Century Of Fifties For Virat Kohli In T20 Cricket
Virat Kohli is an Indian cricket star, and he made history by making 100 fifties in T20 cricket. He achieved this milestone in 405 T20 matches. He is the first Asian and second in the world to make this record in T20 cricket. The first spot in the list of making most fifties in T20 cricket is of David Warner, who made 108 fifties in 400 T20 matches.
The 36-year-old right-handed batter Virat Kohli achieved this milestone in his 405th T20 match against Rajistan Royals (RR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) season 2025 while playing for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). He scored 62 runs in 45 balls with 4 fours and 2 sixes in this match. RCB won this match against RR with 9 wickets while chasing 174 runs on Sunday, 13 April 2025.
Virat Kohli is well known as a run machine in all formats of cricket as he scored 13134 runs with a strike rate of 134.36 in his T20 career with 9 centuries. In this way, Virat Kohli became the first Indian batter to make 13000 runs in this format of cricket. He also has the record of having most player of the series awards in T20 Internationals. He is the first to make most fifties (38) in 125 matches in his T20I career before retiring after the T20 World Cup 2024. Babar Azam has his name on the second number in the list of most fifties in T20I cricket with 36 fifties.