Virat Kohli, the former captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL), has an impressive batting record with 6624 most runs. He has countless records in all three formats of the game and could add more to his tally before calling it a day.
Kohli highest score in iPL – The Leading Run-scorer
Virat Kohli didn’t have a memorable IPL debut. Former Kolkata Knight Riders pacer Ashok Dinda cleaned up Kohli for just one run. Royal Challengers Bangalore, too, crumbled as they were bowled out for 82 chasing a mammoth 223. But, 15 years later, Kohli is the top run-scorer in the IPL.
He was the first player to cross 6000 runs in the IPL and leads the runs chart with 6624 runs at an average of 36.19.
Virat Kohli IPL Runs (season wise)
Most Runs in IPL history – Virat kohli
After playing in all 15 seasons of the IPL, Virat Kohli is the leading run-getter in the IPL. The dashing batter is 380 runs ahead of second-placed Shikhar Dhawan. Though he amassed just 718 runs in his first three seasons, Kohli, who won the World Cup with India in 2011, picked up the pace and has hit at least two fifties in every campaign from the 2011 edition.
Kohli is the most run scorer in the IPL history with 7263 total runs with 237 matches & 229 innings.
Most Runs in a Single Season
Highest Partnership in IPL History
Boundaries & Centuries
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma scored more than 12,000 IPL runs between them. The legendary duo hold plenty of records and are the mainstays of their respective franchises. In IPL, Kohli has scored more runs, fours, half-centuries, and hundreds than Rohit. However, Rohit has hit more sixes, played more matches, and has a slightly better strike rate than his team India teammate in IPL.
Virat Kohli Bowling Record in IPL
Frequently asked questions
Virat Kohli has scored a total of 74 centuries in international cricket – 46 hundreds in ODIs, 27 in Test matches, and one in T20I.
Virat Kohli has hit a total of six hundreds in T20 – five centuries in IPL and one in the Indian cricket team jersey.
Virat Kohli has registered seven double centuries in international cricket. All of them have come in Tests.
