Virat Kohli, Royal Challengers Bengaluru batter, on Saturday grew to become the primary batter in IPL historical past to the touch 7500-run tally within the 17-year historical past of the match. Kohli achieved the feat throughout the match in opposition to Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur. The subsequent greatest tally in IPL belongs to Shikhar Dhawan – 6755 – over 740 runs lower than Kohli.

Virat Kohli can have the chance to turn into the primary participant to attain 8000+ runs for a single staff within the T20 format. To obtain the landmark, the previous RCB skipper wants to attain 110 runs in opposition to the Rajasthan-based franchise on Saturday.

Before Saturday, the 35-year-old has performed 256 matches and 247 innings for RCB, the place he scored 7890 runs at a strike fee of 131.23. He has 7 centuries and 54 fifties for the Bengaluru-based franchise. In the continuing season of the IPL 2024, Kohli is the best run-getter of the match.

Rajasthan Royals (RR) captain Sanju Samson gained the toss and opted to bowl in opposition to Faf du Plessis-led Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) of their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 match right here at Sawai Mansingh Stadium on Saturday.

RR heads into the sport on the again of a victory in opposition to Mumbai Indians (MI) whereas RCB suffered a defeat to Lucknow Super Giants in its earlier match.

With one victory in 4 matches, RCB are at the moment within the eighth place within the 10-team desk which pretty signifies their troubles whereas Rajasthan’s all-win document up to now positioned them on the second spot with six factors.

Speaking on the toss, Sanju Samson mentioned, “We would like to bowl first on this wicket. Something to do with the opposition, it’s a fresh wicket, expecting some help for the seamers and expecting some dew as well. It’s a long season, people are taking responsibility and finishing games. We are going in with the same team.”

Faf du Plessis mentioned, “We were thinking of the same, it looks a good wicket, think it will remain the same in both the innings. We have one change in our batting line-up. For me, it’s just a case of trusting our guys. We have been inconsistent, we get an opportunity to do things better. We are trying to find the roles for the players, we are looking for that. That hasn’t worked as yet. We haven’t delivered. Not many people know him, he has a serious amount of skill and batting power, and looks like a nice and calm guy.”

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Nandre Burger and Yuzvendra Chahal.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik(w), Saurav Chauhan, Reece Topley, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj and Yash Dayal.

With ANI inputs