Royal Challengers Bengaluru Defeats Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 Wickets, Virat Kohli Scores Century

New Delhi. In a match under the Indian Premier League held on Wednesday, Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 wickets, climbing to the top of the points table.

Bengaluru completed the target of 193 runs set by Kolkata in 19.1 overs, losing 4 wickets.

Former captain Virat Kohli played a spectacular century innings, remaining unbeaten, in Bengaluru's victory. He scored 105 runs off 60 balls.

With this, he has set many records in the match. Let's look at the statistics:

10 - Virat Kohli's unbeaten 105* runs against Kolkata Knight Riders is his tenth century in T-20 cricket, which is the highest number of centuries scored by any Indian batter in this format. Kohli is only the fourth batter after Chris Gayle (22), Babar Azam (13), and David Warner (10) to score 10 or more T-20 centuries.

409 - Kohli took 409 innings to complete 14,000 runs in T-20 cricket. He is the fastest batter to reach this milestone, surpassing Gayle (423 innings). Kohli is the sixth batter to complete 14 thousand runs in T-20 cricket and the first batter from India to do so.

9 - Kohli has scored 9 centuries in IPL, which is two more than the next best, Jos Buttler (7). Three of those nine centuries have come while chasing targets, which is jointly the highest scored by any batter along with Buttler (3).

279 - Kohli has played 279 matches in IPL, making him the player with the most matches played in this league. On Wednesday, he surpassed MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma, who have played 278 matches in IPL.

21 - Kohli has received 21 Player of the Match awards in IPL, which is jointly the highest received by any Indian along with Rohit Sharma. Overall, only AB de Villiers (25) and Gayle (22) have more such awards.

10 - In successful chases in IPL, there have been 10 partnerships of over 50 runs between Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal, which is the highest for any pair. They have scored a total of 1035 runs in 14 successful chases in IPL, including four century partnerships.

46 - In his unbeaten 105-run innings, Kohli scored 46 runs from the mid-wicket region. According to ESPNcricinfo's ball-by-ball log, this is the highest runs scored from this region in a T-20 innings. Only 6 batters have scored more runs from the mid-wicket region in a single IPL innings.

105* - Kohli's score of 105* against Kolkata is the highest so far in 33 men's T-20 matches hosted by Raipur. The only other batter to score a T-20 century at this ground is Kane Williamson, who scored an unbeaten 101* against Cape Cobras in the Champions League T-20 in 2014.

1 - Kohli became the first batter in IPL to score a century after being dismissed for zero twice in a row. Kohli had scored zero runs in his previous two matches against Lucknow and Mumbai respectively.

Overall, five batters have scored a century after being dismissed for zero twice in a row in T-20 cricket before Kohli - David Warner (102* in 2011), Rilee Rossouw (100* in 2022), Rohit Sharma (121* in 2024), Sanju Samson (109* in 2024) and Hasan Nawaz (105* in 2025).