{"id":18021,"date":"2026-05-22T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/22\/virat-kohli-scripts-all-time-t20-record-leaves-babar-azam-and-chris-gayle-behind-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:37:07","slug":"virat-kohli-scripts-all-time-t20-record-leaves-babar-azam-and-chris-gayle-behind-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=18021","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli scripts all-time T20 record, leaves Babar Azam and Chris Gayle behind | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131266129,imgsize-45336,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/virat-kohli-2205-ipl.jpg\" alt=\"Virat Kohli scripts all-time T20 record, leaves Babar Azam and Chris Gayle behind\" title=\"Virat Kohli (BCCI\/IPL Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Virat Kohli (BCCI\/IPL Photo)\">Virat Kohli (BCCI\/IPL Photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: With already a mountain of records to his name, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/virat-kohli\/3993\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Virat Kohli<\/a> added yet another milestone to his glittering career during the IPL 2026 clash between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Saturday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Kohli became the batter involved in the most 50-plus partnerships in men\u2019s T20 cricket history. The RCB superstar achieved the feat after stitching together another fifty-plus opening stand with Venkatesh Iyer against SRH.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The partnership once again gave RCB a flying start before Venkatesh fell for a blazing 44 off just 19 balls, dismissed by Eshan Malinga.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>With this stand, Kohli took his tally to 211 fifty-plus partnerships in men\u2019s T20s \u2014 the highest ever. <!-- -->He went past England batter Alex Hales, who sits second with 210 such stands. Former David Warner opener occupies third place with 200, followed by Babar Azam with 196 and T20 legend Chris Gayle with 191.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"16\">\n<ul>\n<li>Batters involved in most 50-plus stands in Men\u2019s T20s<\/li>\n<li>211* \u2014 Virat Kohli<\/li>\n<li>210 \u2014 Alex Hales<\/li>\n<li>200 \u2014 David Warner<\/li>\n<li>196 \u2014 Babar Azam<\/li>\n<li>191 \u2014 Chris Gayle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>Earlier in the evening, Sunrisers Hyderabad piled up a mammoth 255\/4 against RCB, riding on explosive knocks from Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen in front of a packed Hyderabad crowd.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>Kishan (79) top-scored for Sunrisers Hyderabad. SRH were also well served by half-centuries from Abhishek (56) and Klaasen (51).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Kishan and Klaasen put on 113 runs for the third wicket in what turned out to be a successful outing for the SRH batters.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>For RCB, Rasikh Salam Dar was pick among the bowlers taking 2\/52.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/virat-kohli-scripts-all-time-t20-record-leaves-babar-azam-and-chris-gayle-behind\/articleshow\/131266090.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli (BCCI\/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: With already a mountain of records to his name, Virat Kohli added yet another milestone to his glittering career during the IPL 2026 clash between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Saturday.Kohli became the batter involved in the most 50-plus partnerships in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}