Virat Kohli fastest fifties: Before IPL 2026, King Kohli had scored a fifty in 26 balls in 2018 against Delhi Daredevils (now capital).Kohli play a vital role in run chase in the IPL 2026 final. Virat Kohli played an impressing inning of 75 not out in the IPL 2026 final. Royal Challengers Bangalore win their second consecutive IPL title by dominating the Gujrat Titian . GT put 156 runs on the board with Washington Sundar batting, Kohli shows his explosive batting when he only deals with sixes and fours, reaching fifty in just 25 balls. This was his fastest fifty in IPL history.
Lets see what are other occasion when King Kohli batted explosive and scored fastest fifties in IPL.
Top 5 fastest fifties in IPL by Virat Kohli
Vs Kings XI Punjab and CSK (2016,2013) 28 Balls
Fastest fifties by Virat Kohli in IPL 2016: Virat Kohli was monster in IPL 2016 ,he didn’t won the trophy but won many fans heart with his class and destructive batting. Batting first , the RCB has scored a scored of 211 in 15 overs against Kings XI Punjab. Virat has smashed a fifty in this match in just 28 balls. He just dealing with fours and sixes as Punjab bowler was completely off in this match. Kohli has smashed a half centuries in just 28 balls while Kohli hunger for runs not stopped there. Kohli has scored century in this match in just 50 balls. It was counted Virat Kohli fastest fifties till 2018 .
Even in 2013, Virat Kohli has scored a fastest fifty in 28 balls against Thala CSK. But 2016 fifties is counted his best because despite injury in his thumb Kohli keeps smashing bowlers .
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Vs LSG 2025 (27 Balls)
Fastest fifties by Virat Kohli against LSG: Chasing the big total of 228 runs , as the names fans called him King Kohli , he started hitting the balls in every part of the ground. Virat Kohli and Phil Salt put a show ,but despite Kohli aggressive batting the RCB batsmen on other side were struggling. Virat Kohli smashed his fastest half fifty against the LSG in just 27 balls. Despite getting a good started ,Kohli has hit 10 boundaries which include 10 fours . But Kohli didn’t not covert the start he gets on big score.
But ,Virat Kohli fastest fifty cannot help RCB to climb the momentum score of 228 runs.
Vs RR 2018 (26 Balls)
Virat Kohli fastest fifties: Virat Kohli has scored a half century in just 26 balls against the RR in 2018. Virat Kohli had played a inning of 57 in just 30 balls before getting out by RR bowlers. Even RCB had lose this match ,but Kohli has proof against why he called King Kohli. Chasing a score of 218 , RCB managed to scored only 198 runs on the board. RR managed to win this match by 19 runs.
Vs Delhi Daredevils 2018(now Capitals)-26 Balls
Virat Kohli fifties in IPL: Virat has smashed his joint fastest fifty in IPL 2018. Chasing a total of 181 runs on board by DD. Virat Kohli started smashing fours and sixes all over the ground. RCB loosed quick opening pair pair but AB De Villers and Kohli puts a tremendous show on the ground with their batting. Kohli had reached his fifty in just 26 balls. He scored 70 runs out of 40 balls before getting out by Amit Mishra .
This inning include 7 fours and 2 sixes with strike rate of 175.00 . While on the other hand, AB just finished the work which Virat Kohli left unfinished and leads RCB way to victor.
Vs GT 2026(25 Balls)
Virat Kohli -Top 5 fastest fifties in IPL: The GT put a fighting total of 156 runs for RCB to won their back to back second IPL title. RCB had good batting line up, but GT bowlers were know to take crucial breakthrough. Venkatesh Iyer and Virat Kohli started the innings with aggressive approach and didn’t let GT bowlers to settle down. While Kohli were playing the shot around the every part of the ground.
Virat Kohli had scored fifty in just 25 balls. Kohli didn’t leave the work unfinished and hatted the wining runs with his bat. He scored 75 runs in just 42 balls which include 9 fours and 3 sixes with strike rate of 178.00.
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