Virat Kohli will undoubtedly be the purpose of focus when Royal Challengers Bengaluru step out to bat in opposition to the Punjab Kings within the IPL 2025 Qualifier 1 match on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, Chandigarh on Thursday.
The 36-year-old Kohli has been a part of heartbreaks aplenty in RCB colors through the years and was part of three IPL finals with the franchise, shedding on all three accounts. Because the IPL Playoffs system was launched, Kohli and RCB have performed in two finals in 2011 and 2016, reaching the finals in each editions after profitable the Qualifier 1 matches.
Nonetheless, Kohli and RCB have held a combined file within the Playoffs phases of the IPL through the years.
Kohli’s IPL 2025 kind and Playoffs file
Regardless of asserting his retirement from T20I cricket final 12 months after profitable the T20 World Cup within the Americas, Kohli has been in supreme contact this IPL 2025 season. The previous India captain has persistently been within the prime 5 for the Orange Cap race and aggregates 602 runs in 13 matches, averaging 60.20 at a 147.91 strike fee.
That is the fifth version the place the league’s highest-ever run-scorer has notched up a minimum of 600 runs, following the 2013 and 2016 seasons behind successive editions in 2023 and 2024.
Kohli has racked up eight fifties this season, his finest haul for any IPL version since debut in 2008, the fifty-plus scores rely was solely bettered throughout his record-breaking season in 2016, with 4 centuries and 7 half-centuries. Kohli has been on an outstanding run away from house too, notching up a fifty in each designated away recreation in 2025.
Nonetheless, RCB’s star batter has not been at his belligerent finest within the Playoffs stage through the years. In 15 earlier IPL Playoffs appearances, Kohli has solely scored 341 runs. Kohli averages 26.23 in these video games and has a lowly 121.78 strike-rate whereas posting a fifty in two innings.
Virat Kohli batting file in IPL Playoffs matches
| Mat | Runs | Common | Greatest | Strike Fee | 50s |
| 15 | 341 | 26.23 | 70* | 121.78 | 2 |