Virat Kohli first player 9000 IPL Runs: Royal Challengers Bangalore registered a big win in the 39th match of IPL 2026. In this match, RCB defeated Delhi Capitals with a huge margin of 9 wickets. At the same time, this match was also special for the team’s star batsman Virat Kohli. In this season of IPL, once again Royal Challengers Bangalore’s star batsman Virat Kohli created history. On April 27, Kohli made a big record in the match played against Delhi Capitals at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. He became the first batsman in the world to complete 9000 runs in the history of IPL.
Big achievement achieved in 275th match
Virat Kohli was playing the 275th match of his IPL career and needed only 11 runs to reach this milestone. He achieved this historic feat by taking a single on the last ball of the sixth over of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s innings. To reach this record, Kohli faced a total of 6732 balls. This figure reflects his consistency and excellent performance.
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Leading the list of top run scorers
Virat Kohli remains at the first place in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs in IPL. After them come the names of Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner and KL Rahul. Rohit Sharma Has scored more than 7000 runs in 276 matches. Whereas Shikhar Dhawan has ended his IPL career after scoring more than 6700 runs in 222 matches. David Warner tops the list of foreign batsmen with more than 6500 runs in 184 matches. KL Rahul has scored more than 5500 runs in 153 matches.
Batsman who scored most runs in IPL
- Virat Kohli – 9012 runs
- Rohit Sharma – 7183 runs
- Shikhar Dhawan – 6769 runs
- David Warner – 6565 runs
- KL Rahul – 5580 runs
- Suresh Raina – 5528 runs
Also read: Delhi Capitals surrender in front of Bhuvi-Heddlewood in the capital, collapsed for 75 runs, RCB won the match by 9 wickets
Close to another record against Delhi
Virat Kohli Had a chance to make another big record against Delhi Capitals. However, even before this, Royal Challengers Bangalore achieved the target of 76 runs in 6.3 overs. If Kohli had scored 27 runs in this match, he would have become the first batsman to score 1200 runs against a single team in T20 cricket. Currently, he has 1184 runs in his name in 34 matches against Delhi. He can also make this record in his name in the coming matches.
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