Virat Kohli Fifties in IPL History: How Many 50s has former RCB Captain Scored in Indian Premier League?

Rishikesh Sharma | 20/04/2023
Virat Kohli Fifties in IPL History: How Many 50s has former RCB Captain Scored in Indian Premier League?

Former Royal Challengers Bangalore‘s captain Virat Kohli scored his 48th Indian Premier League half-century against Punjab Kings in Mohali. Kohli was captaining the side as well because of captain Faf du Plessis‘ injury issues. du Plessis opened the innings with Kohli, but the impact player replaced him while fielding.

Kohli possesses a decent record in Mohali, he was looking in solid from the very first ball. In the second over, he played a brilliant cover drive on Punjab’s spinner Harpreet Brar‘s delivery, which was his first boundary of the match.

However, Kohli played a second-fiddle to du Plessis, who was smashing the bowlers from the other end. On the last ball of the 14th over, Kohli played a brilliant cover drive against pacer Arshdeep Singh to complete his fifty. He got out on the first ball of the 17th over, where Brar took his wicket. Kohli tried to paddle the ball, but wicket-keeper Jitesh Sharma took a brilliant catch.

Virat Kohli Fifties in IPL History

Kohli could not score a single half-century in the inaugural edition of IPL. Interestingly, he scored his initial three half-centuries against Deccan Chargers. He scored four fifties in 2014 and six in 2013. 2016 was the best season for Kohli, where he broke all sorts of records.

It is tough to imagine if someone will be able to replicate what Kohli did in 2016. He scored 973 runs at an astonishing average of 81.08 with the help of seven half-centuries and four centuries.

With his 48th fifty, Kohli is just behind Delhi Capitals’ captain David Warner (58) and Punjab Kings‘ captain Shikhar Dhawan (49) in the list of most IPL half-centuries.

Virat Kohli IPL half-century full list

S No. Opponent  Score Year Venue
1 Deccan Chargers 50 (32) 2009 Cape Town
2 Deccan Chargers 58 (35) 2010 Bengaluru
3 Deccan Chargers 71 (51) 2011 Hyderabad
4 Delhi Daredevils 56 (38) 2011 Delhi
5 Pune Warriors 67 (42) 2011 Bengaluru
6 Chennai Super Kings 70* (44) 2011 Mumbai
7 Chennai Super Kings 57 (46) 2012 Chennai
8 Delhi Daredevils 73* (53) 2012 Delhi
9 Sunrisers Hyderabad 93* (47) 2013 Bengaluru
10 Chennai Super Kings 58 (47) 2013 Chennai
11 Delhi Daredevils 65 (50) 2013 Bengaluru
12 Delhi Daredevils 99 (58) 2013 Delhi
13 Kings XI Punjab 57 (43) 2013 Bengaluru
14 Chennai Super Kings 56* (29) 2013 Bengaluru
15 Sunrisers Hyderabad 67 (41) 2014 Hyderabad
16 Chennai Super Kings 73 (49) 2014 Bengaluru
17 Chennai Super Kings 51 (42) 2015 Bengaluru
18 Rajasthan Royals 62 (46) 2015 Ahmedabad
19 Mumbai Indians 82* (50) 2015 Mumbai
20 Sunrisers Hyderabad 75 (51) 2016 Bengaluru
21 Delhi Daredevils 79 (48) 2016 Bengaluru
22 Rising Pune Supergiants 80 (63) 2016 Pune
23 Kolkata Knight Riders 52 (44) 2016 Bengaluru
24 Kolkata Knight Riders 75* (51) 2016 Kolkata
25 Delhi Daredevils 54* (45) 2016 Raipur
26 Sunrisers Hyderabad 54 (35) 2016 Bengaluru
27 Mumbai Indians 62 (47) 2017 Bengaluru
28 Gujarat Lions 64 (50) 2017 Rajkot
29 Rising Pune Supergiants 55 (48) 2017 Pune
30 Delhi Daredevils 58 (45) 2017 Delhi
31 Rajasthan Royals 57 (30) 2018 Bengaluru
32 Mumbai Indians 92* (62) 2018 Mumbai
33 Kolkata Knight Riders 68* (44) 2018 Bengaluru
34 Delhi Daredevils 70 (40) 2018 Delhi
35 Kolkata Knight Riders 84 (49) 2019 Bengaluru
36 Kings XI Punjab 67 (53) 2019 Mohali
37 Rajasthan Royals 72* (53) 2020 Abu Dhabi
38 Chennai Super Kings 90* (52) 2020 Dubai
39 Chennai Super Kings 50 (43) 2020 Dubai
40 Rajasthan Royals 72* (47) 2021 Mumbai
41 Chennai Super Kings 53 (41) 2021 Sharjah
42 Mumbai Indians 51 (42) 2021 Dubai
43 Gujarat Titans 58 (53) 2022 Mumbai (Brabourne)
44 Gujarat Titans 73 (55) 2022 Mumbai
45 Mumbai Indians 82* (49) 2023 Bengaluru
46 Lucknow Super Giants 61 (44) 2023 Bengaluru
47 Delhi Capitals 50 (34) 2023 Bengaluru
48 Punjab Kings 59 (47) 2023 Mohali
Post Edited By: Rishikesh Sharma
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Rishikesh Sharma

An engineering graduate and an ardent sports fan, Rishikesh Sharma is covering cricket for three years now after not making peace with a corporate life and has written more than 5000 articles. While Sourav Ganguly made him fall in love with the sport, Brendon McCullum and Gautam Gambhir enhanced it. Apart from cricket, Rishikesh is a huge fan of Liverpool FC. When not watching sports, you will find him riding around Jaipur.

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