Saturday , November 23 2024

IPL 2024: Virat Kohli's batting simultaneously broke the records of De Villiers and Chris Gayle

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IPL 2024, KKR vs RCB: The 10th match of IPL 2024 was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Kolkata won the toss and decided to bowl first. Virat Kohli and Cameron Green gave a great start to RCB in the powerplay. A glimpse of the way Virat is playing in the powerplay since IPL 2023 (Virat kohli ipl awards) was seen in this match as well. Virat's record is proof of this.

Virat Kohli's record in powerplay since IPL 2023 has been excellent. Kohli has played 264 balls and scored 367 runs. Meanwhile, his strike rate has been 139.01. Kohli has been out only four times in the powerplay. Talking about boundaries, Kohli has hit 51 fours and 5 sixes in the powerplay. That means Kohli has been giving strong starts to RCB. Same thing happened in this match also.

Another record in the name of Virat

Virat Kohli completed his half-century in 36 balls. With this, Virat has registered another record in his name. Took the record of most sixes for RCB. Kohli hit his 240th six by hitting Varun Chakraborty for a six on the second ball of the 12th over. Chris Gayle has hit 239 sixes for the team. After this comes AB de Villiers. AB has hit 238 sixes.

RCB team scored 61 runs in the first six overs. The team got its first blow in the second over. Captain du Plessis took an easy catch of Mitchell Starc on the ball of Harshit Rana. Plessis hit a six on the last ball. At that time RCB's score was 17 runs. After the wicket of Du Plessis, RCB's innings was handled by Kohli and Green.