Kohli completed his 6000 runs in the IPL by scoring a half-century against the Rajasthan Royals. He made this record after hitting a boundary to Chris Morris. Before this match, Kohli's run tally was at 5,946 runs as soon as he reached the score of 54 runs, he named this record in his name.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Rajasthan Royals by 10 wickets. Rajasthan had scored 177 for 9 wickets in 20 overs in the first innings. In response, Royal Challengers Bangalore easily chased down the target without losing any wickets in just 16.3 overs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli has created history against Rajasthan Royals in the 16th match of IPL 2021 by becoming the first batsman to score 6000 runs in IPL. He achieved this feat in the 188th innings of his IPL career.

Kohli completed his 6000 runs in the IPL by scoring a half-century against the Rajasthan Royals. He made this record after hitting a boundary to Chris Morris. Before this match, Kohli's run tally was at 5,946 runs as soon as he reached the score of 54 runs, he named this record in his name.

Kohli now has 6021 runs in 196 matches at an average of 38.35 and a strike rate of 130.69 in the IPL. Kohli's highest score in this league is 113 runs. He has so far scored five centuries and 40 half-centuries in the tournament.

Kohli is leading the IPL highest run-getter chart followed by Suresh Raina (5,448), Shikhar Dhawan (5,428) David Warner (5,384) and Rohit Sharma (5,368). Kohli was just 51 runs behind the milestone figure before the match. As soon he hit his 51st run of the innings he became the first batter to do so in the IPL.

Challengers Bangalore defeated Rajasthan Royals by 10 wickets. Rajasthan had scored 177 for 9 wickets in 20 overs in the first innings. In response, Royal Challengers Bangalore easily chased down the target without losing any wickets in just 16.3 overs.

For RCB, Devdutt Padikal and Virat Kohli shared a record opening partnership of 181 runs, this is the biggest partnership for the first wicket in RCB's history. Padikkal scored an unbeaten 101 off 52 balls.
At the same time, Virat Kohli played an innings of 72 runs in 47 balls.