IPL 2020: Best stat-padders XI of the tournament

3. Virat Kohli

As far as the Royal Challengers Bangalore are concerned, it has been a disappointing story of ‘time and again’ for them. And yet again this season, a string of upsetting losses towards the backend of their campaign crushed their maiden IPL title’s hopes.

A repetition that did work for RCB, however, was Virat Kohli’s red-hot batting form. Across 15 games, the skipper scored 466-runs at the one-down position and was a major factor behind the team’s first playoffs appearance in four years.

But as upsetting as it is, Virat too was plagued by the same issue that some of his other batting colleagues in this team suffered from lack of aggression. While Virat does have a penchant for collecting the majority of his runs through running between the wickets; this year, it proved to be detrimental, as RCB lacked some much-needed boundary hitting in the middle-overs.

An aggregate of just 44 boundaries from 384 deliveries doesn’t do justice to a player of his stature. RCB fans will be hoping that newcomer Devdutt Padikkal’s confident stroke-play at the top-order inspires Virat to get back to his free-flowing run-scoring ways next year.