Monday , December 23 2024

Kohli becomes the first Indian cricketer to achieve 'Virat' record

On Tuesday, there was a match between the teams of Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants. The IPL match was played at Chinnaswamy Stadium. In which Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and decided to bowl first. With this, RCB player Virat Kohli created history as soon as he entered the field. Actually, Virat Kohli played his 100th T20 match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. In this way, Virat Kohli has become the first Indian cricketer to play 100 T20 matches on this ground.

Virat Kohli made a big record!

Overall, Virat Kohli is the 15th cricketer to play 100 T20Is on any ground. This list includes 11 players from Bangladesh alone. Actually, 11 players of Bangladesh have played 100 T20 matches on any one ground. 11 Bangladeshi players have played 100 T20 matches at Shere-e-Bangla Stadium in Dhaka. Whereas, if we talk about other Indian players included in this list, Rohit Sharma has played 80 matches in Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, while Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played 69 matches in Chepauk Stadium, Chennai.

Let us tell you that if we look at Virat Kohli's T20 career, he has played 117 matches for India so far. Apart from this, he has represented RCB in 241 matches of IPL. In T20 matches for India, Virat Kohli has scored 4037 runs at a strike rate of 138.16 and an average of 51.76. In IPL matches, Virat Kohli has scored 7444 runs at a strike rate of 130.28 and an average of 37.79. Apart from this, Virat Kohli has 8 centuries in his name in T20 format, while in this format he has crossed the 50 run mark 89 times.