IPL 2023: Virat Kohli equals this record of Chris Gayle with a century innings

Based on the century innings of former captain Virat Kohli (100), Royal Challengers Bangalore kept alive their hopes of reaching the playoffs in IPL 2023 by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday.

Virat Kohli has equaled former West Indies stormy batsman Chris Gayle's record of scoring most centuries in IPL with a century innings. Virat Kohli scored his sixth century in IPL on Thursday. Earlier, Gayle has also scored the same number of centuries in this tournament.

Virat Kohli scored 100 off 63 balls against Hyderabad. With this inning, Virat Kohli also completed 500 runs in IPL 2023. Virat Kohli's IPL career now has 7162 runs in 236 matches. He has six centuries and fifty half-centuries in IPL. While Chris Gayle has scored 4965 runs in 142 IPL matches. He has scored six centuries and 31 half-centuries.

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