Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) triumphed over Gujarat Titans (GT) , led by Virat Kohli’s exceptional 81 runs,. Kohli managed to create two massive feats.
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) defeated Gujarat Titans (GT) by 5 wickets in the 34th match of the IPL 2026 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. While GT smashed 205, RCB chased it down quite comfortably in the end. THe key architecht with the bat for RCB was their star man Virat Kohli. The superstar batter registered his highest score yet in the IPL 2026, when he smashed 81. During this brilliant innings, Kohli went on to become the first player ever to achieve two fantastic feats.
Virat Kohli slammed 81 runs from 44 balls in an innings studded with 8 fours and 4 massive sixes. Kohli now has 303 sixes in his IPL career. He has played all 19 seasons in the IPL for RCB, and hence became the first player in history to slam 300 sixes for one franchise in the IPL.
Overall, Virat Kohli became the third batter after Chris Gayle (357) and Rohit Sharma (309) to hit 300 sixes in the history of the IPL.
Virat Kohli Becomes First Player To Score 10,000 T20 Runs In A Country
Virat Kohli has also scored 10,000 runs in India in all T20s, for both club, country and his domestic team i.e Delhi. He becomes the first batter in history to slam 10,000 runs in the shortest format of the game in a single country.
Here are the batters with the most runs in a single country in T20s:
Virat Kohli- 10,000 (India)
Rohit Sharma- 8563 (India)
Shikhar Dhawan- 7626 (India)
James Vince- 7492 (England)
Sanju Samson- 7254 (India)
RCB Defeat GT By 5 Wickets
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) defeated Gujarat Titans (GT) by five wickets as they raced to their fifth win of the IPL 2026, and climbed to the second spot of the points table.
The GT openers Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill got off to a slowish start. However, they soon picked up some serious momentum. For the first wicket, the duo put on 128 runs, thus registering their 8th 100+ run stand in the IPL. Shubman Gill got out for 32, but Sudharsan continued the onslaught. He went on to slam his third century in the IPL, thus becoming the second GT batter after Shubman Gill to score a century.
However, after the wicket of Sudharsan for 100 runs, the run rate slowed down for GT, as the RCB bowlers got a massive grip on the batters, and boundaries dried up. However, the GT debutant Jason Holder played a blinder at the end, scoring 23 from 10 runs, that powered GT to 205.
RCB got off to a shaky start, as they lost their first wicket with 24 runs on the board in the form of Jacob Bethell. After that, it was RCB all the way, as Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal got all guns blazing. The duo put on 117 for the second wicket. Padikkal went on to score 55 before getting out. However, it was Virat Kohli who shone the brightest as he smashed 81 runs.
