5 reasons why Virat Kohli should open in T20Is

#3 He opens regularly in the IPL

Since around the 2016 season of the IPL, Virat Kohli has become Royal Challengers Bangalore’s permanent opener and unleashed absolute carnage in almost all the games he played. In 2017, he may have been completely out of form and a bit jaded, but his performances in 2016 showed that the role of a T20 opening batsman suits him perfectly.

Till date, he has opened 43 times in the IPL and has amassed 1743 runs at an average of 52.82. Meanwhile, he also scored four centuries and 12 half centuries in those 43 innings. Kohli’s show in the IPL is the perfect indication that he should make one of the opener’s berths in international T20s his own and there is no reason why he can’t replicate his exploits in the international arena.