The team of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has qualified for Qualifier 1 of IPL 2025 where they will collide with Punjab Kings (PBKS) on Thursday 29 May. However, before this big match, Virat Kohli’s playoff record is working to intimidate RCB fans. In the current season, Kohli performed brilliantly, scoring 602 runs in 13 innings at an average of 60.20 and a strike rate of 147.91, with his names eight fifties.
Despite his great performance, the matter of concern for RCB in this important match is that Kohli has not been able to perform his best in the playoffs in the history of IPL. Virat Kohli has played 15 matches in the playoffs and scored just 341 runs at an average of 26.23 and a strike rate of 121.78. During this time, RCB opener has scored only two half -centuries, the last of which was in the famous final of the 2016 edition.
It is obvious that Kohli’s playoff record has not been good, but if ACB has to lift the trophy this year, then he will have to change this record, only then his team will be able to finish the 18 -year trophy. Kohli has done this at the international level, so the expectations of the fans have increased even more. Kohli ended his long drought of more than fifty in the knockout stages of the ODI Cup with the World Records 50th century in the semi -finals of the tournament in the 2023 ODI World Cup against New Zealand. He also scored 55 runs in the final against Australia.
Kohli also played an important role in India’s T20 World Cup win in 2024 with his 76 (59) player of the match performance in the final against South Africa. In the Champions Trophy 2025 semi -finals against Australia, Kohli also scored an important innings of 84 (98), which India chased 265 runs and won the match by four wickets.
Whenever his team has needed him in the last two years, Kohli has contributed significantly to the team’s victory by playing a big innings. In such a situation, RCB fans are expecting a similar performance from Kohli this time too.
