Virat Kohli plays his 100th T20 match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday as Royal Challengers Bengaluru take on Lucknow Supergiants in IPL 2024 Super Giants). The star batsman of the Indian cricket team became the first Indian player in history to play 100 T20 matches at a single venue. Second place goes to Rohit Sharma who played 80 games at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. MS Dhoni is ranked third with 69 runs at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

Most T20 matches played by an Indian player at the same venue:

100 – M Chinnaswamy Stadium Virat Kohli, Bengaluru

80 – Rohit Sharma, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

69 – MS Dhoni at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Quinton de Kock played a brilliant batting 50 but Lucknow Super Giants lost their match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL In the middle, he shot 181 in five strokes and failed to surpass par.

De Kock (81 off 55) chose his bowlers and positions around the pitch to hit the ball with precision, but the RCB bowlers did not allow the other batsmen, except Nicholas Pooran (40 off 21), to run freely around the pitch Green tint.

The Super Giants got going quickly, scoring an unbeaten 32 runs in three overs before scoring 54 runs in the powerplay.

Most of the runs came from de Kock’s blade, who particularly favored pacer Mohammed Siraj.

The South African left-hander hit his three sixes – two in a row – spread over two overs – two powerful pulls and a nice mid-wicket angle.

KL Rahul, who captained the side after coming on as a substitute in the last match against Kings XI Punjab, started slowly scoring 6 runs in the first 10 balls.

But six sixes from left-arm pacer Yash Dayal, a well-timed hit straight over the bowler’s head gave his innings some impetus and he later swept off spinner Glenn with a six Glenn Maxwell, he was a bit lucky as Rajat Patidar could not time him well enough to jump around the rope and collect the ball.

However, Rahul died off the next ball as he tried to pull Maxwell’s long delivery into the hands of Mayank Dagar inside the circle.

Devdutt Padikkal struggled mightily during his 11-ball six, which ended with a left-hander Anuj Rawat’s left-hand pull being dismissed by Siraj , he ran back a few yards to catch the ball.

The second important innings of LSG’s innings came after Padikkal’s withdrawal as de Kock and Marcus Stoinis (24, 15b) added 56 runs in 30 balls for the third wicket.

De Kock, who scored 50 off 36 balls, continued his finish in this league with Stoinis hitting six each off Maxwell and Cameron Green.

But the flourishing partnership came to an end when Stonis’ half-hearted jab was met by Duggar.

At that stage, LSG had scored 143 for four in 16.3 overs and needed more runs to reach safer shores.

Pooran hit three sixes in a row off left-arm seamer Topley in the 19th over and hit two more tops off Siraj in the final over, as he completed the final over but LSG may be hoping for a bigger total.

(with PTI input)