File picture of Virat Kohli.© BCCI
Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has named his prime 10 batters of IPL 2025, highlighting their strike-rate as the important thing standards behind the picks. Nonetheless, Manjrekar left Virat Kohli out of his checklist comprising of 4 Indian batters. Kohli leads the scoring charts for RCB this season with 248 runs in six matches at a good strike-rate of 143.35 and a median of 62. He’s the sixth highest run-scorer within the match this season, with Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) vice-captain Nicholas Pooran sitting on the prime with 357 runs in seven matches.
Taking to X (previously Twitter), Manjrekar wrote: “T20 cricket is as a lot about SR as runs. Right here is the checklist that basically issues. High 10 batters this IPL with over 200 runs at nice SR.”
Listed below are Sanjay Manjrekar’s High 10 batters of IPL 2025:
T20 cricket is as a lot about SR as runs. Right here is the checklist that basically issues. High 10 batters this IPL with over 200 runs at nice SR.
Priyansh Arya
Nicholas Pooran
Shreyas Iyer
Abhishek Sharma
Phil Salt
Mitchell Marsh
Travis Head
Heinrich Klassen
Jos Buttler
Okay L Rahul.…
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) April 18, 2025
Kohli has the most effective common (72.8) whereas chasing and finest common (164.0) in profitable run-chases in IPL since 2023. With RCB set to tackle Punjab Kings (PBKS) in Bengaluru, Kohli may have the prospect to grow to be the primary participant to register 3500 runs at a single venue in T20s. To date, Kohli scored 3485 runs at Bengaluru in T20s.
Kohli may have the prospect to unlock one other milestone. He wants two sixes to overhaul Rohit Sharma because the second highest six-hitter
in IPL historical past.
Kohli stands as the best run-scorer in IPL historical past. Representing only one franchise — RCB– Kohli has amassed an astounding 8,252 runs from 258 matches, together with eight centuries and 58 fifties. Remarkably, he has by no means missed a season for RCB, making him the league’s most loyal and prolific batter.
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