Basically, Kohli was in red-hot form in the final league match of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) against the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cricket Stadium, Lucknow, on Tuesday, May 27. Opening the innings for RCB along with Phil Salt, Kohli faced a stiff challenge as a huge target of 228 was set in a must-win game. Winning this game was extremely crucial for RCB, so they could finish in the top two and have a good chance of making it to the finals, scheduled for June 3 at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium. Kohli and Salt forged a 61-run partnership in just 34 balls before Salt fell for 30 off 19 deliveries. Kohli scored fifty-plus for the eighth time during this season, racking up 54 from 30 balls. His sizzling start not just helped the RCB cause but also almost shattered a few records. While Kohli was at the crease, he surpassed the 9000-run mark for RCB across formats and became the first-ever cricketer to bag 9000 runs for a single team in the game of T20 cricket. Rohit Sharma stands second, touched nearly 6000 runs for Mumbai Indians, but is 3000 runs behind Kohli. Most Runs For Team In IPL: Player Runs Team Virat Kohli 9030 Royal Challengers Bengaluru Rohit Sharma 6060 Mumbai Indians James Vince 5934 Hamshire Suresh Raina 5529 Chennai Super Kings MS Dhoni 5314 Chennai Super Kings With 8605 IPL runs to his name, Kohli still stands above all to have hit over 6000 runs for one franchise. Birguni runs coincided with the seven for RCB, Kohli is one above all to have played 18 IPL seasons for one team. He also added 424 runs in the now-defunct Champions League T20 for RCB. Kohli had already scored 600 runs before the 2025 IPL, making it the third straight season he had passed the 600-run mark, having done so consecutively in 2023 and 2024. At 36, he is technically the first player in IPL history to record five 600+ run seasons. Also Read | Watch: Digvesh Rathi Tries Mind Games with Kohli, Ends Up Apologising Most 600+ Runs IPL Seasons: Player 600+ Seasons Years Virat Kohli 5 2013, 2016, 2023, 2024,2025 KL Rahul 4 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 Chris Gayle 3 2011, 2012,2013 David Warner 3 2016, 2017, 2019 Kohli has so far scored 602 runs in 13 innings at an average of 60.20 and a staggering strike rate of 147.91. He still has a chance to build up more runs and becoming the only player to cross 600 runs in double back-to-back seasons thrice. Currently, Kohli is the only batter with multiple 700+ run seasons in IPL history. However, Shubman Gill could become the second player to join this elite list.