After the colorful start of the Indian Premier League, the first match was played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday. Bengaluru scored 173 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Chennai achieved the target at the loss of 4 wickets in 18.4 overs.
Bangalore's Virat Kohli completed 12 thousand runs in T20 format as soon as he scored the sixth run in the innings. He became the first Indian to do so. He also completed one thousand IPL runs against Chennai Super Kings. Kohli completed 12,000 runs in T20 cricket. T20 cricket includes domestic, international and league cricket. Surpassing everyone, he crossed the mark of 12 thousand runs. He became the sixth and first Indian batsman in the world to touch the 12,000 mark. The record of scoring most runs in T-20 is in the name of Chris Gayle of West Indies. He has scored 14,562 runs.
Kohli crossed the mark of 12 thousand runs in his 360th innings. He became the second fastest batsman to reach this record. Before him, only Chris Gayle had completed 12,000 runs in 345 innings. Virat Kohli also completed one thousand runs against CSK. He crossed this record with his 15th run against Chennai, now he has 1006 runs against CSK. Before him, only Shikhar Dhawan could score 1000 runs against Chennai.
Virat has also scored one thousand runs against Delhi. He became the second batsman to score more than 1000 IPL runs against 2 teams. Before him, David Warner had also scored more than a thousand runs against Punjab and Kolkata. For RCB, Dinesh Karthik and Anuj Rawat made a partnership of 95 runs for the sixth wicket. This was the second highest partnership for the team for the sixth and below wickets. Earlier in the year 2022, Karthik had added 97 runs with Shahbaz Ahmed.
The record for the highest partnership for the sixth wicket against CSK in IPL is in the name of Anuj Rawat and Dinesh Karthik, both of whom added 95 runs. Earlier in 2021, Karthik had made a partnership of 81 runs with Andre Russell against CSK. Karthik then used to play for Kolkata.
Mustafizur Rahman made his debut for CSK, taking 4 wickets in his first 2 overs. Mustafizur ended his spell with 4 wickets for 29 runs. This was the second batting and bowling in the debut match for Chennai. Before him, in 2009, Shadab Jakati had taken 4 wickets for 24 runs in his debut match.