Royal Challengers Bengaluru icon Virat Kohli added another feather to his illustrious cap as he became the first-ever player to hit 9000 runs in the Indian Premier League. Kohli, who has been with the RCB since the inception of the IPL, achieved the milestone during his team's clash against the DC on Monday, April 27, at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.
Kohli got to 9K runs in the sixth over
Kohli needed just 11 runs to breach the mark and got there pretty easily in the second innings after the Capitals were shot out for 75 in the first innings. With his team having jolted the opposition, Kohli rubbed salt into the wounds with the two sixes that took the team home with nine wickets in hand and with 81 balls to spare.
Kohli reached the feat before his two sixes off T Natarajan when he took a single off Axar Patel in the sixth over. He drove one to long-off to get to 9000 runs as the fans cheered for him. The RCB maestro is the first batter to get to the mark in the Indian cash-rich league.
Players with most runs in IPL:
1 - Virat Kohli: 9012 runs in 267 innings
2 - Rohit Sharma: 7183 runs in 271 innings
3 - Shikhar Dhawan: 6769 runs in 221 innings
4 - David Warner: 656 runs in 184 innings
5 - KL Rahul: 5580 runs in 144 innings
Kohli, Padikkal power team in chase
While the things were set with the ball, Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal led the charge in the meagre chase. Playing in place of the injured Phil Salt, Jacob Bethell took the bowlers to the attack early in the chase. He made 20 from 11 balls with two sixes and a four before being caught brilliantly by T Natarajan in the deep. Padikkal and Kohli joined hands with the former, launching an attack and making a mockery of the chase. He continued his impressive rise and made 34 from 13 balls, while Kohli made 23 from 15 with two sixes, with the second one taking the team home, during a knock where Kohli breached the 9000-run mark too.
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