TATA IPL 2025: The King Achieved A Historic Feat In The Match Played Between RCB Vs LSG

Jitesh Sharma Led The Team From The Front

The wicketkeeper batter of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Jitesh Sharma was asked to led the side in this must win match versus the Super Giants yesterday. RCB’s bowling plans didn’t work. But their batters did a remarkable job in chase of a mammoth score of 228 runs. Jitesh Sharma was the top scorer of the game with unbeaten 85 run knock and Sharma Ji took just 33 deliveries to score those many runs with the help of eight boundaries and six maximums.

Before Jitesh showed his class, Philip Salt and Virat Kohli gave a good start to the Royal Challengers Bengaluru team. They added 61 runs from 5.4 overs, which set the platform for the other RCB batters in this run chase. Salt scored 30 runs and King Kohli scored 54 runs alongside, Mayank Agarwal also slammed unbeaten 41 runs from 23 balls, that helped the Bengaluru side to win this match and book a place in the qualifier one round against Punjab Kings tomorrow.

The King Is The Only Batter In The World To Score 9,000 Runs For A Single Franchise In T20 Cricket

Virat Kohli has been a permanent member of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru since the first edition of the Indian Premier League since 2008 edition. He is the backbone and a pillar of this RCB team. The former skipper has also scored the most runs as the captain of this IPL side and yesterday, he amassed 9,000 runs for this single team of the Indian Premier League, which is the most by any batter in the world for a single franchise of a T20 franchise league tournament.

The King is even the permanent orange cap holder in the history of the Indian Premier League tournament. He has amassed 8606 runs in the Indian Premier League, which is the most by any batter in the world of cricket. Adding to his tally of 8606 runs, he has also scored 424 runs in the Champions League T20 (CLT20), that tournament of the shortest format doesn’t exists anymore now. The King even has gone past the Aussie legend in more record in yesterday’s match of the TATA IPL 2025.

King Kohli Has More IPL Half Centuries Than David Warmer Now

In the history of the IPL, Virat Kohli has scored the most centuries while the Aussie opener and the former title winning skipper of the Orange Army, Sunrisers Hyderabad, David Warner had the record of smashing the most half centuries to his name. However, now the milestone of Dangerous Warner has been broken and Virat still owns the record of scoring the most 100’s in this cash rich league tournament.

In yesterday’s match, Kohli scored 54 runs, which was his 63rd IPL half century and that is also the most by any batter in this tournament. The King went past David Warner’s record of 62 half centuries in this league tournament. Warner played for the franchise teams of Delhi and Hyderabad in his wonderful stint in the Indian Premier League. He also won SRH the title in the edition of 2016 as a the skipper.