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Virat Kohli created history in the final, created 3 big records, captured these 4 awards with his explosive innings.

By Samira Vishwas

Virat Kohli: Virat Kohli made Royal Challengers Bangalore the IPL 2026 champion by performing brilliantly in the final of IPL 2026. He showed an amazing game against Gujarat Titans at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad and played a stormy half-century. Thanks to this inning, Virat Kohli made his team win by remaining unbeaten and became the winner of the Indian Premier League for the second consecutive time. In this match, Virat Kohli created a stir with his batting.

Virat Kohli faced 42 balls in this match. During this, he hit 9 fours and 3 skyscraper sixes. Virat played an unbeaten inning of 75 runs with a strike rate of 178.57 in the final match. Along with this inning, he also made 3 big records in this match. Along with this, he received 4 big awards in the final of IPL 2026. So, let us know about which records he made and which 4 records he achieved.

Virat Kohli scored his fastest half century

Virat Kohli has scored his fastest half-century in the history of the Indian Premier League. He completed his half-century in just 25 balls against Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2026 final. Earlier, the fastest half-century in his name in IPL was in 26 balls, which came against Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2018. In such a situation, he has scored the fastest IPL half-century after 8 years.

Kohli’s fastest 50 runs in IPL (according to balls)

25 vs GT, Ahmedabad, 2026
26 vs RR, Bengaluru, 2018
26 vs DC, Delhi, 2018
27 vs LSG, Lucknow, 2025

Virat created history in IPL final

With this inning, Virat Kohli has joined the list of players who have scored the fastest half-century in the IPL final. He has become jointly the second batsman to score the fastest (in fewer balls) half-century in the IPL final. In the history of IPL final, Suresh Raina, David Warner, Venkatesh Iyer have scored half-centuries on 24-24 balls and Rohit Sharma, Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli have scored half-centuries on 25-25 balls.

Fastest 50 in IPL final (by balls)

24 – Suresh Raina (CSK) vs MI, Mumbai DYP, 2010
24 – David Warner (SRH) vs RCB, Bengaluru, 2016
24 – Venkatesh Iyer (KKR) vs SRH, Chennai, 2024
25 – Rohit Sharma (MI) vs CSK, Kolkata, 2015
25 – Chris Gayle (RCB) vs SRH, Bengaluru, 2016
25 – Virat Kohli (RCB) vs GT, Ahmedabad, 2026

Virat becomes the oldest player to do this

For this innings, Virat Kohli won the Player of the Award and with this he also made a record in his name. Now Virat Kohli has become the second oldest player to win the Player of the Match award in the IPL final. Virat has registered this record in his name at the age of 37 years and 207 days.

Oldest player to win POTM in IPL final

38 years 219 days – Anil Kumble (RCB, 2009)
37 years 207 days – Virat Kohli (RCB, 2026)
37 years 94 days – Faf du Plessis (CSK, 2021)
36 years 344 days – Shane Watson (CSK, 2018)

Virat Kohli did this feat after 10 years

Virat Kohli has scored a half-century in the IPL final after 10 years. He had earlier scored a century for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2016 final. Now after ten years in IPL 2026, he has scored a half-century in the final against Gujarat Titans.

Virat Kohli became the first batsman to do so in IPL

Virat Kohli scored a total of 675 runs in this IPL. With this, Virat has become the first player to score 600 plus runs in 4 consecutive seasons of the Indian Premier League. No one else has been able to do this feat before him.

Virat Kohli received these awards

Virat Kohli received the Player of the Match award for his brilliant half-century innings in this match. This award was presented to Virat by BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia. He received a prize money of Rs 5 lakh for being the player of the match in the final.

Virat Kohli received the Super Sixes of the Match award for hitting the most sixes in the final of IPL 2026. For this he was given a prize money of Rs 1 lakh and a trophy.

Along with this, Virat Kohli received the Rupee on the Go 4s award for hitting the most fours in this match. For this also he was given Rs 1 lakh and a trophy as reward.

Virat Kohli was also chosen as the Coolest Performer of the Match for the IPL 2026 final. He did not get any award for this, only IPL anchor Mayanti Langer announced through TV broadcast that Virat becomes the ‘Coolest Performer of the Match’.

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