Virat Kohli has been the man of the tournament so far. Whenever he steps out onto the field, it is a pleasure for any cricketing fan watching. The 27-year-old has been in brilliant form this year and he continued just that as he went on to score another IPL hundred against Kings XI Punjab at Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Not even the rain could stop Kohli from scoring a century as the match was reduced to 15 overs-a-side. Kohli's brilliant hundred helped RCB post a mammoth total of 211 in 15 overs. Chris Gayle put on a hundred-plus run stand with his captain and helped the home side set a highly challenging total.
Kings XI Punjab had only one way to approach the chase and that was to go all out. However, they lost wickets at regular intervals and fell well short of their target as rain interrupted play once again before the last over of the match. Applying the D/L method, RCB won the match by a huge margin of 82 runs.
Here are the major stats from the game:
1 – Yuzvendra Chahal picked up his first four-wicket haul in the IPL.
4 – Virat Kohli scored his fourth T20 hundred. In his first 180 T20 innings, he had no hundreds. He scored his four in the last 9 innings. This is also the most for any batsman in a T20 series. Michael Klinger scored three hundreds in the 2015 T20 Blast.
4 – RCB has scored more than 50 for the first wicket four times in the last six matches. In the first seven matches, they did not have any such instance.
7 – There have been seven centuries scored this IPL. This is the highest for any season. There were six hundreds in 2008, 2011, and 2012.
9 – Virat Kohli has scored nine 50-plus scores this IPL. This is the most for any player in a single season of the IPL.
10 – Virat Kohli has won ten man-of-the-match awards this IPL. This is the second highest for any player in a season. Chris Gayle had won 11 awards in 2015.
11 – Virat Kohli has scored 11 scores of 75-plus in T20s this year. This is the highest for any batsman in a year.
13.36 – The run rate of the 147-run stand between Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli. This was the second highest for a first-wicket century stand.
17 – AB de Villiers has 15 catches to his name in this IPL. This is the highest for any player in a season of the IPL.
26 – The number of balls that Chris Gayle took to reach his half century. This was the fourth quickest fifty by Gayle in his IPL career.
28 – The number of balls that Virat Kohli took to reach his half century. This was the joint second quickest fifty by Kohli in IPL.
99.33 – Virat Kohli's batting average in T20s in 2016. He has scored 1490 runs in 25 innings at a strike rate of 148.11.
129 – The number of runs that RCB scored in the first ten overs. This is the third highest score after ten overs in the IPL.
193.65 – Chris Gayle's strike rate in the last two matches. He scored 122 runs in 63 balls in the last two innings.
211 – RCB's score after 15 overs is the highest number of runs scored at the stage in the IPL.
2500 – Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli have scored more than 2500 runs together in T20s as a pair.
4002 – Virat Kohli became the first person to cross the landmark of scoring 4000 runs in the IPL.
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