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    Home / News / Sports News / Virat Kohli becomes second Indian batter with 400 T20 sixes
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    Virat Kohli becomes second Indian batter with 400 T20 sixes
    Kohli hammered 92 versus Punjab (Photo credit: X/@IPL)

    Virat Kohli becomes second Indian batter with 400 T20 sixes

    By Rajdeep Saha
    May 09, 2024
    10:16 pm

    What's the story

    Virat Kohli was at his best against Punjab Kings in Match 58 of the Indian Premier League 2024 season on Thursday.

    The 35-year-old dasher scored 92 runs from 47 balls, helping Royal Challengers Bengaluru post 241/7 in Dharamsala.

    Kohli made PBKS pay after being dropped in the first over.

    Kohli, who hit six sixes (4s: 7), has now surpassed 400 T20 maximums. Here's more.

    Record

    Kohli joins Rohit in this illustrious sixes club

    Kohli is just the second Indian batter with 400-plus T20 sixes. Rohit Sharma has smashed 506 sixes so far in his career.

    Playing his 388th T20 match (371 innings), Kohli has raced to 401 sixes.

    As per ESPNcricinfo, he is overall the 20th batter in T20s to smash 400-plus maximums.

    MS Dhoni (334 sixes) is the next best among Indian players.

    Stats

    Dissecting Kohli's T20 numbers

    Kohli has raced to 12,628 T20 runs at 42.09. He owns nine centuries and 96 fifties.

    4,037 of his runs have come for India in T20Is at 51.75. He owns 117 sixes in T20Is.

    In the IPL, Kohli has clobbered 7,897 runs at 38.71 (50s: 55, 100s: 8). He has smashed 264 sixes in the cash-rich league.

    Knock

    Kohli makes PBKS pay with a solid knock

    RCB were 56/2 after the powerplat with Kohli unbeaten on 22 from 14 balls. Notably, Kohli was dropped by Ashutosh Sharma when he was on nought.

    Kohli shared a pivotal 76-run stand alongside Rajat Patidar, whose 55 floored PBKS. After a rain interval, Kohli got to his fifty before he opened up and got useful runs.

    He added 85 runs alongside Cameron Green.

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