Three Reasons Why IPL 2024 Will Be Very Crucial For Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli will be in action on day one of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) take on defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the Chepauk on Friday, March 22.

The former India and RCB captain will have a lot to prove in this IPL 2024, and would be enduring a very crucial IPL 2024 final. Virat Kohli finished as the fourth-highest run-scorer, but he would have to do a lot more in the seventeenth edition of the tournament.

Three Reasons Why IPL 2024 Will Be Very Crucial For Virat Kohli

His T20 credentials at stake: Despite having scored most runs in T20I cricket and IPL history, Virat Kohli's T20I credentials have been at stake for the last few. However, the batting maestro defied all the odds and bounced back with miraculous performances.

His match-winning knock against Pakistan at the T20 World Cup 2022 at MCG will go down in folklore. He also broke his three-year wait for an international hundred by slamming a ton against Afghanistan.

However, India's failure to win an ICC trophy, and Kohli's slow start in the shortest format, has raised questions over his T20 credentials. Will Virat Kohli be part of India's T20 World Cup 2024 team? This is a burning question at the moment.

The former India captain would not want to miss out on a berth, and the IPL 2024 would be a perfect stage to seal a place for himself with his performance rather than his stature.

For RCB fans, and the team: Royal Challengers Bangalore Women won the title in their second season, but the men's team are still waiting to win their maiden trophy since the inaugural edition in 2008.

The expectations of fans are high after Smriti Mandhana's team WPL win. They would be hoping for King Kohli to end the 16-year-old drought for an IPL trophy, by inspiring the team like never before.

For his own IPL career: Virat Kohli will be 36-year-old this year in October, and has to look after his own personal branding. A heroic performance in the IPL 2024 season would send out the message that like MS Dhoni, Faf du Plessis, Shikhar Dhawan and Dinesh Karthik, Kohli also is there to have a long-lasting IPL career.

His inability to win an IPL trophy under his watch from 2013 to 2021, saw du Plessis taking over the captaincy. A low-scoring season as a non-captain, won't really be good for Kohli.