Virat at his best!

It was a mixed bag of a night for star Royal Challengers Bengaluru RCB and India batter Virat Kohli as he smashed his eighth Indian Premier League IPL century in a losing effort against Rajasthan Royals at Jaipurs Sawai Mansingh Stadium breaking a lot of records for good and bad reasonsVirat was at his fighting best cracking an unbeaten 110 in 72 balls with 12 fours and four sixes His runs came at a strike rate of 15694 During his knock Virat touched some new heights as a T20 batter continuing to prove his mettle ahead of this years ICC T20 World Cup But on the other hand the relatively slow nature of his knock and poor performances of the RCB batting also attracted some unfortunate recordsTouches new high as RCB batterVirat is the first batter to score 7500 IPL runs and 8000 T20 runs for RCB In 242 matches Virat has scored 7579 runs at an average of 3827 and a strike rate of over 130 He has scored eight centuries and 52 fifties with the best score of 113 In 257 matches for RCB Virat has scored 8003 runs at an average of 3829 and a strike rate of 13154 with eight centuries and 54 fifties His best score is 113This also includes 15 matches played for the franchise in nowdefunct Champions League T20 scoring 484 runs at an average of 2854 and a strike rate of over 15035 with two fifties His best score is 84Overtakes David Warner in T20 runscoring chartsVirat has overtaken David Warner the Australian star opener to become fifthhighest rungetter in T20 cricket In 381 matches Virat has made 12310 runs at an average of 4187 with a strike rate of over 133 with nine centuries and 93 fifties His best score is 122 Warner on the other hand has 12213 runs at an average of 3712 in 374 matches with eight centuries and 102 fiftiesSurpasses global T20 stars to climb up the shortformat ladderWith nine centuries Virat is the thirdhighest centurymaker in T20 cricket With this century he has overtaken Australian stars David Warner Michael Klinger and Aaron Finch to reach the third spot Only Pakistans Babar Azam 11 tons and West Indies legend Chris Gayle 22 tons have more centuries than himAlso ReadHardik blameless Rohit all class Sourav GangulySurpasses MS Dhoni in IPL sixscoring chartsAfter smashing four sixes last night Virats six tally in IPL is now 246 four more than Dhoni Now he is the fourthhighest sixhitter in IPL history with Chris Gayle 357 AB de Villiers 261 and Rohit Sharma 251 above him in the listJaipur treats Virat goodBefore this century in eight matches Virat has played at this venue in the IPL he had scored just 149 runs at an average of 2129 and a poor strike rate of just over 94 His best score here was 39 and no fifties and hundreds were made by Virat here Out of all venues where hes batted at least eight innings in his IPL career he had the worst average in Jaipur RR had managed to keep Virats recordbreaking ways in check but he finally came good at this venue with a centuryMost IPL centuries in losing causeThree of Virats eight IPL tons have come in a losing cause making him the player with the most IPL tons in a losing cause With his knock he surpassed RR skipper Sanju Samson and former Punjab Kings batter Hashim AmlaJoint slowest IPL centuryVirats century came in 67 balls which is the joint slowest century in the history of the cashrich league tied with Manish Pandeys 67ball hundred against Deccan Chargers back in IPL 2009 Pandey went on to make 114 in that match while playing for RCBRCBs One Man ArmyThis year Virat has contributed 38 per cent of RCB runs by himself He has the Orange Cap for most runs around his head scoring 316 runs in five innings at an average of 10533 with a century and two fifties His runs have come at a strike rate of over 146Interestingly skipper Faf Du Plessis Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green the franchises three big overseas batters have scored just 209 runs together in these five matches without even a single halfcentury Taking into account the runs of Rajat Patidar Mahipal Lomror Dinesh Karthik and other recognised batters the whole RCB batting lineup except Virat has scored 418 runs making Virats performance a massive oneman carry job