TATA IPL 2024: Virat Kohli has been a driving force for the team of Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League history. Since 2008, the King has been a batting maestro for RCB’s batting line up. He has majority of the records for RCB in this cash-rich league tournament.
But somehow, the Challengers have failed to challenge the other teams and that is why, they haven't won a single IPL trophy still. This year, the team of Bangalore would love to end their trophyless seasons in TATA IPL 2024.
Kohli missed the red ball series against England and he will be back to action from the first game of the TATA IPL 2024 season. That match will be played at MA Chidambaram in Chennai and the encounter is between a team that has won 5 IPL titles, Chennai Super Kings Vs the team that is yet to win a trophy in this tournament, Royal Challengers Bangalore.
This epic clash between CSK Vs RCB will be played on Friday, 22nd March 2024. Before the first match of the TATA IPL 2024 starts, in this segment today, we shall bring the batting and captaincy records of the King, Virat Kohli in Indian Premier League -
Virat Kohli has been a permanent orange cap holder of this cash-rich league tournament. The King has scored the most runs in this competition till now. His tally of scoring 7263 runs is the most so far and still many more runs will come for him.
VK made his debut in IPL in the first season of 2008 against KKR – Kolkata Knight Riders. Since then, the former skipper of Royal Challengers Bangalore has made many records in the tournament's history, which is hard to be broken.
The King had shattered many records in the Indian Premier League, and the IPL 2016 will be the most cherished one for Kohli and his faithful fans. RCB also did well in that season. They reached the final. But still, they couldn't win the IPL title.
RCB lost to the SRH. But still, the 2016 IPL edition is remembered for Kohli’s dominance. In 2016, VK scored 973 runs, which is the most by any player in a single season.
He has smashed four centuries in that season, which is also the most by any player from RCB. In the IPL 2016 season, Virat Kohli also registered the highest partnership in IPL history.
In the match against Gujarat Lions, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers shared a stand of 229 runs for the second wicket, and till now, this partnership is the highest in this T20 tournament. ABD and Kohli also shared another mammoth stand against MI in 2015. That was an unbeaten stand of 215 runs.
Virat Kohli started his captaincy in the Indian Premier League in 2013, and like all other RCB captains, he also ended his IPL captaincy career without a trophy.
His first and last match as a skipper of RCB was against Kolkata Knight Riders. VK had captained the RCB side in 140 games.
Under Kohli, RCB won 66 and lost 70 IPL games. As a captain, he has amassed 4871 runs, which is the most runs by any skipper in the IPL history.
Virat also has 35 fifties to his name, and his five centuries in IPL have come as the RCB captain. But still, Virat Kohli’s name is with legends who haven’t won any ICC tiles for India nor IPL trophy for RCB.
