Best IPL XI of the decade
It was a tough task to leave out some of the best players from this XI. But this team is as strong as it can get.
Virat Kohli
If you take a close look, Virat Kohli hasn’t had a standout season apart from that 2016 one. But he’s constantly scored 400-500 runs in a season and has slipped under the radar on multiple occasions. Yet, no other player has more IPL runs than Kohli in this decade.
The current Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper has aggregated 5001 runs at an average of 41.33 since the start of the 2010 season. He has scored 35 fifties and five hundreds in this period. Those five hundreds are the second-most by any player in the IPL as well.
In 2016, Kohli exhibited unreal consistency. He smashed a mind-boggling 973 runs in a season where he averaged 81.08 and also had a strike-rate of 152.03. It was only the third instance in this decade that an Indian won the Orange Cap. After that season, Kohli has blown hot and cold slightly but has remained at the top of the run charts for RCB.
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