Virat Kohli IPL Runs – Year by Year

When a team sees a nurturing talent, the best a team can do is trust him and back him to see the player grow big. This is what RCB did when they saw Virat Kohli’s nurturing talent and the burning fire inside him to take on the world.

When RCB retained Virat Kohli as their lone retainer before the IPL 2010 season, Virat was yet to play a World Cup game for India. Since then, he has played four ODI World Cups and led an Indian Test team to the World Test Championship final under his captaincy.

Virat was 19 years old when he first walked into the RCB dressing room. Now he is playing his 18th season for them, recording as the only player in the tournament to play for a single team every season so far. He was also their skipper for nine years, from 2013 to 2021.

This article will list and analyze Virat Kohli’s yearly IPL batting stats from 2008 to date. (You can also find the same for his international career in this article.)

Virat Kohli IPL Runs Year Wise

Key Insights

Starting with Virat’s best year in his IPL career, his run tally in the 2016 edition stands tall for any player in a single IPL season. Check out the list of batsmen with the most runs in a single IPL season to understand how incredible that year was for him.

He scored four centuries in that season, making him the first to score more than three centuries in a single IPL season. He also recorded the best-ever partnership stand in IPL history that year. In fact, the former Indian and RCB captain has his name carved thrice in the elite list of 200+ partnership scores in the IPL.

You cannot discuss his stats without taking his 2016 numbers into account. He has had eight seasons with his average above 40 so far, and scored at an average of 81.08 in 2016.

His captaincy numbers, though long, look mediocre when you compare them to other successful captains in the league – Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni.

As I am writing this article, he is the only player with 8000+ IPL runs, leading the overall chart.

You should read about these four records of the RCB legend to understand his impact on the league’s history.

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