Virat Kohli creates history, breaks Babar Azam`s record

Virat Kohli is playing for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2025, and on Thursday (April 24) he top-scored for the Bengaluru-based franchise against Rajasthan Royals in the match currently underway at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, reports news18.

Kohli opened the innings for the Rajat Patidar-led side and with the help of eight fours and two sixes, scored 70 runs from 42 balls. The half-century on Thursday was Kohli’s fifth 50+ score in IPL 2025, and his 70-run knock also helped him rise to second position in the list of leading run scorers (392 runs).

The second fifty in a row also helped Kohli break former Pakistan’s all-format captain Babar Azam’s world record of most 50-plus scores while batting first in T20s.

Babar, who is playing for Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2025 these days, has scored 61 fifty-plus scores in T20s while batting first, whereas the half-century against RR in Bengaluru was Kohli’s 62nd fifty-plus score while batting first in the 20-over format of the game._Agencies.