Introduction :
IPL setting the blazes high up has always been a kind of festival in India. It is celebrated with the realm of who is the top most run carrier in the year line of the match and also who has got the highest and qualitative spinning skills, fielding as well as wicket keeping skills and many more. One such awesome IPL in the history lane of the Indian Premier league was the event of the particular year of 2016.And who scored the most runs in the 2016 ipl? The answer to this quest4 one and only the king of the cricket world, Virat Kohli.
He actually set the bars high and the points table on a bombastic fire light with a run count of 973 runs and also that is the record which is often displayed by other players as the records for the top most runs in the whole IPL season or the event, which he himself has done it within a single match event. That was just creepily amazing. That could be defined as the most number of runs by a single player in the whole season. But, the Royal Challengers Bangalore shot up at the limitless last but not the least fight because of the reason that they became limited in the runs and the point count in the total count at the end.Also, competing with the team, SRH that is Sunrisers Hyderabad had also scored a run count of 208 runs in the same event that too within a time period of a span of just 8 runs or days.
Discussion of who scored the most runs in the 2016 ipl
The captain of the said team of the RCB has made his legs strong over the coveted Orange cap with the top scorer badge and the total of 54 run count against competing with the team of SRH. Kohli had finished off the same in style with a century of four, half centuries of a count of six with the average tally mark of 81.08 which consisted of the strike rate of 152.03
Highest Run Scorer in Last 5 IPL Seasons
Name and Year |
Matches |
Runs |
Strike Rate |
Highest Score |
Virat Kohli (RCB) – 2016 |
16 |
973 |
152.03 |
113 |
Shubman Gill (GT) – 2023 |
17 |
890 |
157.80 |
129 |
Jos Buttler (RR) – 2022 |
17 |
863 |
149.05 |
116 |
David Warner (SRH) – 2016 |
17 |
848 |
151.42 |
93* |
Kane Williamson (SRH) – 2018 |
17 |
735 |
142.44 |
84 |
Conclusion on who scored the most runs in the 2016 ipl
Virat Kohli had always set the bars high in the cricket world with his top scoring points. And this time in the 2016 IPL he was just bombastic. He single handedly had thrashed off the SRH in the finals that was held on the good day of Sunday.