If there is one team in IPL known for its volatility, it is Royal Challengers Bangalore. Be it their on-field performance or the auction-table player drafting; they have been at both ends, to be honest. For instance, RCB possesses both the tournament’s highest and lowest team scores.
Even if you take the top six individual scores in the tournament history, there are 4 entries from RCB and one against them.
You can almost call it Virat Kohli’s RCB. Virat, who handed in his notice from captaincy last year, is the only player in the tournament history to play for a single team throughout. He also led the team from 2012 to 2021, a period of 10 years. Here are the records that Virat Kohli owns in the league.
Coming back to the topic, Virat Kohli leads the run-scoring chart for RCB in IPL, and he leads by a significant margin. Here are the top ten leading runs scorers for the Bangalore-based franchise.
Most Runs for RCB in IPL
PLAYERS | RUNS | INNINGS | AVERAGE | STRIKE RATE | HIGH SCORE | 50s/100s |
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Virat Kohli | 8004 | 244 | 38.66 | 131.97 | 113* | 55/8 |
AB de Villiers | 4491 | 144 | 41.20 | 158.63 | 133* | 37/2 |
Chris Gayle | 3163 | 84 | 43.32 | 152.72 | 175* | 19/5 |
Faf du Plessis | 1636 | 45 | 38.04 | 146.99 | 96 | 15/0 |
Glenn Maxwell | 1266 | 50 | 28.77 | 159.24 | 78 | 12/0 |
Jacques Kallis | 1132 | 42 | 31.44 | 112.19 | 89* | 10/0 |
Dinesh Karthik | 937 | 53 | 24.65 | 162.95 | 83 | 3/0 |
Rahul Dravid | 898 | 37 | 26.41 | 122.84 | 75* | 4/0 |
Devdutt Padikkal | 884 | 29 | 31.57 | 125.03 | 101* | 6/1 |
Rajat Patidar | 799 | 24 | 34.73 | 158.84 | 112* | 7/1 |
Stats Highlights
The tournament’s highest individual score, 175 of Chris Gayle against Pune Warriors in 2013, belongs to RCB.
Gayle also joins his captain Virat Kohli on the number of centuries scored for the franchise – 5 each, followed by ABD with 2 tons. Virat has the most fifties playing for RCB.
Considering the boundaries hit, Gayle has hit the most number of maximums for the Royal Challengers – 263 (also the topper in the league), and Virat has hit the most number of fours for RCB.
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