Delhi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) is going on fiercely in 2025, the bat of veteran Indian player Virat Kohli. He remains the highest run -scorer in the 18th season. Kohli scored an average of 63.13 in 11 matches and 505 runs at a strike rate of 143.46. However, during this time some people were also raising questions about his strike rate. But, now former Indian player Irfan Pathan has given a befitting reply to critics while defending Kohli.
On Saturday, 3 May, Virat Kohli scored 62 runs in a thrilling victory over Chennai Super Kings (CSK) of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Along with this, he also made many big records in the IPL. This was his fourth consecutive half -century of this season and the seventh fifty throughout the tournament. He also made a record against CSK and now he has got 1146 runs, which is the highest run against one team.
Irfan Pathan praised Kohli
Meanwhile, Irfan Pathan responded to those who raised questions about Kohli’s strike rate on X (first Twitter). In the last match, Kohli scored 51 runs in 47 balls, which was criticized for slow batting. Pathan wrote that Kohli can start the innings whenever he wants and can score fast whenever he wants. He said, “He can start the innings, as he did in the previous match. He can also be aggressive, as he did today at a strike rate of 187. He is the real ball of the white ball cricket. He is Virat Kohli!”
He can anchor the innings, like he did last game with a strike rate close to 100. He is Virat Kohli!
– Irfan Pathan (@IRFANPATHAN) May 3, 2025
Virat Kohli made this record:
- Kohli is also in the name of the record for the most runs against any one team (CSK).
- As soon as he hit a six against CSK, Kohli set a record of putting 300 sixes for one team in T20.
- He completed 9500 runs in T20 cricket in India.
- For RCB, he became the highest sixes (304) batsmen in T20.
- Became the highest number of sixes (154) in T20 on the Bangalore ground.
- Completed 8500 runs in IPL and became the only batsman in the world to do so.
- He equaled 62 half -centuries of David Warner in IPL by placing a fifty off 29 balls.
- The most often (10 times) against CSK in IPL became the batsman to score more than 50 runs.
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