Virat Kohli completed 12,000 runs in T20 cricket during the IPL 2024 opener between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday.
Kohli reached the milestone when he touched six runs during the season-opening contest. The 35-year-old RCB batter is the sixth player overall and the first Indian to reach the 12000-run landmark in T20 cricket.
Kohli reached the mark in his 360th T20 innings, making him the second-fastest batter to reach 12000 T20 runs behind Chris Gayle, who reached the feat in only 343 innings. Kohli pushed David Warner down to three, the Australian having achieved the landmark in 368 innings.
Kohli has slammed eight T20 centuries in his career, seven of which have come in the IPL – the most for any batter in the league. Kohli also stands third in terms of fifty-plus scores in T20s with 99 such scores – only bettered by Gayle and Warner.
The Delhi batter has predominantly amassed his T20 runs in internationals and the IPL. Kohli is the leading run-scorer in T20Is, being the only male batter to cross 4000 runs as yet. He is also the leading run-scorer in T20 World Cups (1141). Kohli has also extended his run in the IPL with RCB since 2008, becoming the only batter to aggregate 7000-plus runs in the tournament.
