Abu Dhabi, Oct 10 (IANS) : Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain on Saturday finished 6,000 runs for his team– in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and also the now obsolete Champions League T20 (CLT20)– as well as additionally racked up the highest possible score by a captain against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in 13 IPL seasons, as he scored an unbeaten 90 here.When Kohli
took a single off left-arm rewriter Ravindra Jadeja to get to 31 in the 14th over, he completed an accumulation of 6,000 runs, racked up in the IPL as well as the CLT20, at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
He 90 not out came off 52 balls.It contained 28 singles, 11 2s, 4 limits, as well as 4 sixes.
The India captain played only five dot balls.“Did not play a single dot in the last 25 balls,” tweeted statistician Rajneesh Gupta.His other tweet read: “The highest rating by a captain versus #CSK in #IPL.”
Interestingly, in Saturday’s double header three of the four captains involved half-centuries– captain Dinesh Karthik racked up 58 in Kolkata Knight Riders’ two-run win over Kings XI Punjab, despite the losing team’s in-form captain KL Rahul racking up 74.
The only captain in action on Saturday not to have actually scored a half-century was Mahendra Singh Dhoni, that 10 off 6 balls, consisting of a limit.
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