Virat Kohli will be in action for Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Monday (April 7). The 36-year-old right-handed batsman will play for the Rajat Patidar-captained team against the Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2025 match set to be held at the famous Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. In RCB’s fourth league match of the current season, Kohli is poised to make history.
If in the high-voltage IPL 2025 clash between the two star-studded teams, Virat Kohli scores at least 17 runs, he will be the first Indian and the overall fifth batsman globally to reach 13,000 runs in T20 cricket.
Kohli debuted in T20 cricket on April 3, 2007, representing his domestic team Delhi against Himachal Pradesh and has since participated in 402 matches, accumulating 12,983 runs with the help of nine centuries and 98 fifties.
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Kohli has amassed 8101 runs in 255 IPL games for the Bengaluru franchise, and he additionally boasts 424 runs in 15 Champions League matches as an RCB player.
He concluded his T20I career with 4188 runs across 125 matches for the Indian team.
Ex-West Indies opener and captain Chris Gayle owns the world record for the highest runs scored in T20 matches. Throughout his 17-year career, Gayle represented more than two dozen teams and accumulated 14,562 runs in 463 matches. In the list of top run-scorers, he is succeeded by England’s Alex Hales (13,610 runs), Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik (13,557 runs), and West Indies’ Kieron Pollard (13,537 runs).
