Virat Kohli IPL Record 2024: The eliminator match of IPL 2024 was played between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In this match, Virat Kohli became the first player in the history of IPL to complete 8000 runs. He has made this historic record by scoring 30 runs in his innings against Rajasthan.
Kohli has completed the figure of 8 thousand runs in his 252nd IPL match. Along with completing 8 thousand runs, Kohli has also completed 8 centuries and 55 half centuries. Kohli played an inning of 33 runs in 24 balls in the eliminator match.
Kohli is the only player to score more than 7000 runs
Virat Kohli dominance in IPL is so much that till now he is the only player to score 7000 or more runs. Shikhar Dhawan is second in terms of scoring the most runs in the history of this league, who has currently scored 6,769 runs in 222 matches. That means there is a huge difference of 1,235 runs between Kohli and Dhawan who are in first and second place.
After that, Rohit Sharma, who is at third position, has so far scored 6,628 runs in 257 matches. These figures show that no other player is even close to Kohli in terms of scoring the most runs.
700 runs for the second time in the season
Since the beginning of IPL 2024, the Orange Cap has mostly been with Virat Kohli. Kohli has scored 737 runs in 15 matches so far this season at an average of 67. This is the second time in the Indian Premier League (IPL) that Virat Kohli has scored 700 or more runs in a single season. Earlier in 2016, he had scored 973 runs in 16 matches. The first player to score 700 or more runs in any two seasons of IPL was Chris Gayle, who did so in 2012 and 2013.