IPL: 5 best Indian captains in tournament history
There are Indian players who have displayed their leadership prowess in the T20 carnival time and time again and marshalled their troops to many epic triumphs.
4. Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli is one of those players who have made heads turn every time he has stepped into the cricket field. He has annihilated batters with his marauding bat and made world cricket his happy hunting ground. Also, the 34-year-old is an inspirational captain and has shown his leadership might in both the international circuit and the lucrative T20 tournament.
Talking about IPL, Kohli has featured in 239 matches and aggregated an insane tally of 6903 runs at a strike rate of 129.61. Further, the veteran batter has led Royal Challengers Bangalore in 142 matches and done a decent job, piloting the team to 66 victories.
In IPL 2016, Kohli led from the front and amassed a staggering tally of 973 runs in 16 matches at a strike rate of 152.03. He was spot-on with his tactics on the field and steered RCB to the summit clash. The Delhi-born also shepherded the team to playoffs in the years 2015, 2020 and 2021.
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