New Delhi, May 29, 2025.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) batter Virat Kohli has become the first cricketer to score 9,000 T20 runs for a single franchise. He reached the milestone during RCB’s final league match of the season against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Tuesday.
Kohli, RCB’s all-time leading run-scorer, has achieved this feat by combining his runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the now-defunct Champions League T20 (CLT20). Before the match, he had 8,976 runs from 279 matches and 270 innings, averaging 39.54 with a strike rate of 133.49. His record included eight centuries and 64 half-centuries, with a top score of 113*. He remains the only player to represent a single franchise in every IPL season since the tournament began in 2008.
