Even median batters are netting more runs than before and the room for bowlers appears shrinking
Indian Premier League 2024 Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Highlights: Mumbai chased won the target of 197 with 27 balls to spare as Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav smashed fifties
MI vs RCB Playing 11: Vaijaykumar Vyshak and Mahipal Lomror were back in the playing 11 of Bengaluru while Will Jacks made his debut replacing Cameron Green. Shreyas Gopal replaced Chawla in Mumbai
The prominence of opening the batting and striking well is even more important given that both Kohli and Rohit are ageing openers, and their place in Indian squad for T20 World Cup 2024 is debatable
In four matches, Rohit has scored only 118 runs, However, those runs have come at a stunning strike rate of 171. But Kohli is the leading run-scorer having scored 316 in 5 innings
Slamming 316 runs with the help of two fifties and a century, Kohli is the leading run-scorer of IPL 2024. However, his strike rate of 146.29, is only ahead of Sai Sudharsan among top five run-getters
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Virat Kohli has the most number of catches in IPL history. Jadeja becomes the second Chennai Super Kings (CSK) player to take 100 catches
The former top cop of Delhi worked with the BCCI between 2015 and 2018. His role in the BCCI ACU required him to regularly interact with the cricketers and he found most to be nice and approachable
Jadeja, an astute cricket brain, felt that there seemed to be some discrepancy in what Kohli observed and how in general the pitch behaved during the entire duration of the game
Chris Gayle with 22 centuries to his name in T20 cricket is miles away from any other batter as the second player on the list is Pakistan's Babar Azam who has hit 11 T20 centuries
Kohli now has a two-century lead against Chris Gayle, who has six centuries in IPL history. Virat has been part of the IPL ever since its start in 2008
More than the runs that he was scoring,m it was the facial expression of Kohli and the way he was playing that made him trend on the internet
Kohli has waged a lone battle for RCB this IPL season with 203 runs in four matches at 67.66 with two fifties
It becomes important to know the big match-ups in this game to gauge if it could produce a similar thrill to the one in 2023
If an Englishman who has been brought up playing at Headingley for Yorkshire is getting beaten for pace, it indeed says a lot about Mayank's ability to rush the players.
KKR started off on a rousing note as the opening duo of Philip Salt (30 off 20 balls) and Sunil Narine (47 off 22 balls) added 86 runs in just 6.3 overs.
The anticipation has been built in such a manner that it seems to be the most awaited game of the season. The stakes are high as both teams are coming on the back of wins in their last matches
IPL 2024 Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Punjab Kings Highlights: Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik played crucial innings as Bengaluru managed to chase down 177 and register their first win of the season
If RCB is to win the trophy, they must work on their strengths instead of worrying about their weakness. We try to find out what their strengths and weaknesses are through this SWOT analysis
Kohli is coming off a two-month break from competitive cricket. He skipped the five-Test series against England at home due to personal reasons