Royal Challengers Bangalore’s match against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur was all about one man – Virat Kohli. RCB’s opener smashed the IPL’s record eighth ton, thereby creating a first in world cricket. Virat Kohli scored 113*, which is his joint-highest score in the IPL, and is about to become the first batsman to score more than 7500 runs in the IPL. Now, he has scored 7579 runs in IPL while he has also scored 424 runs for the team in Champions League T20s. Therefore, he scored 8003 points for the team.

He is now the first player in the world to score over 8,000 runs for a single team in the T20 format.

Virat Kohli’s century blitz helped Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) register a 183/3 victory over Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Saturday.

The ‘Pink City’ Jaipur witnessed the brilliant batting of batting maestro Kohli, who became the first batsman to score 7,500 runs in the IPL in the history of the tournament. The batting maestro played a brilliant innings and remained unbeaten at 113 off 72 balls while captain Faf du Plessis scored 44 runs.

Kohli, who batted first, started his innings in an aggressive manner, extracting two boundaries off Nandre Burger in the second over.

Captain Faf du Plessis led his team from the front, breaking boundaries at regular intervals. In the sixth round of the competition, the two presented their 50-point partnership stance. Faf du Plessis bowled out Trent Boult for 15 runs with the help of two maximum runs in the 9th over.

With a brilliant six, Kohli scored a stunning half-century and his third goal of the season in the 11th over of the match. The RCB opener also scored a hundred in the 12th over.

Yuzvendra Chahal finally gave the team the breakthrough as he dismissed RCB captain Faf du Plessis, who Faf du Plessis) was caught after scoring 44 runs in 33 balls at the end of the 14th over. Chahal was denied the wicket of Du Plessis in the previous ball when Trent Boult took a catch near deep extra cover.

Glenn Maxwell struggled with his bat as he was bowled cleanly by Nandre Burger in the 15th over.

In the 19th over of the match, Kohli used his dominant performance to score his first hundred in IPL 2024 with 67 balls and to finish 8th overall in IPL, followed by his usual celebrations.

In the last match, Kohli kept the scoreboard running by smashing three boundaries off Avesh Khan in 20 runs to take RCB to a total of 183/3.

Brief Score: Royal Challengers Bangalore 183/3 (Virat Kohli 113*, Faf du Plessis 44; Yuzvendra Chahal 2-34) vs Rajasthan Royals .

With ANI input