Virat Kohli smashes IPL century after 4 years, equals Chris Gayle’s special record

Virat Kohli smashed his sixth century in IPL historical past for Royal Challengers Bangalore in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday. After making a comeback by scoring good centuries in T20, Test, and ODI, Virat ended his century drought of 4 years in IPL at SRH’s house floor. In this innings, he accomplished his century off 62 balls and equaled the massive record of Chris Gayle. 

Kohli additionally crossed the 500-run mark within the 2023 version of IPL together with his good batting.  Moreover, he shared his fourth century partnership this season with Faf du Plessis. The star batter scored his sixth IPL century and has now equaled Chris Gayle for probably the most tons of within the league. He has scored 538 runs in 13 innings this season together with 6 half-centuries and a century. Virat Kohli had earlier scored 4 centuries within the yr 2016 and scored his earlier century within the yr 2019.

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Virat is fourth within the Orange Cap checklist of this season after Faf du Plessis, Shubman Gill, and Yashasvi Jaiswal. Earlier in September 2022, whereas scoring his century within the Asia Cup, Virat made a comeback. Then got here his century within the ODI collection in opposition to Sri Lanka, adopted by a ton in opposition to Australia within the Test collection. 

“Quite special contemplating the magnitude of the sport. Thought SRH bought an excellent rating. Ball was gripping as effectively. Faf’s been on a unique stage. I’ve had a quiet couple of video games. The approach I used to be hitting within the nets wasn’t transitioning into the center, Virat mentioned after profitable the participant of the match award.

“Crowd here was amazing today as well. Told Faf as well. Just felt like it was a home game for us. They were cheering for us, taking my name as well. I feel you can’t create this. I haven’t forced anyone to support me. It’s an amazing position to be in that you can provide happiness to so many people,” he added.

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