It is now less than just 1 week to start IPL 2025. Its first match will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. Team India's star batsman Virat Kohli has joined his team RCB for this match. In the first match of this season starting from 22 March, he will have a chance to achieve a historic achievement. If Kohli scored a century in this match, then he will do so amazing, which no Indian batsman has been able to do in T20 cricket yet. After all, what is this special act?
Actually, Virat Kohli has scored 9 centuries in his T20 career so far. In this, 8 centuries have come in IPL, while 1 has come in 1 international T20 matches. If he scored 1 and centuries in the opener match against Kolkata, then he will have 10 centuries in T20 cricket. With this, he will also become the first Indian batsman to score 10 T20 centuries. So far no Indian cricketer has been able to achieve this achievement. However, Kohli will have a chance to do so throughout the season. Given the form in which Virat Kohli is in, there is every possibility that he will complete his 10th T20 century in this season.
Virat Kohli's name is also the record of scoring the most centuries in the history of IPL. He is at number one with 8 centuries. In this tournament, he set the first century against Gujarat Lions in 2016. He had hit 4 centuries in that season. At the same time, his previous century in the IPL came against Rajasthan Royals in 2024, where he scored 113 not out in 72 balls. After Kohli, after Kohli, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul are Indian players to score the most T20 centuries. The names of both are 7-7 T20 centuries.
Talk about Virat Kohli's IPL career, then Kohli made her debut for RCB in the 2008 season. He has been associated with this team since then. He has played 252 matches so far, scoring 8004 runs at an average of 38.67 and a strike rate of 131. During this time, 8 centuries and 55 half -centuries have been scored from his bat. He has also hit 272 sixes and 705 fours in the IPL.