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Mohali: Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli celebrated a record today with his performance in the match against Punjab Kings. Kohli has crossed the milestone of 600 fours in IPL. Kohli has hit 602 fours in IPL. Punjab Kings skipper Shikhar Dhawan tops the list with 730 fours. The second is Delhi Capitals captain David Warner. The Australian player has 608 fours to his name. Rohit Sharma has hit 535 fours in the T20 tournament. Suresh Raina is fifth with 506 fours. Among them, Raina is the only one not to play.

Virat Kohli has the most runs, batting average, highest score, most fifties and most fours for RCB. RCB was led by Faf du Plessis in the previous games, but Kohli has again taken the captaincy in the match against Punjab.

Kohli last led RCB on October 11, 2021. After a gap of 556 days, Bangalore became the hero of Pata again today. Kohli led the Indian Test team on January 11, 2022. Accordingly another team is led after 15 months. Kohli has also become the player to score 6500 runs as a captain in T20. Today, Kohli has won two successful reviews as a hero.

Meanwhile, King Kohli became the only player in the history of IPL to score more than 30 runs. Dhawan, who has achieved this feat 91 times, and David Warner, who has crossed 30 times in 90 times, are behind. The Mumbai Indians skipper has crossed 30 runs 85 times. Suresh Raina also crossed 77 runs. Kohli has also become the player to score 6500 runs as a captain in T20.

Kohli is performing well in the 2023 IPL season. Kohli’s runs this season are 82 not out in 49 balls against Mumbai Indians, 21 in 18 balls against Knight Riders, 61 in 44 balls against Lucknow, 50 in 34 balls against Delhi, 6 in 4 balls against CSK and 59 in 47 balls against Punjab. The player scored four fifties in six innings.

Punjab set a target of 175 runs

Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 174 runs against Punjab Kings in a match where Kohli and Faf Duplessis were run machines. Kohli scored 59 runs off 47 balls while Duplessis scored 84 runs off 56 balls. Duplessis hit five sixes and fours each while Kohli hit one six and five fours. In the match that was destroyed by the openers, the run rate was affected by the fact that the later arrivals also did not see double figures. One down, Glenn Maxwell was ducked by Harpreet Brar. The catch was for Taide. Dinesh Karthik and Mahipal Lomror scored seven runs each. Karthik was caught by Arshadeep Singh to Taide and dismissed. But Mahipal remained unbeaten. Shahbaz Ahmed stood by with five runs off three balls.

Harpreet Brar (2), Arshadeep (1) and Nathan Ellis (1) took wickets for Punjab. Sam Curran conceded 27 runs in four overs and Rahul Chahar conceded only 24 runs but did not take any wickets.

Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli has achieved the record of 600 boundaries in IPL.