Virat Kohli, the star batter for Royal Challengers Bengaluru, is on the verge of breaking an IPL record as his team faces the Mumbai Indians in a highly anticipated match.
Virat Kohli, the star batter for Royal Challengers Bengaluru, is on the verge of breaking an IPL record when his team faces the Mumbai Indians in a highly anticipated match. Kohli, the current leading run-scorer in the ongoing IPL 2024, is only four sixes away from reaching 250 maximums in the competition’s history. He will become only the second Indian, after Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma, to reach this major milestone. Overall, he will become the fourth batter to score 250 IPL sixes, trailing only Chris Gayle (357) and Rohit Sharma (264), as well as Kohli’s former RCB teammate AB De Villiers (251). MS Dhoni, the Chennai Super Kings legend, presently ranks seventh with 242 sixes in 255 matches.
Both the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and the Mumbai Indians have had a difficult season in the ongoing IPL 2024. MI were already in the spotlight after Hardik Pandya replaced Rohit Sharma as captain, and things did not improve as the franchise suffered three consecutive losses at the start.
Things were so bad that Hardik was booed by the fans at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, but a win over the Delhi Capitals improved their spirit, and with the squad finally trying to regain its tournament form, they faced a difficult opponent in the form of RCB.
With just one victory, RCB finds themselves in the lowest half of the IPL 2024 points table, despite Kohli’s outstanding play. Due to his strike rate, which many fans and analysts feel was a little too slow for Twenty20 cricket, concerns regarding Kohli’s strategy throughout the knockout stages have arisen. However, RCB’s lackluster bowling attack has been their biggest issue up to this point.
Since RCB lacks a reliable spin option, their bowling efforts have been woefully inadequate thus far in the league. This could become a major problem when facing MI’s batsmen.
