In the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, match number 39 between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). RCB won the game by 9 wickets due to a sensational bowling performance by RCB. Chasing the target of just 75 runs in the second innings, Virat Kohli achieved a feat in the match.
Virat Kohli became the first batsman in the history of the game to score 9,000 IPL runs. He made this record in his name by taking a single against Mukesh Kumar on the last ball of the power play. Kohli needed just 11 runs to achieve this unprecedented feat that night.
Virat Kohli achieved another milestone
Virat Kohli is in sensational form in IPL 2026. He has been scoring runs in every match for the franchise, as he has played all 19 seasons for RCB since the beginning of 2008. He is the only player to score 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000 and now 9,000 runs. Franchise.
Virat Kohli remains the IPL’s leading run-scorer with 9012*, and he is also in contention for the Orange Cap, finishing fourth on the list with 351* runs in 8 innings in the tournament at an average of 58.50 and an impressive strike rate of 162.50. Kohli remained unbeaten on the night after scoring 23 runs in 15 balls.
Virat Kohli has the most number of sixes for any one franchise.
Just a few days ago, he became the first batsman to hit 800 fours in IPL. The 37-year-old batsman achieved this feat during his innings of 81 runs in the RCB vs GT match. He now has 808 fours in 275 IPL matches, more than any other batsman in the history of the tournament.
In the same RCB vs GT match, Kohli became only the third batsman to hit 300 sixes in IPL history, after Chris Gayle (357 sixes) and Rohit Sharma (310* sixes). Kohli now has a maximum of 305* runs. He has been one of the great players of this format and also for the franchise.
DC batsmen had no answer to Bhuvi and Hazlewood.
Talking about the match, RCB won the toss and decided to bowl first. They played with the same team in their previous win against GT. However, home team DC made three changes with the addition of Kyle Jamieson, Dushmantha Chameera and Sahil Parakh.
After being invited to bat first, DC lost Sahi Parakh in the first over. The duo of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood made DC batsmen look ordinary as they lost six wickets for just eight runs in the match, which is the lowest ever score of 5+ wickets inside 10 runs.
From there, they never recovered and were bowled out for 75 thanks to 30 from Abhishek Porel, who had come into the match as an influential player. RCB achieved the target of 76 runs in 6.3 overs with 9 wickets in hand.
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