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Chris Gayle v Virat Kohli
Chris Gayle
Careers 13,296 Ave 38.20 MR 146.94
Wickets 80 Ave 31.10 ER 7.64
Most races. Most of the hundreds. Most of the six. Highest score. The fastest hundred. The only name above all of these lists on T20 is Gayle. It was an established international name at the time the T20 cricket took root, but it is a format that it endorsed with its consistently high score around the world. The first to break the 10,000 mark in T20, he still has a lead of more than 3,000 races at the top. His 22 hundreds are 14 more than the next best, and he could become the first to reach 1,000 six. He has won two T20 World Cups and has impressive numbers in the tournament. Gayle’s stellar turn in the T20 league world began at IPL 2011, when he joined Royal Challengers Bangalore as a replacement player. He finished the season as the best run scorer, a feat he would repeat in 2012, and was named MVP when his team reached the final. After a third consecutive IPL season in which he made more than 600 runs, he led Jamaica Tallawahs to the inaugural CPL title in 2013. He added another title in 2016 and is the league’s top career scorer. At 40, Gayle is past his prime, but he already has a record that will cost him a beating.
Virat Kohli
Careers 8900 Ave 41.92 MR 134.56
The only player to average over 40 among those with more than 5,000 T20 runs, Kohli’s success is due to solid technique combined with a hitting philosophy that minimizes risk. That average moves to over 50 in T20I, a format in which he is the top scorer. He is also the most prolific career scorer in the IPL, and starred in the 2011 and 2016 campaigns of Royal Challengers Bangalore, where they reached the final. At the IPL 2016, the RCB captain, a role he assumed prior to the 2013 season, racked up a record 973 runs at an average of 81.08 and a strike rate of 152.03; He also scored four of his five T20 hundreds that season. He was also the Tournament Player at the 2014 and 2016 T20 World Cups, but his best personal successes in those tournaments (77 in the 2014 final against Sri Lanka, and 89 not in the 2016 semi-final against the West Indies) came in knockout losses. .
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