IPL 2026: Virat Kohli leaves Tendulkar and Faf du Plessis behind, becomes number one in this matter

Sandy Verma

Tezzbuzz|18-05-2026

Internet Desk. In the 61st league match of the 19th season of the Indian Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Punjab Kings. With this victory, RCB has become the first team to reach the playoffs of this edition. In the match, former team captain Virat Kohli has registered a big record in his name. Virat Kohli completed his five hundred runs in this edition of IPL.

With this, he has achieved another big feat, in which apart from the great player Sachin Tendulkar, he was also successful in leaving behind Faf du Plessis.

Former RCB captain Virat Kohli has now become the player in IPL history to score 500 runs in a season for the most number of times at the age of 35 or above. Kohli has done this thrice. Sachin Tendulkar and Faf du Plessis had achieved this feat twice each.

So many runs have been scored so far in this edition of IPL.

Let us tell you that Virat Kohli had scored 741 runs in the 2024 IPL season. In the 2025 IPL season, he was successful in scoring 657 runs. Now in this edition of IPL, Virat Kohli has so far scored 542 runs in 13 innings of 13 matches.

In that, 4 half-centuries and 2 century innings were seen from his bat. Virat Kohli played a stormy innings of 58 runs in 37 balls in the match played against Punjab Kings on Sunday. In this innings he hit four fours and three sixes. RCB won this match from Punjab by 23 runs.

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