Virat Kohli has made history for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL 2025
Virat Kohli has made history for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the IPL 2025. Since he played against Lucknow Super Giants, Virat Kohli reached 9000 runs for RCB as he scored 24 runs. He is the first player who reached this milestone since he is the former captain of the Indian cricket team. He also hit a half-century in 27 balls. Kohli marked another milestone feat. Kohi is the first batter to score more than 600 five times in IPL. Virat is RCB’s highest run-getter ever, considering figures from IPL and currently-defunct Champions League T20. Kohli was finally bowled out on 54.
Virat Kohli Achieves Historic Highs, Becomes 1st Ever Batter In IPL History To…
Most runs scored by a team in Men’s T20s
9004 – Virat Kohli for RCB
6060 – Rohit Sharma for MI
5934 – James Vince for Hampshire
5528 – Suresh Raina for CSK
5314 – MS Dhoni for CSK
600-plus total in an IPL season most frequently
5 – Virat Kohli (2013, 2016, 2023, 2024, 2025)
4 – KL Rahul (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022)
3 – Chris Gayle (2011, 2012, 2013)
3 – David Warner (2016, 2017, 2019)
Before Tuesday’s match, in 279 games and 270 innings, he has scored 8,970 runs at a strike rate of 133.49 and 39.54 average. He has recorded eight hundreds and 64 fifties. His top score is 113*.
He is the highest run-scorer in IPL history with 8,552 runs from 264 games and 256 innings at a batting average of 39.59 and including eight hundreds and 62 fifties. His best score is 113*.
For 15 CLT20 RCB matches, he has made 424 runs at a strike rate of 150.35 and average of 38.54 with two half-centuries. His best score is 84*. He is the team’s leading run-getter in the tournament.
Virat has been magnificent this year, heading the franchise’s score count with 548 runs off 12 innings at an average of 60.88 and strike rate of 145.35. Seven half-centuries have fallen his way, with the highest score of 73*. He is the sixth-highest run-getter in the tournament until date.
Rishabh Pant delivered his best innings of the season in the last league match, scoring a dazzling unbeaten century to lead Lucknow Super Giants to 226/3 in 20 overs in Match 70 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 at Ekana Stadium here on Tuesday. Pant, who was in a torrid form throughout the season, moved up and down the batting order but managed only one half-century, hit gold in the last match and produced a dazzling show of power-hitting as he hit his second IPL century to help LSG record the biggest ever chase at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. The previous record chase here has been 206 and RCB would not need to smash the record for the venue if they need to win this match.
Virat Kohli Achieves Historic Highs, Becomes 1st Ever Batter In IPL History To…
Pant remained undefeated on 118 from 61 balls and Mitchell Marsh continued his fine form for the season too with 67 from 37 balls as LSG reached a massive score.
RCB, who need to win this match in order to finish second and qualify for Qualifier 1, goofed with player selection, with skipper Rajat Patidar forced to warm up on the sidelines.
To bat first, Lucknow Super Giants were off to a wobbly start as debutant Matthew Breetzke (14 off 12, 1×4, 1×6), hit on the head by Nuwan Thushara, got out with 25 runs on the board, Thushara dispatching him with a beauty. But captain Rishabh Pant gave them a much-needed resurgence in their final match of the season as he and Mitchell Marsh shared 142 runs for the second wicket, leading the team towards a colossal total.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), who needed to win the match to finish in the top two, seemed slightly off-kettle on the pitch as their bowlers were slightly inefficacious in facing Pant and Marsh.
Pant seemed at ease as he started with a 2,6,2,4,0,4 on Yash Dayal in the fourth over and went from there as LSG reached 55/1 in the power-play.
Pant continued to flourish with a six and four off successive balls against Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the fifth over, a six and two fours in the 10th against Suyash Sharma, and a four and six off successive balls against the same bowler in the 10th as he hurtled towards his half-century off 29 balls.
Marsh, the LSG’s top scorer for this season, was equally as effective at the back-end as he crossed the 600-run mark for the season and took his half-century off just 31 balls as they reached 150-run together in 85 balls.
Pining to stem the flow of runs, RCB captain Jitesh Sharma brought Bhuvneshwar Kumar back into the attack but Marsh despatched his return with sixes off successive balls — the first over the bowler’s head, and the second a loft off a fullish wide ball down the leg, went high in the air but cleared miles down the long-off boundary. But the bowler had the last laugh as he induced an outside edge off a ragged seam delivery that came full on sixth stump. Marsh attempted a loft again but edged behind. He was caught for 67 off 37 deliveries that included four fours and five sixes.
Pant continued to thrive and achieved his second century in the Indian Premier League (IPL) within seven years when he hit boundaries with recklessness and went past the three-figure mark from 54 balls.
Pant played his best in the final match of the season, He had nothing to lose since his team was out of contention and was playing for pride. Pant played his shots nicely and was also helped by some tame bowling by the RCB bowling lineup.
Pant struck 11 fours and eight sixes for an unbeaten 118 off 61, playing in the third and fourth gear throughout the game. Nicholas Pooran scored 13 off 10 balls and was bowled in the final over as LSG set down the biggest of the chases for RCB.
