Virat Kohli reached the landmark in the second half of the IPL season.
RCB vs MI: Virat Kohli completed 13,000 runs in T20 cricket for the first time in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Royal Challenger Bangalore (RCB) and Mumbai Indians (MI) in Mumbai. In the second half of this IPL season, Kohli reached a milestone in his second half, becoming the fifth batsman, earning 13,000 runs in the shortest game format. The right-handed modern great man has achieved this feat in more than 400 games in his career.
Kohli retired from the T20 international mid-last year after helping India win the second T20 World Cup in the Americas, where he played in 125 games with a score of 4,188, and a first century with an average of 48.69 and a strike rate of 137.04. He is the third highest scorer in the T20I, behind Rohit Sharma (4,231 runs) and Pakistan’s Babar Azam (4,223).
Rohit was the second highest score in the total T20 cricket match, running 11,851 times in 451 games. Overall, Kohli had an average of 38.93 in the nine centuries and 1950s before the IPL conflict on Monday, with a strike rate of more than 132, and gained 12,983 runs before the IPL conflict.
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On March 23, the IPL season opening match between the RCB and the Kolkata Cavaliers was Kohli’s 400th match. Chris Gayle led the list of top scorers in T20 cricket with 14,562 in 1463 games, followed by Alex Hales, second-placed, running with 13,610, Shoaib Malik had 13,557 runs and Kieron Pollard’s fourth run with 13,537 runs in 555 games, while Kieron Pollard scored 13,537 runs in 13,537 runs.
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