Virat Kohli breaks tie with Chris Gayle on T20 world record; extends love affair with Chinnaswamy Stadium | Cricket News

Virat Kohli achieved a brand new milestone by breaking the world document for many half-centuries at a single venue in T20 cricket, scoring his twenty sixth fifty at Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday (April 24). His 42-ball 70 helped Royal Challengers Bengaluru safe their first residence victory of the IPL season towards Rajasthan Royals.
Kohli surpassed England’s Alex Hales, who beforehand held the document with 25 fifties at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. The stellar efficiency additionally established Kohli’s dominance in all batting parameters – common, fifties, centuries, and runs – in T20 format at a single venue.

The document for many fifties at one venue in T20 cricket now stands with Kohli at 26, adopted by Hales at 25, James Vince with 24 at The Rose Bowl, Tamim Iqbal with 23 at Sher-e-Bangla Nationwide Stadium, and Jason Roy with 21 at The Oval.

The RCB stalwart praised the venue and the followers. “This venue is the perfect place to play cricket within the IPL, and the followers backed us throughout good and unhealthy occasions. It’s a particular place and has a whole lot of particular recollections.”
Most fifties at one venue in T20 cricket

In one other vital achievement, Kohli overtook Chris Gayle within the complete variety of fifty-plus scores in T20 cricket. With 102 fifties and 9 lots of, Kohli’s tally of 111 fifty-plus scores now ranks second solely to David Warner’s 117.
Through the match, Kohli maintained a formidable strike charge of 166 earlier than his dismissal at 70. His partnership with Devdutt Padikkal produced an important 95-run stand, with each batsmen accelerating between overs 11-15.

The victory was notably vital for RCB because it marked their first residence win of the season, taking their complete to 12 factors with 5 video games remaining of their marketing campaign.
For Rajasthan Royals, the defeat marked their seventh lack of the season, placing them in a difficult place requiring extra than simply two factors from every of their remaining 5 matches to remain aggressive within the event.

Kohli expressed satisfaction with the workforce’s efficiency, notably their revised batting method. “Fairly comfortable, we mentioned a number of issues as a batting unit and utilized ourselves nicely sufficient to get a complete on the board. The primary problem right here is to win toss and second half it turns into a little bit of a benefit, now we have been preventing laborious to get an excellent rating within the first few video games, however the template at the moment was for one man to bat by way of and the remainder of the batters can go attacking and at the moment it actually paid off,” Kohli mentioned.

Kohli additional elaborated on the workforce’s batting technique. “There may be tempo and bounce within the first 3-4 overs, and I believe we tried to drive too many pictures within the final 3 video games, and at the moment we let the ball come and adjusted ourselves, and we had been capable of capitalise on these. We found out a method to bat now, and within the subsequent few residence video games, we ought to be in a greater place to get these further 15-20 runs.”
Most 50-plus Scores in T20s

Virat Kohli jumps to second in Orange Cap race

B Sai Sudharsan of the Gujarat Titans continues to steer the run charts with 417 runs in eight matches, boasting a median of 52.12 and a strike charge of 152.18. Following carefully is Kohli, who has risen to second place after scoring his second consecutive half-century, making 70 runs off 42 balls. He has gathered a complete of 392 runs in 9 innings.

Nicholas Pooran of the Lucknow Tremendous Giants, who began the IPL strongly and was the highest run-scorer from Recreation 7 to Recreation 39, has slipped to 3rd place with 377 runs from 9 innings on account of a tough patch.

In fourth place is Suryakumar Yadav from the Mumbai Indians, who has proven spectacular consistency this season with 373 runs. Though he hasn’t had any main standout performances, he has recorded scores of 29, 48, 27*, 67, 28, 40, 26, 68*, and 40* with none vital failures.

Simply behind Suryakumar are Jos Buttler of GT and Yashasvi Jaiswal, every with 356 runs. Nevertheless, Buttler has performed one fewer innings than Jaiswal, who had a sluggish begin to the season however has bounced again with scores of 75, 51, 74, and 49 in his final 4 innings.