Virat Kohli in IPL through the years: The transformation in pictures

2010: The beginning of the legend

Kohli carried a light stubble in his formative IPL years.

The world had started to notice him because of a few eye-catchy knocks by him in the India blue. He was still getting a hang of things in IPL, unable to do justice to his immense talent on a larger scale. He came into IPL 2010 with some confidence, Kallis Dravid promise

2011: Retained by RCB, repays faith in kind

Kohli was the only player retained by RCB in the 2011 auctions

The Royal Challengers went for a complete overhaul in the IPL 2011 auctions, retaining just one player: a masterstroke by them. Kohli thrives under the faith shown by the franchise, scoring 557 runs at an average of 46.41, with four fifties. He gave first glimpses of his class when he combined with Gayle at the top of the order, but still didn’t have the abillity to win matches single-handedly.