The Indian Premier League got underway with a spectacular opening, and on Friday, the first game featured the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK). In 20 overs, Bengaluru amassed 173 runs at a cost of six wickets. Chennai lost four wickets in just 18.4 overs to reach the mark.
As soon as he struck the sixth run of the innings, Bangalore's Virat Kohli reached the milestone of 12 thousand runs in the T20 format. He did it to become the first batsman from India. In the IPL, he also scored a thousand runs against the Chennai Super Kings. Tell us the best records set in the opening game.
1. Kohli scored 12,000 runs in the T-20 format.
Virat Kohli reached a milestone of 12,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket. League, international, and domestic cricket are all included in T-20 cricket. They exceeded the 12-thousand-run mark together. He reached the milestone of 12,000 runs, making history as the first Indian batsman and the sixth player in the globe. Chris Gayle of the West Indies holds the record for most runs scored in a T-20 tournament. His run total is 14,562 runs.
2. Kohli: With 12,000 runs scored in the fewest innings, Kohli is ranked second among batsmen.
In his 360th innings, Kohli reached the milestone of 12,000 runs. He broke the record for being the second-fastest batsman ever. Chris Gayle had scored 12,000 runs in 345 innings prior to him.
3. Against CSK, Virat Kohli reached the 1,000-run mark.
Against CSK, Virat Kohli also reached the thousand-run mark. After scoring his fifteenth run against Chennai, he broke this record, and he currently has 1006 runs versus CSK. The only person to score a thousand runs against Chennai before him was Shikhar Dhawan.
In addition, Virat has amassed a thousand runs versus Delhi. Against two teams, he became the second batsman in the IPL history to score more than a thousand runs. David Warner has previously amassed over a thousand runs in matches against Kolkata and Punjab.
4. Karthik and Rawat formed an unprecedented alliance.
For the sixth wicket, Dinesh Karthik and Anuj Rawat combined to score 95 runs for the Royals. For the team, this was the second-highest partnership at six wickets or less. Along with Shahbaz Ahmed, Karthik has scored 97 runs earlier in 2022.
5. Against CSK, a duo scored more than 90 runs for the first time.
When Anuj Rawat and Dinesh Karthik made 95 runs together for the sixth wicket against CSK in the IPL, it became the record partnership. Karthik and Andre Russell shared a partnership of 81 runs earlier in 2021 against CSK. Karthik was a player for Kolkata back then.
6. Mustafizur gave CSK's bowling debut the second-best performance.
On Friday, Mustafizur Rahman made his CSK debut, taking four wickets in his opening two overs. Mustafizur took 4 wickets for 29 runs at the end of his spell. In the first game, Chennai's bowling was ranked second best. Shadab Jakati had taken four wickets for twenty-four runs in his debut match in 2009, prior to him.
