IPL 2018 : 5 Players who can snatch the orange cap from David Warner this season

#1 Virat Kohli

India v Pakistan - 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup — Kohli has scored 4418 runs in 116 IPL matches

Virat Kohli is currently the best batsman in the world across all the three formats. He is often compared with cricket legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Viv Richards.

Kohli has been associated with RCB since the start of the IPL.

He was retained by the franchise this year ahead of the auction for an unbelievable amount of Rs 17 crores. The Indian captain is a world-class batsman who is phenomenal in chasing targets.

Kohli has scored 4418 runs in 116 IPL matches at a strike rate of 129.8 for RCB. In the 2016 season of the IPL, he scored a staggering 973 runs in 16 matches at an average of 81.08 and an explosive strike rate of 152.03.

He also scored four mind-blowing hundreds and seven fifties in that season. Virat is in remarkable form this season. In his six ODIs this year, Kohli has scored 558 runs with an astonishing average of 186.0.

Kohli would surely like to score a lot of runs for RCB to win its first IPL title and thus making him one of the top contenders on the list to snatch the orange cap from Warner.

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