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It has been proved! Why is Virat called Boss, names of these 5 players including Kohli are recorded in the pages of history

By Samira Vishwas

IPL 2026: The 19th season of the Indian Premier League has started with a bang. Virat Kohli created a stir in the very first match of this season. He played a stormy half-century innings and made his team win the match. The bowling attack of Sunrisers Hyderabad looked completely helpless in front of them and gave up in just 15.4 overs. SRH bowlers could not even save the target of 202 from Virat Kohli. In this match, Virat Kohli has made a big record in his name.

Virat Kohli registered a big record

In this match, Virat Kohli came to open the innings for RCB. He faced 38 balls and played an unbeaten inning of 69 runs. During this innings, 5 fours and 5 sixes also came from his bat. During this innings, his strike rate was 181.57, with this he became the player in the history of IPL to score 4000 runs while chasing runs.

Virat Kohli is the batsman who has scored the most runs while chasing in IPL. Now, thanks to his brilliant innings against Hyderabad, he has scored more than 4000 runs while chasing. Currently there are 4027 runs in his name while chasing. Apart from him, names of three other Indians like Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Robin Uthappa are also included in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs while chasing.

Most runs in chase in IPL

  • 4027 – Virat Kohli
  • 3285 – David Warner
  • 3238 – Rohit Sharma
  • 2843 – Shikhar Dhawan
  • 2832 – Robin Uthappa

How was the condition of RCB vs SRH match?

In this match, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Rajat Patidar won the toss and decided to bowl first. When Sunrisers Hyderabad came to bat, they had a bad start and Abhishek Sharma, Travis Hayes and Nitish Reddy soon returned to the pavilion and became victims of Jacob Duffy. After this, Ishan Kishan 80, Anikesh Verma 43 helped the team reach 201.

After this, RCB achieved the target of 202 runs in 15.4 overs with the help of Virat Kohli 69, Devdutt Padikkal 61 and Rajat Patidar 31. Virat scored his 64th IPL fifty by playing an unbeaten inning of 69 runs. Jacob Tuffy was chosen player of the match for taking 3 wickets on his debut match.

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