BENGALURU: Indian batsman Virat Kohli scored his 100th fifty-over T20 score during Royal Challengers Bengaluru IPL 2024 match against Punjab Kings in Bengaluru on Monday.
The 35-year-old is the third batsman to do so in T20 cricket. Kohli has managed eight centuries and 92 fifties. Of those, one century and 37 fifties came in internationals.
Chris Gayle leads the list with 110 fifty-plus totals, closely followed by David Warner in second place, who has 109 such scores to his name. Pakistan batsman Babar Azam is fourth in the list with 98 scores of fifty or more.
Remember, Kohli was given a reprieve for zero when he tried to slip off Sam Curran at first and was bowled by Jonny Bairstow. He made the most of life and scored a half-century, 51st in the IPL, in 31 balls.
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He could not finish the game and was out for his personal score of 77 off 49 which included two sixes and 11 fours.
Kohli’s performance in the lucrative T20 league will be closely watched as the event precedes the T20 World Cup in the USA and the Caribbean.
There were rumors that he was not counted in India’s T20 for the mega event
The 35-year-old played his first T20 since the 2022 World Cup in January against Afghanistan.
Captain Rohit Sharma also made a comeback in this series and is expected to lead India in the T20 World Cup from June 1.
Kohli also missed the five-match home Test series against England due to the birth of his second child.
The batting great had a memorable IPL last year, amassing 639 runs including two hundreds and six fifties.
