Virat Kohli Breaks David Warner's All-Time Record For Most 50s In IPL History

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 00:20 IST

Virat Kohli present holds the grounds for astir half-centuries successful IPL history, scoring his 63rd against Lucknow Super Giants, surpassing David Warner's 62.

Virat Kohli present has the astir 50s successful IPL (Picture credit: BCCI)

Virat Kohli present has the astir half-centuries successful the past of the Indian Premier League. The right-hander scored his 63rd half-century against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) successful Tuesday’s IPL 2025 clash astatine the Ekana Stadium — a sturdy 54 (30) — to spell past David Warner’s grounds of 62 fifties successful the tournament.

He’d person preferred scoring a period to assistance his team. However, helium hardly enactment a ft incorrect during the innings, hitting 10 boundaries successful his 30 balls with a strike-rate of 180, contempt wickets falling astatine the different extremity aft the 5th over. Kohli present has 8 centuries and 63 fifties from 257 innings successful the IPL, portion the erstwhile Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) skipper David Warner has 4 tons and 62 half-centuries from 184 innings.

As it turned out, Kohli’s sound came successful a winning cause. When helium got out, RCB were astatine 123/4 successful 11.2 overs.

Stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma hammered a sensational unbeaten 85 and Mayank Agarwal remained not-out astatine 41 to assistance RCB pursuit their third-highest tally chase. Jitesh’s sound came disconnected 33 balls arsenic they reached 230/4 successful 18.4 overs to seal 2nd presumption successful the points array with 19 points.

With this victory, RCB acceptable up a Qualifier 1 clash with Punjab Kings portion Gujarat Titans volition conscionable Mumbai Indians successful the Eliminator match.

RCB came retired firing connected each cylinders with Phil Salt, who struck boundaries disconnected Shahbaz Ahmed and Digvesh Rathi, blasting 30 disconnected 19 balls, hitting six fours successful the process arsenic they reached 50 without hitting a six. Salt was the archetypal to get out, caught astatine screen disconnected Impact Substitute Akash Singh aft helium had survived an effort a fewer balls earlier.

Rajat Patidar, coming successful arsenic an Impact Sub, did not enactment astatine the crease for agelong and was retired for 14 (7 balls) to Will O’Rourke. Liam Livingstone failed to tickle the scorers arsenic helium fell for a first-ball duck, and RCB slumped to 90/3. Just erstwhile Kohli was looking bully for a century, Kohli was retired to a tame dismissal, lofting an casual drawback to Ayush Badoni disconnected Avesh Khan.

Virat Kohli and Mayank Agarwal took the people past 100 earlier Kohli fell, and it looked similar the RCB innings would autumn isolated astatine 123/4, with RCB needing 90 runs successful 7 overs. But stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma produced a superb show of power-hitting, reaching his half-century successful 22 balls arsenic they launched a superb pursuit and propelled their squad to a morale-boosting victory.

With Agarwal playing an capable foil, Jitesh Sharma went for his shots, hitting fours and sixes astatine will, launching a blitzkrieg that near the LSG players stunned.

With 28 needed disconnected 18 balls, the shot was changed and Jitesh Sharma saw his accidental and changed the complexion of the lucifer successful the abstraction of six balls. He blasted 21 runs disconnected Will O’Rourke, hitting 2 fours and 2 large sixes, disconnected successive balls, to propulsion RCB clear.

The RCB skipper clinched triumph with a six disconnected Ayush Badoni, their 107-run concern betwixt Jitesh Sharma and Mayank Agarwal helping them publication the third-biggest palmy pursuit successful the past of the IPL and propelled RCB to the 2nd spot successful the standings.

(With IANS Inputs)

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