In IPL 2023, Virat Kohli has once again shown his old avatar to the world. He has completed his sixth century in IPL history. After waiting for four years, he scored a century in IPL. Earlier, after making a comeback by scoring a brilliant century in T20, Test, and ODI, Virat ended the century drought in IPL as well. In this innings, he completed his century in 62 balls and equaled the big record of Chris Gayle. He scored 100 runs in 63 balls.
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With this, Virat Kohli crossed the 500-run mark in IPL 2023. He also shared his fourth-century partnership this season with his partner Faf du Plessis. He scored his sixth IPL century and has now equaled Chris Gayle for the most hundreds in the league. He has scored 538 runs in 13 innings this season including 6 half-centuries and a century. Virat Kohli had earlier scored four centuries in the year 2016 and scored his last century in the year 2019.
Players with the most centuries in IPL
- Virat Kohli - 6
- Chris Gayle - 6
- Jos Buttler - 5
- KL Rahul - 4
- David Warner - 4
- Shane Watson - 4
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Virat Kohli hits sixth IPL century
Virat Kohli has done exceptionally well in this IPL season so far. His bat has yielded 538 runs in 13 innings of 13 matches. He is fourth on the Orange Cap list after Faf du Plessis, Shubman Gill, and Yashasvi Jaiswal. This season, which everyone was waiting for, he had now shown his century by doing that too. Earlier in September 2022, while scoring his century in the Asia Cup, Virat made a comeback. Then came his century in the ODI series against Sri Lanka and then against Australia in the Test series as well. Now in IPL too, Virat scored hundreds and gave his fans another chance to be happy. With this century, this season of IPL has become the joint highest season with 8 centuries along with the previous season.