In the final league match of IPL 2025, Royal Challengers Bangalore stormed to a dominant win over Lucknow Super Giants. RCB secured second place on the points table.
With this result, they will now be playing in Qualifier 1, where they will take on Punjab Kings on May 29 for a shot at reaching the final. But the night was not just about team standings.
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Virat Kohli once again made headlines - this time by rewriting his own IPL record. The RCB batter scored an explosive 54 off 30 balls and in doing so, set a new mark for the most 50-plus scores in wins in a single IPL season.
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Kohli now has 8 scores of 50 or more in RCB wins this season. He surpassed his own previous best of 7 half-centuries in 2016.
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That 2016 season was already legendary - he finished with four centuries and nearly 1,000 runs, but 2025 has seen a different, more refined version of Kohli.
| Player | 50+ Scores | Season |
| Virat Kohli | 8* | 2025 |
| Virat Kohli | 7 | 2016 |
| David Warner | 7 | 2016 |
| Shubman Gill | 7 | 2023 |
With this, Kohli now holds the outright record, pulling ahead of not just himself but also the likes of David Warner and Shubman Gill.
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Kohli’s knock against LSG was special for more reasons. It was his 63rd IPL half-century, taking him past David Warner’s tally of 62.
He also became the first player to score over 9,000 runs for a single IPL franchise. And in another stat, 2025 became the fifth IPL season where Kohli has scored more than 600 runs - no other batter has done it more than three times.