By Admin 
For any cricketer, debut matches, debut centuries, half -centuries or first wickets are moments that he never forgets, but Virat Kohli forgot the name of the batsman who took his first wicket in the IPL by dismissing him. Anyway, Kohli does not bowl much, he is a proper batsman but sometimes he also bowls. Kohli forgot but do you know which batsman he took in the IPL? Let us tell you.
Virat Kohli is one of the players who are playing in the IPL from the first edition. He has played for Royal Challengers Bangalore from the beginning and this time is a part of this team. He is the highest run -scorer in the tournament, he has scored 8253 runs in 251 innings of 259 matches. Virat also has 4 wickets in the IPL. He took his first wicket in the first season.
Virat Kohli forgotten batsman’s name
Between IPL 2025, Jatin Sapru took an interview of Virat Kohli, in which he asked Kohli many questions in the rapid fire round. He asked in a question that in the IPL, which batsman did you take the first wicket? On this, Kohli said Harshal Gibbs from the gate, which was wrong. He then took the name of Ravi Teja, but Jatin called it wrong and said that against Deccan Chargers in 2009 (although Virat took that wicket in 2008). Kohli took the names of Venugopal Rao and then Adam Gilchrist but they were all wrong.
Virat Kohli Interview with Jatin Sapru pic.twitter.com/8vykzboriv
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Virat Kohli took the first wicket in the IPL for which batsman?
Talking about the bowling performance in the IPL of Virat Kohli, he has scored a total of 251 balls, in which he has given 368 runs. He has taken a total of 4 wickets in the IPL, of which his best is 2/25. This is of the same match in which Kohli took his debut IPL wicket. In this match, Kohli dismissed a total of 2 batsmen.
Virat Kohli took the first wicket of Sri Lankan batsman Chamara Silva in the IPL, he was caught out. Kohli then bowled Ravi Teja in this match. Earlier, he had bowled in 3 matches, but did not get any wicket. Apart from Chamara Silva and Ravi Teja, Virat Kohli has dismissed Brendon McCullum and Wriddhiman Saha in the IPL. He has a total of 4 wickets in the IPL.
Virat Kohli stuck on another question
Jatin then asked Virat that you started your captaincy in the IPL against which team. So Virat recalled that perhaps 2013 but Jatin immediately interrupted Virat Kohli and said that it is not 2011. So Kohli was also shocked on this, he said “I don’t remember.”
Let us tell you that Virat Kohli played his first match against Rajasthan Royals in 2011 as captain. He got the chance of the captain because team captain Daniel Vettori was out due to knee injury. Kohli RCB’s full time captain was appointed in 2013.