IPL 2023 is starting from March 31, once again the most popular player of this tournament will be Virat Kohli. His records give the answer as to why this veteran of RCB is saluted.
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New Delhi. The Indian Premier League 2023 is starting from 31 March. The first match will be between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad. But apart from this match, another match will be watched by crores of fans. It is being talked about against RCB, which has to play its first match against Mumbai Indians on 2 April. Everyone’s eyes will be on Virat Kohli in this match because he is the most successful batsman in IPL history and it would not be wrong to say that Kohli is also the biggest player of this league.
Millions of fans don’t keep their eyes on Virat Kohli just like that. Virat Kohli has achieved this position with his figures. Let us tell you that numbers game of Virat Kohli, on the basis of which his skills speak in the world’s most expensive cricket league.
- Virat Kohli is the fastest Indian batsman to score a century in IPL. Virat Kohli scored a hundred in 47 balls against Punjab Kings in the year 2016. In the same season, he also scored a century in 53 and 56 balls.
- Virat Kohli is the highest run scorer in IPL as captain. Virat Kohli has scored 4881 runs as captain, Dhoni is at number two after scoring 4556 runs.
- Virat Kohli has also scored the most runs in a season as a partnership. In the year 2016, Virat added 939 runs with de Villiers.
- Virat Kohli is the Indian to win the most Player of the Match awards in a season. In the year 2016, Virat Kohli became player of the match 5 times. By the way, Chris Gayle has become the player of the match maximum 6 times in a season. He did this feat in the year 2011.
- Virat Kohli is the only player who has scored more than 2000 runs at any two batting positions. Virat Kohli has done this feat at the opening and number 3 positions.
- Virat Kohli has scored 3554 runs batting first which is a record. Not only this, he has scored maximum 3070 runs even while chasing.
- Virat Kohli is the player with the most innings of more than 30 runs in IPL. He has done this feat 96 times. In this season, he can reach this figure to 100.
- Virat Kohli is the highest run scorer in a season. In the year 2016, he scored 973 runs in 16 matches. In which 4 centuries came out of his bat.
- Virat Kohli is the most Indian player to score 5 centuries in IPL. If he scores one more century this season, he will equal Chris Gayle. If it takes two centuries, he will make another record in his name.
- Virat Kohli is the highest run scorer in IPL. 6411 runs have come out of his bat. If this IPL season of his is great, then he can reach this figure up to 7 thousand.
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