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Indian batsman Virat Kohli holds the records for the most runs scored (8,004) and the most centuries made (8) in the league. Indian batsman Rohit Sharma and wicket-keeper MS Dhoni are the most successful captains in the league, each winning five titles. Dhoni also holds the record for the most matches played.
[5] [6] It is the most watched Twenty20 tournament and the second-best-paying [a] sporting league globally. [7] [8] [9] IPL was established in 2008 [6] and currently consists of ten teams in ten cities across India. The inaugural IPL season was won by Rajasthan Royals. [10] As of 2024, there have been seventeen seasons of the IPL tournament ...
Sachin Tendulkar scored a century in IPL 2011 for the Mumbai Indians. [7] Virat Kohli is one of only two players to score 4 IPL centuries in a single season. The other is Jos Buttler, who is also one of four players to score IPL centuries in back-to-back innings, the others being Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and Shubman Gill.
Kohli scored the most runs (973) in a single edition of the tournament in the 2016 season. The then IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi said of the initiative, "Cricket is often remembered and recorded as statistics and not by material distinctions. The DLF Indian Premier League will create a distinction for the best performing batsman ...
According to the BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed ₹1,150 crore (US$140 million) to India's GDP. [16] In December 2022, the IPL achieved a valuation of US$10.9 billion, becoming a decacorn and registering a 75% growth in dollar terms since 2020 when it was valued at $6.2 billion, according to a report by the consulting firm D and P ...
The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (often abbreviated as RCB) are a franchise cricket team based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). One of the original eight teams in the IPL, the team has made three final appearances in the IPL, losing all (in 2009 to the Deccan Chargers, in 2011 to the Chennai Super Kings and in 2016 to the Sunrisers Hyderabad).
The record was broken twice in the following ten years, but then stood for almost 30 years before Lord Frederick Beauclerk scored 170 runs in 1806. William Ward scored 278 runs for the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1820 to claim the record, which was the last time that the highest score was made during a match regarded as being first-class.
Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bengaluru) became the first player to score 3000 runs and hit 128 sixes at this venue, most by any batter at a single stadium in IPL, [45] [46] and became the second player to hit 700th four in IPL. [47] He also became the first player to score 9000 runs in India, which was most by any batter in a single country. [48]