Virat Kohli passes Chris Gayle for most hundreds in the IPL

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IPL matches with batters in each team scoring a hundred. Heinrich Klaasen and Kohli were the first to do it,

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The first batter to score back-to-back IPL tons was Shikhar Dhawan in 2020, and Jos Buttler did it in 2022.

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198 The target that Titans chased down against RCB,

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Kohli's T20 hundreds - the joint-third highest, behind Chris Gayle (22) and Babar Azam (9).

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