Rajat Patidar is leading Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2026 and on Sunday (May 31), during the final of this year’s IPL, he entered his name in the history books by becoming the second Indian cricketer after Virat Kohli to score 500 runs in a single edition of the IPL for RCB.
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The right-handed batter from Madhya Pradesh, who led RCB to their maiden IPL title in 2025, needed 14 runs in the final against Gujarat Titans to take his tally to 500 runs in IPL 2026, and he needed just 12 balls to reach the milestone.
Kohli has scored more than 500 runs in an IPL season for RCB nine times so far.
Most runs by Indian batters in an IPL season for RCB
| PLAYER | MATCHES | RUNS | YEAR |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 973 | 2016 |
| Virat Kohli | 15 | 741 | 2024 |
| Virat Kohli | 15 | 657 | 2025 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 639 | 2023 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 638* | 2026 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 634 | 2013 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 557 | 2011 |
| Virat Kohli | 14 | 530 | 2018 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 505 | 2015 |
| Rajat Patidar | 16 | 501* | 2026 |
Rajat is overall the seventh player after Virat
Kohli, Jacques Kallis, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Glenn Maxwell and Faf du Plessis to score 500 or more runs in a single edition of the IPL for RCB.
The record for scoring the most runs in a single edition of the IPL is held by Virat Kohli. In the 2016 edition of the IPL, Kohli played 16 matches and amassed a total of 973 runs. He slammed four centuries and seven half-centuries for the Bengaluru-based franchise that season and won the Orange Cap.
Most runs in an IPL season for RCB
| PLAYER | MATCHES | RUNS | YEAR |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 973 | 2016 |
| Virat Kohli | 15 | 741 | 2024 |
| Chris Gayle | 15 | 733 | 2012 |
| Faf du Plessis | 14 | 730 | 2023 |
| Chris Gayle | 16 | 708 | 2013 |
| AB de Villiers | 16 | 687 | 2016 |
| Virat Kohli | 15 | 657 | 2025 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 639 | 2023 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 638* | 2026 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 634 | 2013 |
| Chris Gayle | 12 | 608 | 2011 |
| Jacques Kallis | 16 | 572 | 2010 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 557 | 2011 |
| Virat Kohli | 14 | 530 | 2018 |
| AB de Villiers | 16 | 513 | 2015 |
| Glenn Maxwell | 15 | 513 | 2021 |
| Virat Kohli | 16 | 505 | 2015 |
| Rajat Patidar | 16 | 501* | 2026 |
Patidar is the third RCB captain to score 500-plus runs in an IPL season. Before him, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis (in 2023) had also scored more than 500 runs in a single edition of the Indian Premier League as captains of Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Patidar, who led RCB to their maiden IPL title in 2025, will become only the third captain in IPL history to win back-to-back titles if RCB defeat GT in the ongoing match.
