This story is from March 28, 2019

Virat Kohli second batsman to score 5000 runs in IPL

Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli became the second batsman to complete 5000 runs in the history of the Indian Premier League. Kohli got to the milestone in the match seven of the IPL 2019 against Mumbai Indians.
Virat Kohli second batsman to score 5000 runs in IPL
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Key Highlights
  • Virat Kohli got to the milestone in the IPL 2019 match against Mumbai Indians
  • CSK's Suresh Raina is the other batsman to have achieved the landmark
  • Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma is third on the list with 4555 runs in 175 matches
NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli became the second batsman to complete 5000 runs in the history of the Indian Premier League. Kohli got to the milestone in the seventh match of the IPL 2019 against Mumbai Indians at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
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Suresh Raina is the other batsman to have achieved the landmark. The season opener against Bangalore saw Raina reach the landmark in his 177th IPL match.
Kohli joined the elite list in his 165th IPL match when he reached 46 off 31 balls.
The 30-year-old batsman failed to continue as he got dismissed off the very next ball. Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma is third on the list of highest run scorers in IPL with 4555 runs in 175 matches.
Kohli has scored as many as four IPL centuries and 34 fifties in the IPL. Interestingly, all his hundreds so far were scored in the 2016 edition. It was actually a tournament that saw him create a plethora of records in the IPL.
He is the only player in fact to have scored four centuries in one season. The 30-year-old also amassed 973 runs in 16 matches in that edition, at a mind boggling average of 81.08 that earned him his only Orange Cap in his IPL career so far.
Virat was the first player to breach the 4000-run mark in IPL. His tally of 973 runs still remains the most runs scored by a player in a single IPL season.
On the match front, an umpiring howler off the last delivery cost Royal Challengers Bangalore dearly as Mumbai Indians pipped the hosts by six runs largely due to Jasprit Bumrah's brilliant spell at the death.
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