Kohli made the world record in Virat T20 cricket, became the first cricketer in the world to do so
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star batsman Virat Kohli created history by scoring a brilliant half -century in the IPL 2025 match against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday (May 27). Kohli scored 54 runs in 30 balls at a strong rate of 180 for RCB to chase the target in the last league stage match, hitting 10 fours.
The world’s first cricketer to do so
During this half-century innings, Kohli completed 9000 T20s for RCB. He has become the first cricketer in the world to score 9000 or more runs for only one team in T20 cricket. In this list, he is followed by Rohit Sharma, who has scored 6060 T20 runs for Mumbai Indians so far.
The highest half -century in IPL
Kohli has become the highest half -century batsman in IPL history, after this innings, now he has 63 half -centuries in the tournament. He overtook David Warner in this list, named 62 half -centuries.
AB de Villiers beaten
In the IPL, Kohli has come second in terms of scoring fifty plus scores at a strong rate of 150 or more. He overtook AB de Villiers (33) by scoring a 34th fifty plus score of 150 or more. David Warner (35) holds number one in this list.
Over 10000 balls
Kohli has become the third player in T20 history, who has faced 10000 or more balls. Earlier, Shoaib Malik and Chris Gayle have done this in this format.
Significantly, in this match, RCB defeated Lucknow’s team by 6 wickets. After receiving the first batting, the Lucknow team scored a huge score of 227 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. Batting brilliantly, captain Rishabh Pant scored a century and scored an unbeaten 118 in 61 balls, in which 11 fours and 8 sixes hit. Opening batsman Mitchell Marsh scored 67 runs in 37 balls.
In response, RCB easily won by losing 4 wickets in 18.4. Apart from Kohli, acting captain Jitesh Sharma scored an unbeaten 85 runs in 33 balls.
