Royal Challengers Bangaluru star batter Virat Kohli on Friday achieved an enormous feat in T20 cricket. He turned the primary Indian batter in T20 historical past to attain 12000 runs. Kohli reached the milestone throughout RCB’s IPL 2024 recreation towards Chennai Super Kings at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. With this, Kohli joined the elite listing that has the likes of Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard. West Indies’ T20 legend Gayle tops the chart with 14562 T20 runs, whereas Pakistan’s Shoaib Malik holds the second spot with 13360 runs. Star all-rounder from West Indies, Pollard, is on the third place with 12900 runs and England’s Alex Hales is on the fourth spot with 12319 runs. Then comes David Warner (12065 runs), who’s adopted by Kohli. The India star achieved the feat in his 377th T20 recreation and 360th innings.

Fresh from a break, Virat Kohli is in a terrific mind set. The participant had skipped India’s five-match Test sequence towards England that preceded IPL 2024. Kohli missed all the sequence as he welcomed his second little one in February this yr.

Mo Bobat, RCB’s Director of Cricket, who has been carefully watching Kohli throughout coaching, had reavealed that the good batter was hitting the ball fantastically.

“Virat’s in a good place. We all know he’s an absolute champion cricketer. So he’s at a stage of his career, in a stage of his experience now, where most of what he does is pretty hardwired into him. He’s coming in fresh, which is what we’re excited about,” Bobat had stated on the pre-match press convention forward of RCB’s match opener.

“Kohli has had a good bit of time off from his cricket. He’s in a great frame of mind. He’s had good family time, he’s fresh with his energy and he’s looking forward to getting involved. He’s had a few hits with us over the last few days and he’s hitting the ball brilliantly,” he had added.

(With ANI Inputs)