Virat Kohli’s poor run of form in the IPL 2022 continued as the former RCB skipper endured his fourth golden duck in the league at the hands of Lucknow Super Giants bowler Dushmantha Chameera on Tuesday.
Kohli came in to bat after RCB had lost the opener, Anuj Rawat, for 4 in the first over and went for a first-ball duck in the last delivery of the first over. It was a back-of-length ball outside off and the 33-year-old Delhi batter just pushed it for a simple catch to the fielder at point. In seven matches in IPL 2022 so far, Kohli has managed only 119 runs at an average of 19.83 with the highest score of 48.
What is more disheartening however is the fact that King Kohli has now gone 100 innings across format without reaching the triple-figure mark. Kohli has now gone 17 Tests, 21 ODIs, 25 T20Is, and 37 IPL matches without reaching the three-figure mark. However, Kohli’s wretched luck of not reaching the century mark is by no means an indication that the former World No.1 player has been enduring a terrible run of form. In fact, in the 2020 and 2021 IPL seasons, Kohli managed over 400 runs and scored three fifties each.
In 2020, he had 466 runs in 15 matches at 42.36 and 405 runs in 12 matches in 2021 at 28.92 – even though his strike rate was a tad slower. Overall, Kohli’s last hundred in the IPL came in the 2019 season. He has five centuries to his name in the tournament, which is second only to Chris Gayle’s tally of 6.
