Royal Challengers Bangalore’s star batsman Virat Kohli broke many records while celebrating his eighth century in the IPL tournament.
In this match held in Jaipur, Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 113 runs off 72 balls with the help of 12 fours and four sixes. On the strength of Kohli’s century, the RCB team had set a target of 184 runs for victory against the Rajasthan team. With this innings, Kohli made many records to his name.
7500 runs completed
Virat Kohli has become the highest run-scorer in the history of IPL and he has gone far ahead of other batsmen in this regard. Other batsmen could not even score 7000 runs in this tournament. Whereas, Virat Kohli has completed 7500 runs. He is the only batsman in the world to do such a feat. Kohli became the first player to complete 7500 runs in IPL when he scored 34 against Rajasthan. Kohli has scored 7579 runs in 242 matches in IPL. He has scored 8 centuries and 52 fifties during this period.
Eight thousand runs completed
Along with this, Kohli has also completed the milestone of eight thousand runs in his T20 career. Kohli has so far scored 7579 runs in 242 matches for RCB, while he has played 15 Champions League matches for the franchise. Before the match against Rajasthan, Kohli needed 110 runs to reach 8000 runs. But he reached this milestone by playing an unbeaten innings of 113 runs.
Most runs against Rajasthan
Kohli has become the highest run-scorer against Rajasthan. He has surpassed Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan. Dhawan has scored 679 runs against this team. Kohli was the fifth-highest run-scorer against Rajasthan before this match, but he left everyone behind with his century. Kohli has so far scored 731 runs in 30 matches against Rajasthan.
