Virat Kohli, a batsman for Royal Challengers Bangalore, broke a record in the last league match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023. He got his seventh century, which is the most by any batsman in the history of the league.
This was Virat’s second hundred in a row in the IPL 2023, but his team still got kicked out of the game. Kohli, on the other hand, hit back at his critics after the game when he was asked about his strike rate, which has been in the 130s all season.
What did Virat Kohli say?
“I felt great. A lot of people think that I’m getting worse at T20 cricket, but I don’t feel that way at all. The former captain of India said, “I think I’m playing my best Twenty20 cricket again.”
“I’m just enjoying myself. This is how I play T20 cricket: I try to hit gaps, a lot of boundaries, and then big ones at the end if the situation allows it. You have to be able to read events and step up when the time calls for it. I feel really good about my game and how I’m hitting right now,” he said.
The numbers from Virat’s season
Kohli played in all 14 RCB games and opened the batting in each one. The batsman got 639 runs, which was the third most in the league. Faf du Plessis, the Orange Cap holder and his captain, had 730 runs, and Shubman Gill had 680 runs. Kohli, on the other hand, has the highest strike rate of the top three, at 139.82.
Virat’s hit rate is a strange case.
Kohli had his best season in 2016, which was also the only time in his IPL history that he had a strike rate of 150 or more. Even though he had two good years after 2016, in 2018 and 2019, Kohli hasn’t been in the best shape since 2022, when he had a strike rate of 121.35. Even so, the batsman got more than 400 runs twice out of three times.
