Virat Kohli breaks tie with Chris Gayle on T20 world report; extends love affair with Chinnaswamy Stadium

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Virat Kohli performs a shot through the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 cricket match in opposition to Rajasthan Royals at M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru. (PTI)

Virat Kohli achieved a brand new milestone by breaking the world report for many half-centuries at a single venue in T20 cricket, scoring his twenty sixth fifty at Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday (April 24). His 42-ball 70 helped Royal Challengers Bengaluru safe their first house victory of the IPL season in opposition to Rajasthan Royals.
Kohli surpassed England’s Alex Hales, who beforehand held the report with 25 fifties at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. The stellar efficiency additionally established Kohli’s dominance in all batting parameters – common, fifties, centuries, and runs – in T20 format at a single venue.
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The report for many fifties at one venue in T20 cricket now stands with Kohli at 26, adopted by Hales at 25, James Vince with 24 at The Rose Bowl, Tamim Iqbal with 23 at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, and Jason Roy with 21 at The Oval.
The RCB stalwart praised the venue and the followers. “This venue is the best place to play cricket in the IPL, and the fans backed us during good and bad times. It is a special place and has a lot of special memories.”
Most fifties at one venue in T20 cricket

In one other vital achievement, Kohli overtook Chris Gayle within the whole variety of fifty-plus scores in T20 cricket. With 102 fifties and 9 tons of, Kohli’s tally of 111 fifty-plus scores now ranks second solely to David Warner’s 117.
During the match, Kohli maintained a formidable strike price of 166 earlier than his dismissal at 70. His partnership with Devdutt Padikkal produced an important 95-run stand, with each batsmen accelerating between overs 11-15.

The victory was significantly vital for RCB because it marked their first house win of the season, taking their whole to 12 factors with 5 video games remaining of their marketing campaign.
For Rajasthan Royals, the defeat marked their seventh lack of the season, placing them in a difficult place requiring extra than simply two factors from every of their remaining 5 matches to remain aggressive within the event.
Kohli expressed satisfaction with the staff’s efficiency, significantly their revised batting strategy. “Pretty happy, we discussed a few things as a batting unit and applied ourselves well enough to get a total on the board. The first challenge here is to win toss and second half it becomes a bit of a advantage, we have been fighting hard to get a good score in the first few games, but the template today was for one guy to bat through and the rest of the batters can go attacking and today it really paid off,” Kohli mentioned.

Kohli additional elaborated on the staff’s batting technique. “There is pace and bounce in the first 3-4 overs, and I think we tried to force too many shots in the last 3 games, and today we let the ball come and adjusted ourselves, and we were able to capitalise on those. We figured out a way to bat now, and in the next few home games, we should be in a better position to get those extra 15-20 runs.”
Most 50-plus Scores in T20s

Virat Kohli jumps to second in Orange Cap race

B Sai Sudharsan of the Gujarat Titans continues to steer the run charts with 417 runs in eight matches, boasting a median of 52.12 and a strike price of 152.18. Following carefully is Kohli, who has risen to second place after scoring his second consecutive half-century, making 70 runs off 42 balls. He has amassed a complete of 392 runs in 9 innings.
Nicholas Pooran of the Lucknow Super Giants, who began the IPL strongly and was the highest run-scorer from Game 7 to Game 39, has slipped to 3rd place with 377 runs from 9 innings because of a tough patch.
In fourth place is Suryakumar Yadav from the Mumbai Indians, who has proven spectacular consistency this season with 373 runs. Although he hasn’t had any main standout performances, he has recorded scores of 29, 48, 27*, 67, 28, 40, 26, 68*, and 40* with none vital failures.
Just behind Suryakumar are Jos Buttler of GT and Yashasvi Jaiswal, every with 356 runs. However, Buttler has performed one fewer innings than Jaiswal, who had a sluggish begin to the season however has bounced again with scores of 75, 51, 74, and 49 in his final 4 innings.