IPL 2022: In numbers - Virat Kohli's IPL journey from record breaking 2016 season to now

Virat Kohli - a batsman who over the years became synonymous with batting greatness. A prolific run machine at his peak, tagged the best chaser in the modern day game. But as it happens with every great player, the purple patches are often followed by lean spells. Virat has set the benchmark so high over the years, thanks to how prolific he has been with the bat, a lean patch, especially if it's a prolonged one, doesn't sit ight with cricket fans. Across the seasons, the IPL is one platform where Virat has really shone with the bat. He continues to be the highest run-getter overall in IPL history, with 6402 runs in 215 matches, at an average of 36.58 and an overall strike rate of almost 130.

(Photo: PTI/BCCI/IPL)The IPL season that no cricket and especially RCB fan can ever forget, as far as Virat's form is concerned, is 2016. The former India captain was on fire that year and scored a record four centuries. Virat's great form that season also propelled RCB into the playoffs that season. They eventually lost to SRH in the final by a narrow 8 run margin. That season, Virat scored a staggering 973 runs in 16 matches. Those numbers still help him hold the record for the most number of runs scored in a single season of the IPL. The most runs scored in one single season after that is 848, by David Warner, for SRH, also in 2016. Before the 2016 season, Virat's best IPL season was the 2013 season, when he scored 634 runs, at an average of 45.28 in 16 matches, with a highest score of 99. Post that record breaking 2016 season Virat's form with the bat in RCB colours has fluctuated quite a bit.

(Photo: PTI/BCCI/IPL)Let's take a look at what Virat Kohli the batsman has been like from 2016 till now in the IPL.2016 - Becomes first