Royal Challengers Bengaluru's maestro Virat Kohli has become the first Indian batter to script a massive record in T20 cricket. Kohli-starrer RCB are up against Chennai Super Kings in the first match of the IPL 2024. The RCB star has returned to competitive cricket after a paternity break and has entered the record books quickly soon.
Kohli has become the first Indian player to score 12000 runs in T20 cricket and has joined a pretty rare and elite list of players. He is also the third-fastest player to have smashed 12K runs in the format.
Before Kohli, only five players in the world were able to get to the mountainous feat. Chris Gayle, Shoaib Malik, Kieron Pollard, Alex Hales and David Warner were the only players before Kohli in this list. Notably, he is also the third-fastest in terms of matches taken. The Indian maestro got to the milestone in his 377th T20 match, while Gayle is the fastest, having made 12000 runs in just 353 matches.
Fastest to 12000 T20 runs (in terms of matches):
Chris Gayle: 353 matches
David Warner: 369 matches
Virat Kohli: 377 matches
Alex Hales: 435 matches
Shoaib Malik: 486 matches
Kieron Pollard: 620 matches
Kohli gets to 1000 runs vs CSK
The RCB icon has also scaled another big milestone during the IPL 2024 opener. He became the second batter to have scored 1000 runs against CSK in IPL.
CSK's Playing XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Rachin Ravindra, Ajinkya Rahane, Daryl Mitchell, Ravindra Jadeja, Sameer Rizvi , MS Dhoni (wk), Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mustafizur Rahman, Tushar Deshpande
RCB's Playing XI: Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Anuj Rawat, Karn Sharma, Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj
