Virat Kohli IPL 2024 Record : The 68th match of Indian Premier League 2024 is being played today (May 18) between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings. Chennai won the toss and decided to bowl first. In this match, RCB's star batsman Virat Kohli has made a big record.

In fact, Kohli has become the second player in the history of IPL to cross the 700 fours mark. Earlier this figure was crossed only by Shikhar Dhawan.

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Now Kohli has also been included in Dhawan's list. Dhawan has hit the most fours in this IPL so far with 768. Now Kohli has become the batsman who has hit more than 700 boundaries. David Warner is third in the list with 663 fours. Then Rohit Sharma is at the fourth position with 599 fours and Suresh Raina is at the fifth position with 506 fours.

Kohli played an innings of 47 runs against Chennai

In this match played against Chennai Super Kings, Kohli scored 47 runs off 29 balls with the help of 3 fours and 4 sixes. His strike rate in this innings was 162.07. Kohli shared a partnership of 78 (58 balls) for the first wicket with captain Faf du Plessis.

RCB's 218 runs

Batting first after losing the toss in a do-or-die match, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 218 for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. Now RCB will have to restrict Chennai within 200 runs to reach the playoffs. For RCB, Virat Kohli scored 47 runs off 29 balls, Faf du Plessis scored 54 runs off 39 balls, Rajat Patidar scored 41 runs off 23 balls and Cameron Green scored an unbeaten 38 off 17 balls. Except for Mitchell Santner, every bowler of Chennai gave a lot of runs.

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Kohli is the highest run-scorer in IPL

Virat Kohli is the highest run-scorer in the history of IPL. He has scored 7971 runs at an average of 38.69 and a strike rate of 131 while batting in 243 innings of 251 matches in this tournament. In this he has scored 8 centuries and 55 fifties. Kohli has hit 702 fours and 271 sixes.

Orange Cap continues to dominate IPL 2024

Virat Kohli has an orange cap on his head in IPL 2024. Batting in 14 innings of 14 matches, he has scored 708 runs at an average of 64.36 and a strike rate of 155. He has scored 1 century and 5 fifties. Kohli has hit 59 fours and 37 sixes.