Virat Kohli Creates History, Breaks His Own World Record In IPL 2025 Final Vs Punjab Kings
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) are currently taking on Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the IPL 2025 final on Tuesday (June 3) at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. All eyes were on Virat Kohli as fans expected him to put on a massive score and help RCB post a good first innings total. However, he played an uncharacteristically slow innings, scoring 43 from 35 balls. With this innings, the former RCB captain managed to create history as he broke his own world record.
Virat Kohli now has 1159 runs against PBKS in IPL history. This is now the most number of runs scored by a batter against a single opposition in the history of the IPL. He breaks his own record of scoring 1146 runs vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
1159 - Virat Kohli vs PBKS
1146 - Virat Kohli vs CSK
1134 - David Warner vs PBKS
1130 - Virat Kohli vs DC
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Virat Kohli has hit three fours during his innings of 43. He now has 771 fours in the IPL, the most by a player in the history of the league. He overtakes Shikhar Dhawan who has hit 768 boundaries in the history of the league.
Here are the batters with the most fours in the history of the IPL
771 - Virat Kohli
768 - Shikhar Dhawan
663 - David Warner
640 - Rohit Sharma
RCB Post 190/9 In 20 Overs
Virat Kohli was the top-scorer (43 of 35) despite playing a scratchy knock as Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) posted 190 on the board. Phil Salt (16 of 9) threatened to give RCB a quick start but was dismissed in the second over. Mayank Agarwal (24 of 18) and Rajat Patidar (26 of 16) also failed to convert their starts into good scores.
Liam Livingstone (25 of 15) and Jitesh Sharma (24 of 10) played some blazing but short innings in the latter end of the innings to get RCB to a respectable score.. P Kyle Jamieson and Arshdeep Singh were the pick of the RCB bowlers with three wickets each. Yuzvendra Chahal, Azmatullah Omarzai, Vijaykumar Vyshak took one wicket each.
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