The 18th season of the IPL is going on and like the last several seasons, former captain and star batsman Virat Kohli remains the identity of Royal Challengers Bangalore once again. This is Virat’s 18th consecutive season in IPL and has been a part of Bengaluru like every time. His name is recorded dozens of records for Bangalore, but by going in the 18th season, now the name of Devdutt Padikkal has also been added to him in a special list.
In the IPL 2025 match against Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore’s young batsman Devdutt Padikkal played a strong innings and brought the team to victory. Padikal’s bat scored 40 runs in 28 balls and returned after winning the team. His innings included 5 fours and 1 six. He came out of his bat itself, which brought the team beyond victory.
Only other Indians who scored 1000 runs
This was another small but important innings in this season of Padikal. With this innings, Padikkal not only won Bengaluru, but also got his name registered forever in the history of RCB. It is such that the dignity became the second Indian batsman to score 1000 runs in the history of 18 years of this team. Before that, this Kamal Virat Kohli had done many season ago. Since then, no Indian batsman could score 1000 runs for Bengaluru.
Left -handed batsman Padikkal made his debut for Bengaluru in the 2020 season. After playing 2 seasons for this team, he was released and spent the next 3 seasons in Rajasthan and Lucknow. This season, Padikal has returned to Bengaluru and has now completed 1000 runs. The name of the deed has now been 1003 runs in 35 innings for RCB. Soon the name of the current captain Rajat Patidar will also be added to this list, who are just 15 runs away.
Name of these batsmen also in the list
Talking about the batsmen who have scored the most runs for Bengaluru, Virat is naturally at the top with 8252 runs. The second number is AB de Villiers, who scored 4491 runs. At number three is Chris Gayle and Faf Duplessi on the fourth. Glenn Maxwell and Jack Kallis also completed 1000 runs for the team. But all these players have been foreigners. Now after Kohli, the name of the dignity has been added to this list as another Indian.