Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star batsman Virat Kohli achieved a special feat by playing a brilliant innings during the IPL 2025 match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). This was Kohli's 400th T20 match and during this, he surpassed David Warner. Kohli has become the fifth-highest run-scorer in T20.

Made the second highest score of powerplay
The first match of IPL 2025 was played between RCB and KKR. Thanks to the century partnership of Ajinkya Rahane and Sunil Narine, KKR set a target of 175 runs in front of RCB. While chasing the target, Kohli made a great partnership with Phil Salt. Kohli and Salt came out to open the innings for the first time, but both of them troubled the KKR bowlers fiercely.

Salt and Kohli gave the team a great start and scored 80 runs without any loss in the powerplay. This is RCB's second-highest score in the powerplay in IPL history. RCB had scored the highest score in the powerplay last year against Gujarat Titans. At that time, the team had scored 92 runs for one wicket in the first six overs. At the same time, RCB hit 14 boundaries in the powerplay against KKR. This is the third time RCB has hit so many boundaries during the powerplay.

He led the team to victory by scoring an unbeaten half-century.

Salt played an innings of 56 runs in 31 balls, but Kohli stood firm till the end and returned to the pavilion unbeaten after scoring 59 runs in 36 balls and played an important role in giving RCB a victory by seven wickets. Virat Kohli completed the 56th fifty of his IPL career in 30 balls. He looked in great form and was successful in leading the team to victory. With this, Kohli became the fifth batsman to score the most runs in T20 and left behind former Australian opener David Warner in this matter.

The battle to move ahead between Kohli and Warner
As soon as Kohli scored 28 runs in the match, he left Warner behind. Before this match, Kohli had 12886 runs in T20, while Warner has scored 12913 runs in the shortest format of the game. Kohli now has 12945 runs in T20. It is known that Kohli has said goodbye to T20 International. Warner has also retired from international cricket, but he is playing in T20 leagues around the world. Warner will now be seen playing for Karachi Kings in the upcoming season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and during this time he will have a chance to leave Kohli behind.

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