IPL 2016, Stats: Kohli's brilliant hundred ends up in a losing cause as Lions defeat RCB by 6 wickets

In the first match of the Sunday's Indian Premier League (IPL) doubleheader, Virat Kohli, arguably, India's best batsman, brought up a great tribute to India's Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar, who turned 43. Kohli's brilliant form in 2016 continued as he went onto score his first T20 hundred after winning the toss for the first time in this IPL.

However, the target set by the Royal Challengers Bangalore was not quite enough as the Gujarat Lions openers fired early on and helped make the chase a fairly comfortable one in the end.

Here are the major stats from the game:

1 – Virat Kohli won the toss for the first time in this IPL.

1 – Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers are now the first pair to have five consecutive 50-plus partnerships in the IPL.

1 – Virat Kohli scored his first ever T20 century, in his 193rd match. His previous highest was 99.

1 – KL Rahul scored his maiden T20 fifty. His previous highest was 46.

1 – Virat Kohli's century is the only one that included just one or no sixes.

4 – Royal Challengers Bangalore have had four century stands in the IPL. All the other teams combined have only three century stands.

4 – Virat Kohli became the fourth captain in the IPL to score a century. Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Adam Gilchrist are the other three captains to have achieved the feat.

11 – Virat Kohli has scored 11 fifties in the 17 T20 matches he has played in 2016.

11 – This was the 11th time that the Royal Challengers Bangalore have failed to defend a total of 170-plus. No other team has done it more than seven times.

12 – Virat Kohli has been involved in the joint-most number of century partnership stands in IPL, along with Chris Gayle.

25 – Kane Richardson conceded 25 runs in the 6th over of the match. This was the third highest number of runs conceded in the IPL this season.

43 – Virat Kohli scored his 43rd knock of 50-plus in T20s, on Sachin Tendulkar's 43rd birthday.

66.53 – The average partnership between AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli since the start of 2014. In 17 partnerships, they have 4 century stands.

72 – The number of runs that Gujarat Lions scored in the powerplay. This is the highest for any team in this IPL so far.

110.22 – Virat Kohli's batting average in T20s in 2016. He has scored 992 runs in 17 innings.

181 – Virat Kohli took 181 T20 innings to score his first T20 hundred. Of all people who have hit T20 hundreds, Kohli has taken the most number of innings.