In the 35th match of the 12th season of IPL 2019 Indian T20 league. It was Virat's 5th century of the T20 league. Virat completed his century in just 57 balls with 9 fours and 4 sixes.
Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli may have not won an Indian Premier League title yet but he is arguably the most consistent the batsman in the Twenty20 league ever since its inception in 2008.
With 5326 runs, Virat Kohli is right on top of the list of batsmen with most runs in IPL. On Friday, at the Eden Gardens, Kohli smashed his fifth IPL hundred to help Royal Challengers Bangalore clinch only their second win of IPL 2019.
The match-winning 100 that came in just 58 balls is also Virat Kohli's first since 2016 IPL wherein the RCB captain smashed quite a few batting records. Kohli had scored four centuries in the said edition of the cash-rich league in which he single-handedly took RCB to the final.
To put things into perspective, Virat Kohli has more centuries as captain (five) than the number of hundreds all other captains have managed (four) so far in IPL. Only four batsmen have scored centuries while leading IPL teams in the past.
Sachin Tendulkar scored a 66-ball 100 for Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium as captain against Kochi Tuskers Kerala. Virender Sehwag had smashed a match-winning 119 from 56 balls for Delhi Daredevils (Capitals) as captain against Deccan Chargers in the same edition of IPL.
Meanwhile, Australia great Adam Gilchrist, as Kings XI Punjab had hit 106 off just 55 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Dharamsala in 2011.
David Warner joined the elite list of captains with IPL hundreds in 2017 when he took Kolkata Knight Riders to the cleaners with a 59-ball 126.
