Virat Kohli created history, became Asia’s first batsman to complete 100 half -centuries in T20 cricket

India’s star batsman Virat Kohli has achieved another big position in T20 cricket. Kohli has now become the first batsman in Asia to complete 100 half -centuries in T20 cricket. He achieved this achievement in the IPL match played against Rajasthan Royals at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.

Memorable innings played against Rajasthan

Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 62 in this match played on Sunday and got his team Royal Challengers Bangalore a target of 174 runs with 9 wickets in 17.3 overs.

• This was Kohli’s 58th half -century in the IPL.
• With this innings, he completed 100 half -centuries in T20 cricket.
• He has become the second player to achieve this feat after David Warner of Australia.

Kohli equaled Warner’s record in IPL

• David Warner has scored 62 half -centuries and 4 centuries in T20 cricket.
• Kohli has so far scored 58 half -centuries and 8 centuries in 258 IPL matches.
• With this, the number of 50+ scores of Kohli has increased to 66, which is equal to Warner’s record in IPL history.

First Indian to complete 13,000 runs in T20 cricket

Earlier this week, Virat Kohli made another achievement:

• He became the first Indian batsman to score 13,000 runs in T20 cricket.
• So far only Chris Gayle, Alex Hales, Shoaib Malik and Kieron Pollard have been able to do this feat in the world.
• Virat Kohli is now fifth in this list.

T20 International career was also great

• Kohli has scored 4,188 runs in 125 T20 international matches for India,
• Which includes 1 century and 38 half -centuries.
• He retired from T20 International on 29 June 2024.
• In his last T20 match, he scored a 76 -run match against South Africa in the final of 59 balls in the final of the T20 World Cup 2024.
• On the basis of that innings, India won the World Cup under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, after which Kohli said goodbye to this format.
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