Virat Kohli Records: In the 42nd match of IPL 2025, the teams of Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals are face to face today. This match is being held at RCB’s home ground M Chinnaswamy Stadium, where the team has not won a single match so far this season. At the beginning of the match, Riyan Parag won the toss and chose to bowl first. Playing first, Virat Kohli batted brilliantly for RCB and played a quick innings of 70 runs in 42 balls.
In this innings, King Kohli hit 8 fours and 2 sixes. This was the fifth half-century innings from Kohli’s bat in IPL 2025. Kohli also made many big records during this innings. In this article, we are going to tell you about those 3 records, which Virat Kohli made in the RCB vs RR match.
3. Most 50+ scores while batting first in T20
36-year-old Virat Kohli has scored his 62nd fifty-plus score in T20 cricket while batting first. With this, he has become the first batsman to score the most fifty-plus scores while batting first in the T20 format. Kohli has achieved this feat in the 214th innings. Earlier this record was registered in the name of Pakistani legend Babar Azam. Babar has scored fifty-plus scores 61 times in 159 innings.
2. Became the second batsman to score the most 50-plus scores in T20 cricket
With the help of this tremendous innings, Virat Kohli has now become the second batsman to score 50-plus scores the most times in the T20 format. Kohli has surpassed former West Indies legend Chris Gayle. Kohli has scored 50-plus scores 111 times. At the same time, Gayle has done this feat 110 times.
1. Batsman who scored the most runs at a venue in T20 format
Most T20 runs at a Venue
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3500* – Virat Kohli at Bengaluru (105)
3373 – Mushfiqur Rahim at Mirpur (136)
3253 – J Vince at Southampton (106)
3241 – Alex Hales at Nottingham (109)
3238 – Tamim Iqbal at Mirpur (110) pic.twitter.com/zuKl9JmmLc
Virat Kohli’s dominance is not only in ODIs and Tests but also in T20 cricket. The former RCB captain has now become the first batsman to score more than 3500 runs at a venue in T20 cricket. Kohli has scored more than 3500 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Kohli registered this record in his name during the 105th innings.