Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star batsman Virat Kohli created history by scoring a brilliant half-century in the IPL 2025 match against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday (May 27). For RCB, who came out to chase the target in the last league stage match, Kohli scored 54 runs in 30 balls at a strike rate of 180, hitting 10 fours.

First cricketer in the world to do so

During this half-century innings, Kohli completed 9000 T20s for RCB. He has become the first cricketer in the world to score 9000 or more runs for just one team in T20 cricket. He is followed in this list by Rohit Sharma, who has scored 6060 T20 runs for Mumbai Indians so far.

Most half-centuries in IPL

Kohli has become the batsman to score the most half-centuries in IPL history, after this innings he now has 63 half-centuries in the tournament. He surpassed David Warner in this list, who has 62 half-centuries to his name.

Surpassed AB de Villiers

Kohli has come second in terms of scoring the most fifty-plus scores at a strike rate of 150 or more in IPL. He surpassed AB de Villiers (33) by scoring the 34th fifty-plus score at a strike rate of 150 or more. David Warner (35) is at the top of this list.

More than 10,000 balls

Kohli has become the third player in T20 history to face 10,000 or more balls. Earlier, only Shoaib Malik and Chris Gayle have done this in this format.

It is worth noting that in this match, RCB defeated Lucknow's team by 6 wickets. After being invited to bat first, Lucknow's team scored a huge score of 227 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. In which captain Rishabh Pant scored a century while batting brilliantly and scored an unbeaten 118 runs in 61 balls, hitting 11 fours and 8 sixes. At the same time, opening batsman Mitchell Marsh scored 67 runs in 37 balls.

In response, RCB won easily by losing 4 wickets in 18.4. In which apart from Kohli, acting captain Jitesh Sharma scored an unbeaten 85 runs in 33 balls.