Virat Kohli becomes the first batsman to score 400 runs in 10 different IPL seasons, SRH vs RCB IPL 2024

SRH vs RCB: Virat Kohli is not called the emperor of such records. Even if RCB is not performing well in IPL 2024 and is on the verge of being out of the playoffs. But Virat Kohli's bat is busy scoring a lot of runs. Kohli has now become the first batsman to score 400 runs in the current season and he also still holds the Orange Cap. Apart from this, he has also become the first player in the history of IPL to score 400 or more runs in 10 different seasons.

Virat Kohli scored 400 runs in the 10th season

Virat Kohli has been playing for RCB since IPL 2008. Kohli scored more than 400 runs in a season for the first time in 2011. In IPL 2011, he scored 557 runs in 16 matches. After that, there have been only 4 seasons in 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2022, when Kohli has scored less than 400 runs in any one season. Now in the match against SRH in IPL 2024, the figure of 400 runs has been touched in a single season. In the current season, Ruturaj Gaikwad is in second place in the race for Orange Cap, who has scored 349 runs so far.

Record 973 runs were scored in 2016

Virat Kohli also holds the record for scoring the most runs in a single season of the Indian Premier League. In 2016, Kohli had scored 973 runs in 16 matches at an excellent average of 81.08. In that season, Virat had scored 7 half-centuries and 4 century innings. IPL 2016 was also the best for Virat Kohli in terms of strike rate. That was the first time in the history of the Indian Premier League, when Kohli batted at an overall strike rate of more than 150 in the entire season.

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