Virat can score 900+ runs in IPL 2023: Back in form!

 

 

Former Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli gave proof of his in-form form by scoring 82 against Mumbai Indians in the very first match of the IPL season. After 4 years, the tournament has returned to the home-away format. In such a situation, 6 more matches of the Bengaluru team will be held on the batting friendly wicket of Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Virat Kohli is opening with Du Plessis. He has a chance to score more than 900 runs like in 2016 IPL season.

Hit 5 sixes in first match

First match of this season against Mumbai Indians, Virat Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 82 off 49 balls to give his team an 8-wicket win. He hit 6 fours and 5 sixes in his innings at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

It is now being expected from his innings that this could prove to be a big season for Virat. The special thing is that even in the first innings of the 2016 season, he scored more than 70 runs.

In best form

Virat Kohli is also seen in his best form in international cricket. He ended his drought of centuries in international cricket by scoring a century against Afghanistan in the 2022 T20 Asia Cup. He scored the most runs for India in the Asia Cup and then in the T20 World Cup.

After the 71st international century of his career, Kohli scored 3 centuries in ODIs and one in Tests as well. He scored a Test century against Australia just a few days before the IPL. In such a situation, his form of international cricket is also tremendous.

6 more matches left in Bengaluru

Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is like a paradise for batters. Here wickets fall less and sixes are hit more. Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 82 runs in the very first match of the tournament here and now the team has to play 6 more matches here.

Virat IPL record at Chinnaswamy Stadium, he has scored 2,248 runs in 73 matches here. In this, 17 Fifty and 3 Centuries also came from his bat. Apart from this, the team also has to play matches in Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Mohali and Kolkata. Where Kohli's record on the pitches has always been excellent.

Virat also opened in 2016

IPL 2016 was the best IPL season of Virat Kohli. Then he scored 973 runs in 16 matches while opening. Then in the fifth match of the season, he scored 2 fifties and a century. His strike rate was 152 and he took his team to the finals.

Kohli team had to face defeat from SRH in the final. But Kohli finished the season with 4 hundreds and 7 fifties in the entire season.