The first century of the 17th season was scored in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Saturday. Virat Kohli of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) played an unbeaten inning of 113 runs in 72 balls. However, his century did not help the team and the team lost to Rajasthan by 6 wickets. Virat scored his 8th century in IPL, with this his 7500 runs were also completed. He became the first player to do so. Virat also became the player who took the most catches in IPL.
RCB Virat Kohli has completed 7500 runs in IPL. He made this record in his name as soon as he scored the 34th run in the innings. He became the first batsman to score 7500 runs in the IPL, making him the leading run-scorer in the history of the tournament. Virat was playing his 242nd match in IPL. The second top scorer of IPL is Shikhar Dhawan of Punjab, who has 6755 runs in his name.
Player | Team | Match | Run |
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Virat Kohli | RCB | 242 | 7579 |
Shikhar Dhawan | PBKS | 221 | 6755 |
David Warner | DC | 180 | 6545 |
Rohit Sharma | MI | 246 | 6280 |
Suresh Raina | CSK | 205 | 5528 |
Virat Kohli scored his first century against RR and the 8th of his IPL career. Virat already holds the record for scoring most centuries in the history of the tournament. He is followed by Chris Gayle, who has scored 6 IPL centuries.
Player | Team | centuries |
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Virat Kohli | RCB | 8 |
Chris gayle | PBKS | 6 |
Jos Buttler | RR | 6 |
KL Rahul | PBKS | 4 |
David Warner | DC | 4 |
Virat Kohli took the catch of Riyan Parag against Rajasthan on Saturday. With this, he took 110 catches in IPL and he also became the player with the most catches in the history of the tournament. He broke the record of Suresh Raina, who had taken 109 catches in the tournament.
Player | Team | Match | catches |
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Virat Kohli | RCB | 242 | 110 |
Suresh Raina | CSK | 205 | 109 |
Kieron Pollard | MI | 189 | 103 |
Rohit Sharma | MI | 246 | 99 |
Shikhar Dhawan | PBKS | 221 | 98 |
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