Virat Kohli played a superb knock for Royal Challengers Bengaluru against Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium on Monday. The RCB opener scored 67 runs off 42 balls with the help of 8 fours and 2 sixes. Kohli lost his wicket to MI captain Hardik Pandya. He top-edged Hardik’s delivery and ended up beight caught out at deep square leg. After his dismissal, Kohli found it hard to control his emotions. He smashed his bat and threw his gloves in the dressing room.
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In the match, Kohli became the first Indian to complete 13,000 runs in T20 cricket.
Kohli reached the landmark with his second half-century this IPL season to become only the fifth batter overall to have scored 13,000 runs in the shortest format of the game.
The right-handed modern day great achieved the feat in a little over 400 matches in his career.
Kohli had retired from T20 Internationals in the middle of last year after helping India win their second T20 World Cup in the Americas, having played 125 matches to score 4,188 runs with one century and 38 fifties at an average of 48.69 and strike rate of 137.04.
He is the third-highest run scorer in T20Is after Rohit Sharma (4,231 runs) and Pakistan’s Babar Azam (4,223).
Rohit is the second in the list among highest run-scorers in overall T20 cricket with 11,851 runs in 451 matches.
Overall, Kohli had scored 12,983 runs before the IPL clash on Monday with nine centuries and 98 fifties at an average of 38.93 and strike rate of over 132.
The IPL season-opening contest between RCB and Kolkata Knight Riders on March 23 was Kohli’s 400th game in the shortest format.
Chris Gayle leads the list of highest run-scorers in T20 cricket with 14,562 in 463 matches, followed by Alex Hales at the second spot with 13,610 runs, Shoaib Malik at third with 13,557 runs in 555 matches and Kieron Pollard at the fourth position with 13,537 runs in 695 matches.
It is worth noting that Kohli is also the leading run-scorer in IPL history and only batter to reach the milestone of 8000 runs. In 256 IPL matches, Kohli has scored 8 centuries, the most by any batter.
(With PTI Inputs)
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