Virat Kohli, T20 World Cup 2022 | Virat Kohli breaks Chris Gayle’s record, just one step away from this record in T20 World Cup, can become World Cup’s Alexander in the next match

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Virat Kohli’s bat spoke fiercely in the match played against the Netherlands in Sydney today. In the IND vs NED T20 World Cup, 2022, Virat Kohli scored 62 runs in 46 balls and was not out. In his first match of India in this latest World Cup, after an unbeaten innings of 82 runs against Pakistan (Pakistan vs Virat Kohli, IND vs PAK T20 World Cup, 2022), he scored a half-century in the second consecutive match and remained not out. .
With an unbeaten 62 against the Netherlands, ‘King Kohli’ overtook the second-ranked West Indies’ explosive batsman Chris Gayle in the matter of scoring the most runs in the T20 World Cup. And himself sat in second place.

Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka, who scored 1016 runs in the T20 World Cup in his international career, is at number one in terms of scoring the most runs in the T20 World Cup. Now Virat has to score only 28 runs to cross this figure. Virat Kohli will reach the top after scoring 28 runs.
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Significantly, Virat Kohli has once again caught his form. His bat continues to roar after a scintillating century in the Asia Cup T20I-2022. The history of ICC T20 World Cup shows that former Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene has scored 1016 runs in 31 innings of T20 World Cup, which no one has been able to break so far. They are on the surface top of this figure.
But, there is also a fact that Virat Kohli has scored 989 runs in just 21 innings and has reached number two today, leaving behind Chris Gayle. Chris Gayle scored a total of 965 runs in the T20 World Cup in his career. After today’s innings of 62 runs, Chris Gayle has slipped from the second number to the third position.