Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis Equal ‘All-time IPL Record’ As Pair For RCB

The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) opening duo of Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis on Sunday turned the pair with the joint-highest partnership runs in a single season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). They reached this milestone throughout their aspect’s IPL 2023 match in opposition to Gujarat Titans (GT) on Sunday at Bengaluru. The duo continued their constant run in IPL 2023, placing up a stand of 67 runs for the primary wicket earlier than skipper Faf Du Plessis was dismissed by Noor Ahmed for 28 runs.

With this, the duo’s run tally as a gap duo soared to 939 runs this season, the joint-most by any pair, not to mention a gap pair within the historical past of this league. They have three centuries and 5 half-century stands this season.

The RCB duo of Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers additionally had 939 runs as a pair within the 2016 version of the IPL.

Besides this, in IPL 2019 for Sunrisers Hyderabad, David Warner and Jonny Bairstow had 791 as a pair. They have been instrumental in SRH’s success within the workforce’s peak years.

CSK’s Faf Du Plessis (now enjoying for RCB) and Ruturaj Gaikwad additionally had 756 runs as a pair within the 2021 season of the IPL for the four-time champions.

Kohli-Faf additionally maintain the report for many 50-run-plus partnerships in a single IPL season. They have a complete of eight such partnerships this season, together with three century and 5 half-century stands. They outdid the pair of Virat and De Villiers, who had seven fifty-run-plus stands in IPL 2016.

They additionally reached the milestone of scoring greater than 1000 runs as a gap stand in IPL historical past. They added a complete of 318 runs in 12 innings as a pair within the 2022 season, together with two fifty and one century partnerships.