Virat Kohli touched the milestone of 400 and 1000, showed his stormy style in the first match of IPL 2025
Virat Kohli created a world record in the opening match of IPL 2025, even Dhoni and Rohit have not been able to do this. RCB star player Virat Kohli created history on Saturday in the opening match of IPL 2025 against KKR. This was Virat Kohli’s 400th T20 match in which he scored an unbeaten 59 against KKR. King Kohli thus became the first player in the world to score 1000 runs against four teams in the IPL.
In every IPL season, every team tries to win its first match and start the season in a strong manner. Royal Challengers Bangalore did something similar when it defeated defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders by 7 wickets in the very first match of IPL 2025. The joy of a one-sided victory in the very first match of the season was enough for Bangalore fans, but this happiness increased manifold for them because the team’s biggest star Virat Kohli shone in this victory and also made records. Kohli touched the special milestones of 400 and 1000 in the same match.
RCB star player Virat Kohli played a half-century innings with the bat in the match against KKR on Saturday. On the basis of his unbeaten innings of 59 runs, RCB won the opening match of IPL 2025 by 7 wickets. This was Kohli’s 400th T20 match, in which he created history. Kohli has become the only cricketer to score 1000 runs against 4 different teams in the IPL. Virat Kohli has been a part of RCB since the inception of the IPL in 2008.
Virat Kohli became the world’s number-1 batsman in this matter
The very first match of the 18th season of IPL was very special for Bangalore and Virat Kohli. Virat, who wore jersey number 18 for his team, was playing in IPL for the 18th consecutive time and this 18th season was also won by Royal Challengers Bangalore. This match was also special for Kohli because with this he also touched the milestone of 400 matches. This was the 400th match of Kohli’s T20 career and he became only the third Indian after Rohit Sharma and Dinesh Karthik to reach this level.
Then he touched the milestone of 1000 runs
Now it was the occasion of the 400th match, so Kohli had to do something with his bat. The captain of Bangalore did not disappoint either. As soon as Virat came, he gave the team a quick start by hitting fours and sixes. During this, everyone’s eyes were on whether Virat would be able to reach 38 runs or not. As soon as Virat completed the 38th run of his innings by taking one run, everyone started clapping. In fact, with this 38th run, Kohli completed 1000 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL. Kohli became only the third batsman after David Warner and Rohit Sharma to do so.
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