Bengaluru, March 27: The highly anticipated 19th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2026) kicks off this Saturday with a match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. In this match, RCB’s star batsman Virat Kohli needs just 29 runs to surpass Pakistani all-rounder Shoaib Malik in the all-time T20 runs leaderboard.
Since 2007, Kohli has played a total of 414 matches for India, RCB, and his domestic team in Delhi, scoring 13,543 runs in 397 innings, including 9 centuries and 105 half-centuries. Currently, he ranks seventh among the highest run-scorers in T20 cricket across international, league, and domestic formats.
If Kohli manages to score 29 runs against SRH, his total T20 runs will rise to 13,572, placing him sixth on the all-time list, ahead of Malik. Shoaib Malik has accumulated 13,571 runs from 515 innings in 557 matches played between 2005 and 2025, including 83 half-centuries.
The top five run-scorers in T20 cricket are Chris Gayle (14,562 runs), Kieron Pollard (14,482 runs), Alex Hales (14,449 runs), David Warner (14,028 runs), and Jos Buttler. While Gayle has retired, the other four players remain active in T20 cricket. Kohli has also retired from international T20s but continues to play in the IPL. Given his performance in the league, it is highly likely that he could become the top scorer in T20 format by the end of his career.
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