Delhi: Whether it was an international match or an exciting match of the Indian Premier League (IPL), whenever Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) great batsman Virat Kohli landed on the ground, records went on to make them automatically. A similar view was seen in the match against Mumbai Indians (Mi) on Monday. As soon as Kohli completed 17 runs in this match, he created a new history. Such a feat, which no Indian batsman could do till date.

The 20th match of IPL 2025 is being played between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Mumbai Indians (Mi) at Wankhede Stadium. In this high-voltage match, everyone's eyes were once again on Kohli. As soon as he completed 17 runs, he became the first Indian batsman to score 13 thousand runs in T20 cricket.

Kohli completed 13000+ runs

Virat Kohli started the T20 career in 2007 and since then (till today) he had scored more than 12983 runs in 402 matches at an average of 41.47 and a strike rate of 134.20. During this time, 9 centuries and 98 half -centuries came out of his bat. He played 255 matches so far in the IPL, in which he scored 8101 runs at a strike rate of 132 and an average of 38.76. During this, Kohli also scored 8 centuries and 56 half -centuries.

At the same time, Virat has scored 4188 runs in 125 matches in T20 International at a strike rate of 137.04 and an average of 48.69. These include 1 century and 38 half -centuries.

Become the fifth batsman in the world

Although Kohli definitely became Indian, but he was the fifth batsman of the world to score 13 thousand runs in T20 cricket. Prior to them, this feat was done by four foreign players. At the top of this list was Chris Gayle, whose names are 14562 runs. At number two was Alex Hales (13610 runs), Shoaib Malik (13557 runs) at third and Kieron Pollard (13537 runs) in fourth place.