Virat Kohli
The match was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore on 22 March in IPL 2025, which RCB won by 7 wickets. In this match, Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 59 runs. With this innings, he reached number five in terms of scoring the most runs in T20 format. He overtook Australian veteran David Warner in this case. Let us tell you that this was the 400th T20 match of Virat Kohli. He became the third Indian player to play 400 matches in cricket’s shortest format. Prior to him, Rohit Sharma (448 matches) and Dinesh Karthik (412 matches) have achieved this feat.
These players are ahead of Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli has now scored 345 runs in 383 innings of 400 matches at an average of 41.62. He has reached number 5 in the list of players who have scored the most runs. In this list, the name of former West Indies veteran opener Chris Gayle is on number 1. He has scored 14562 runs in 455 innings of 463 matches. During this time his average was 36.22. At the same time, England’s Dhakad opener Alex Hales is named at number two in the list. Hales has scored 13610 runs in 490 innings of 494 matches in T20 at an average of 30.02. At number three, West Indies veteran all -rounder Kiren Pollard has scored 13537 runs in 617 innings of 695 matches at an average of 31.33. At number four is Pakistan’s veteran middle order batsman Shoaib Malik. He has scored 13537 runs in 513 innings of 554 matches at an average of 36.09 in this format.
Virat Kohli set another record against KKR
Thanks to this half -century innings, Virat Kohli also became the third batsman to score more than a thousand runs against Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. In this case, he left Suresh Raina behind. Raina scored 966 runs in 28 matches against KKR. Virat Kohli’s name against this team has now been 1018 runs in 36 matches. Warner and Rohit are ahead of him in this list. David Warner has scored 1093 runs in 28 matches against KKR, while Rohit’s name has 1070 runs in 34 matches against this team.
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