The Prince vs King; the past, the present, and the future; aura vs elegance; class and class. Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli. One into a dream form while another attaining the last peak of his career.
Virat Kohli ruled the run-scoring chart for the past decade in the IPL and Shubman Gill will be doing so in the upcoming years. One already a player of the past decade while another potentially set to be crowned the player of the ongoing decade.
So on that note, let’s see 3 big IPL records of Virat Kohli that Shubman Gill can break in the future:
Most runs in a season
Kohli had an insane 2016 IPL season when he scored 973 runs in 16 innings with the help of 7 fifties and 4 centuries. Gill is currently having his best season of his career so far: Gill has scored 851 runs in 16 innings with 4 fifties and 3 centuries.
He has one more match left to play this season: the final. He needs 122 runs in the final to break Virat Kohli’s 973 runs season – scoring these many on a good batting track in Ahmedabad is plausible. However, even if he doesn’t Gill will have more opportunities in the coming decade to break that 973 runs historic record of Kohli’s.
Most IPL centuries
Before the IPL 2023, Shubman didn’t have a single century in the 5 seasons he’d played. Now, within a space of just 4 matches, he’s already in the list of most centuries in IPL with 3 hundreds.
Kohli, courtesy of his twin hundreds this season, leads the list with 7 centuries. While Virat has perhaps a couple of more good seasons to come, Gill has over a decade to go past Kohli’s centuries record. Which is looking more and more likely to be brokes in the coming years.
Most runs in IPL
And finally the big one. The record that will put Shubman amongst the greatest of the IPL batters. Virat Kohli leads the IPL all-time run charts with 7263 runs in 237 matches at an average of 37. As mentioned above, Kohli has 2-3 more IPL seasons left in his career.
Currently, Gill has 2751 runs at 37. And going by how he is batting, and that he will bat the majority of his IPL career on the flat pitch and small boundary-sized Ahmedabad ground, there is a great possibility that the Gujarat Titans opener will go past Kohli’s all-time record.
