Leaders Online Desk: Eliminator 1 of IPL 2024 will be played today (22nd) at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. In which Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals will face each other. The team that wins this match will advance to Qualifier-2. RCB's star batsman Virat Kohli has a chance to create a new record in this match. With 29 runs from his bat, he will become the first batsman to score 8000 runs in IPL.
The team that wins today's match will face Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers Hyderabad for Eliminator 2. So the losing team in Eliminator 1 will have to wrap up.
Kohli will create history!
In fact, Virat Kohli has scored 7971 runs in his IPL career so far. If this batsman succeeds in scoring 29 runs against Rajasthan Royals, he will reach the mark of 8 thousand runs. Thus, Kohli will become the first batsman in the history of IPL to complete 8000 runs.
Kohli's bat has failed in this IPL season. He has so far scored 708 runs in 14 matches at an average of 64.36 and a strike rate of 155.60. During this time he has hit 59 fours and 37 sixes. Also, the batsman is at the top of the Orange Cap race.
Kohli's Career
Kohli has been playing since the first season of IPL. Thus he is playing the 17th season of IPL. During this time he has played 251 matches so far. In which this experienced batsman has scored 7971 runs at an average of 38.69 and a strike rate of 131.95. He has scored 8 centuries and has hit 55 fifties. However, till now Kohli has not been able to win the IPL title for Royal Challengers Bangalore.