Virat Kohli during a IPL 2025 training session [Source: AP Photos]
Virat Kohli finds himself at the precipice of a huge T20 batting record, previously scaled by only four cricketers in history. The legendary Indian batter is currently gearing himself up for RCB’s next IPL 2025 match as they are scheduled to go up against a Hardik Pandya-led Mumbai Indians unit at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday, April 7.
Kohli has already unleashed 97 runs so far this IPL 2025 season, which included a sizzling 59* in a match-winning cause against defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders in the opening match on March 22.
Virat Kohli just 17 away from scaling mount 13k
Virat Kohli has so far racked up 12,983 runs in T20 cricket from 385 innings spanning 405 matches. One of the leading run-getters in the history of the format, Kohli needs just 17 more runs to become only the fifth cricketer to complete 13,000 runs.
The landmark figure has been previously breached by only four players, which includes one of Virat Kohli’s former RCB teammates. Here’s a full list of the top five leading run-getters in T20 cricket.
T20 cricket’s most successful batters:
Player | Runs | Innings |
Chris Gayle | 14562 | 455 |
Alex Hales | 13610 | 490 |
Shoaib Malik | 13557 | 514 |
Kieron Pollard | 13537 | 617 |
Virat Kohli | 12983 | 385 |
Virat Kohli T20 Stats
Virat Kohli has hauled 12,983 runs in T20 cricket so far from 385 innings at an astonishing batting average of 41.47. One of the leading run-getters in the history of the game, Kohli amassed 4,188 of those runs in T20 internationals for Team India at a staggering average of 48.69. The cricketer announced his retirement from international T20s after lifting the T20 World Cup in the West Indies last year.
Virat Kohli is also the leading run-accumulator in the history of IPL with 8,101 runs from just 247 innings, accruing eight hundreds and 56 half-centuries in the process.