Virat Kohli became the first centurion of the IPL 2024 season as the former RCB captain thrilled the fans at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur with a well-paced knock against RR on Saturday, April 6. Kohli got to the three-figure score in just 67 balls as he assessed the conditions wonderfully well to give RCB a competitive total against the 2008 champions. It was a record-extending 8th century for Virat Kohli in the IPL.
It was the first time in IPL history that Virat Kohli struck a hundred in back-to-back seasons. In a season that broke records in 2016, Kohli scored four hundreds, one in 2019 and two in 2023. With three fifty-plus scores in five innings so far in the IPL 2024 season, including a century, Kohli has made a grand entrance and is letting his bat do the talking ahead of the T20 World Cup.
Additionally, Virat Kohli became the first centurion of an IPL season for the first time with this. In order to assist RCB reach 183, Kohli persisted and finished undefeated at 113 not out in 72 balls. In Jaipur on Saturday, Kohli scored nearly 60% of RCB’s total with four sixes and twelve boundaries.
Kohli had a career best score of just 39 at Jaipur prior to Saturday, but he transformed Sawai Mansingh Stadium into his own with a masterpiece in T20 innings construction. Against Yuzvendra Chahal, a former teammate of Kohli’s, and left-arm bowler Trent Boult, you win. In the last over of the leg-spinner, Kohli struck a massive six and grinned, signalling to the bowler that he had won their little duel.
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