Virat Kohli: BCCI has revealed the retention rules for IPL 2025. According to the retention rules, all teams can retain a maximum of 6 players from their team by including RTM in their team. By the end of this month, all the teams will have to submit the list of their retained players to BCCI. After which the IPL auction is to be held in November.

Virat Kohli will be Bangalore's first retention

There is very good news for the fans of Royal Challengers Bangalore regarding retention. According to media reports, Bangalore has almost decided the players to be retained. In which once again he can give his top spot in retention to the biggest player Virat Kohli. However, it has not been mentioned in these reports whether Virat Kohli will get the amount as per the purse fixed by BCCI as first retention or he may get more money than the fixed purse.

Let us tell you that ever since the retention started, Virat Kohli has always been retained by Bangalore. Not only this, in the past many times during retention, Kohli was always given the top spot, in which many times he was given more money than the retention price fixed by BCCI. Ever since the IPL started, Virat Kohli has been playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Virat Kohli would like to win the trophy

It has not been revealed in the media reports what the remaining retention of Bangalore is going to be but it is absolutely certain that Virat Kohli will get the first spot in the retention. After winning every trophy in white ball for Team India, Kohli would now like to end his trophy drought in IPL also. Virat has played 17 seasons of IPL so far but he has not been successful in winning the trophy yet.

Virat Kohli's IPL career has been like this

If we talk about Virat Kohli's statistics in IPL, then he is the highest run-scorer batsman in IPL. He has scored 8004 runs in 244 innings of 252 matches played in IPL at an average of 38.67 and strike rate of 131.97. During this period he has scored 55 fifties and 8 centuries. His highest score in this is 113 runs.