ODI captain Tamim Iqbal (3020 runs in Mirpur).
Kohli wanted 47 runs to interrupt Rahim’s file of scoring most T20 runs at a single venue throughout RCB’s conflict towards KKR. In Match No. 10 of the IPL 2024, he additionally broke Chris Gayle’s long-standing file of hitting 239 sixes for RCB within the IPL. With 241 maximums to his title in 240 IPL matches for RCB, Kohli now holds the file for hitting most sixes for one crew on this planet’s richest franchise cricket league.
The precise-handed batter is adopted by Gayle (239), Ab de Villiers (238 sixes for RCB), Kieron Pollard (221 sixes for MI), and Rohit Sharma (210 sixes for the Mumbai Indians).
The 83-run knock on Friday additionally helped him leapfrog Shikhar Dhawan and change into the third-leading run scorer within the IPL towards the Kolkata Knight Riders. In 33 IPL matches towards the Shah Rukh Khan-owned franchise, Kohli has 944 runs to his title, which is 37 greater than the 907-run whole by Dhawan.
Solely David Warner (1075) and Rohit Sharma (1040) have managed to attain extra runs towards KKR than Kohli now.
