Virat Kohli played a tremendous innings in the finalImage Credit source: PTI
Virat Kohli scored a explosive half-century in the final of IPL 2026. Kohli scored a half-century in just 25 balls in the final played against Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad. Along with this, he also scored his fastest half-century in IPL history. While chasing the target of 156 runs in the final against Gujarat Titans, Kohli did this wonders by hitting an excellent four. In this way, after 8 years, he broke the previous record of his fastest half-century. This is jointly the second fastest half-century in the history of IPL final.
Sunday night 31 May at Narendra Modi Stadium Virat Kohli He did this feat at a time when his team needed it the most. Since the beginning of the number-6 pitch used in this match, it was being discussed that the batsmen would face problems here. This was proved during Gujarat’s innings, when the host team’s batsmen were seen struggling. But as soon as Bengaluru’s innings started, the story looked completely different and a major reason for this was Kohli.
Scored the fastest fifty in the final
Opening with Venkatesh Iyer, Kohli took RCB past 50 runs in just 21 balls. At one time Kohli had scored 34 runs in just 13 balls. But meanwhile, Bengaluru lost 4 wickets one by one, which had some impact on Bengaluru’s run rate and Kohli’s strike rate. But even after this the bat of the ‘King’ of batting continued. Then on the second ball of the 12th over, Kohli hit a four against Arshad Khan at deep midwicket and completed his half-century in 25 balls.
In this way, Kohli broke his previous record of fastest half-century made in 2018. Then Kohli had completed 50 runs in 26 balls against Delhi Capitals. It took 8 years for Kohli to achieve this feat but when he achieved this feat, it came on the most important day. Not only this, Kohli jointly secured the second position in terms of fastest half-century in the IPL final. The fastest fifty in the final came in 24 balls, which was achieved by Suresh Raina, David Warner and Venkatesh Iyer. Apart from Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Chris Gayle also scored fifties in the final in 25 balls each.
Highest score in IPL final
Not only this, as soon as Kohli touched the score of 55 runs, it also became his highest score in the IPL final. Earlier in the 2016 final, Kohli had scored 54 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Not only this, this is the sixth T20 tournament final since 2014 in which Kohli has participated and in this he has touched the 50 mark for the fourth time. Before this final his scores were – 43, 76, 54, 41, 77.
