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With the Himalayas watching over, Virat Kohli climbed to different highest successful IPL past connected Sunday, bettering his ain grounds to go the batter with the astir runs against a azygous hostile successful the tournament’s past during Royal Challengers Bengaluru’ clash against Punjab Kings astatine the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium successful Dharamsala.Kohli went past his erstwhile tally of 1,174 runs against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and took his full against Punjab Kings to 1,217 runs during his 58-run sound connected Sunday.Most runs against 1 hostile successful IPL:
- 1,217 — Virat Kohli vs PBKS
- 1,174 — Virat Kohli vs CSK
- 1,172 — Virat Kohli vs DC
- 1,161 — Rohit Sharma vs Kolkata Knight Riders
- 1,134 — David Warner vs PBKS
- 1,126 — Virat Kohli vs KKR
Kohli besides crossed different landmark during the innings by completing 500 runs successful IPL 2026.With that, the erstwhile RCB skipper registered his ninth IPL play with 500 oregon much runs, extending his grounds for the astir specified seasons successful tourney history.
Kohli present has 542 runs successful IPL 2026.Warner and KL Rahul are adjacent connected the database with 7 500-plus seasons each, portion Shikhar Dhawan has five.Most 500-plus seasons successful IPL:
- Virat Kohli — 9
- David Warner — 7
- KL Rahul — 7
- Shikhar Dhawan — 5
Kohli was dismissed connected the last shot of the 15th implicit aft scoring 58 disconnected 37 balls. He was trapped by Yuzvendra Chahal.Kohli has again been among RCB’s main performers this play arsenic the Bengaluru broadside proceed their propulsion for a playoff spot.Earlier, Punjab Kings won the flip and chose to vessel first.The lucifer was besides the 100th IPL crippled arsenic skipper for Punjab skipper Shreyas Iyer.RCB entered the contention astatine the apical of the points array with 8 wins from 12 matches, portion Punjab Kings were trying to extremity a five-match losing streak.
