7 interesting facts about Virat Kohli

#2 Virat is the only player in IPL to never be auctioned

Virat Kohli has been playing for Royal Challengers Banglore since 2008 in IPL.

The consistency of a player can be known through the number of franchises he has played for in the Indian Premier League. A player can be considered extremely consistent if he has just played for 1 franchise since 2008 in IPL. Virat Kohli is one such player who has played all the IPL seasons for the Bangalore-based franchise.

Virat is also a cricketer who has never been auctioned so far in the history of IPL. During the first season of IPL, each team was supposed to pick a player from the under-19 draft. Virat was the part of that under-19 draft in 2008 during which RCB bought him for the first time.

Since then, the franchise hasn't let him go. In 11 years of the IPL, he has emerged as the 2nd highest run scorer in the IPL after Suresh Raina.

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#1 Virat Kohli is the fastest batsman ever to reach the milestone of 10,000 ODI runs

Sachin Tendulkar is a legendary name in the cricketing world and was certainly the best batsman in the ODI format of the game. He held the record of aggregating 10,000 runs in the least number of ODI matches. However, Virat broke this record as he took 54 innings fewer than Sachin.

Sachin Tendulkar had taken 259 innings to score 10,000 runs in ODIs. However, Virat just took 205 innings to score ten thousand runs in ODIs becoming the fastest ever cricketer to reach the milestone. Apart from this, it is also expected that Virat would beat Sachin’s record of 49 centuries in ODIs in the near future.