IPL 2023: Virat Kohli storm in IPL after 1489 days, equals Chris Gayle in this matter
Virat Kohli equals Chris Gayle: The RCB team defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets in the 65th match of IPL 2023 and kept their hopes alive in the playoff race.
Batting first in the match, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 186 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. In response, the RCB team achieved the target in 19.2 overs. Virat Kohli played a century for the RCB team and after 4 years, performed amazingly in the IPL.
Virat Kohli created a storm in IPL after 1489 days :-
Actually, RCB team’s star batsman Virat Kohli batted with a bang while chasing 187 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium and shared a 172-run partnership with captain Faf Duplesey. 186 runs scored. In response to this, on the basis of Virat Kohli’s century innings and Faf Duplesey’s explosive innings, RCB achieved the target at the loss of 2 wickets in 19.2 overs.
Kohli’s 6th century in IPL :-
Virat Kohli scored the first century of IPL 2023 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. This was the sixth century of his IPL career. Earlier, he last scored a century in 2019 against KKR. In such a situation, he did this feat after a total of 1489 days.
Earlier in the year 2016, a total of 4 centuries scored in IPL. He scored an inning of 113 runs in 50 balls in a 15-over match against Punjab Kings on 18 May 2016, during that innings Virat was injured while fielding and he had 9 stitches in his hand. Despite that, in the year 2016 against Punjab Kings in 50, he played the match despite having stitches in his hand and the whole world saluted him.
Kohli equals Chris Gayle’s record :-
Please tell that with the sixth century, Kohli equaled Chris Gayle in terms of scoring the most centuries in IPL. Gayle of West Indies has 6 centuries in IPL. In this way Virat Kohli has also reached in this case with the sixth century.
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