Virat Kohli accomplished 12,000 runs in T20 cricket in the course of the IPL 2024 opener between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Chennai Tremendous Kings on the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday.
Kohli reached the milestone when he touched six runs in the course of the season-opening contest. The 35-year-old RCB batter is the sixth participant total and the primary Indian to achieve the 12000-run landmark in T20 cricket.
Kohli second solely to Gayle
Kohli reached the mark in his 360th T20 innings, making him the second-fastest batter to achieve 12000 T20 runs behind Chris Gayle, who reached the feat in solely 343 innings. Kohli pushed David Warner down to 3, the Australian having achieved the landmark in 368 innings.
Amongst Indians, workforce India skipper Rohit Sharma follows Kohli with 11,156 T20 runs.
Kohli has slammed eight T20 centuries in his profession, seven of which have come within the IPL – probably the most for any batter within the league. Kohli additionally stands third by way of fifty-plus scores in T20s with 99 such scores – solely bettered by Gayle and Warner.
Kohli made his T20 debut on April 3, 2007, for Delhi in opposition to Himachal Pradesh within the Inter-State Twenty-20 Match, later renamed because the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 trophy. He made 35 within the match.
The Delhi batter has predominantly amassed his T20 runs in internationals and the IPL. Kohli is the main run-scorer in T20Is, being the one male batter to cross 4000 runs as but. He’s additionally the main run-scorer in T20 World Cups (1141). Kohli has additionally prolonged his run within the IPL with RCB since 2008, changing into the one batter to mixture 7000-plus runs within the match.
Kohli additionally holds the file for many runs in a single version of the IPL (973 runs in 2016) and the T20 World Cup (319 runs in 2014).
Most runs in T20s
Chris Gayle – 14562 runs
Shoaib Malik – 13360 runs
Kieron Pollard – 12900
Alex Hales – 12319
David Warner – 12065
Virat Kohli – 12000*