Virat Kohli's IPL salary: His salary in each IPL season from 2008 to 2025

Virat Kohli is counted among the best players in the world and he plays for RCB in IPL. He has won many matches for the RCB team with his strong batting. He is also the highest run-scorer in the history of IPL. He has countless records to his name, which every batsman in the world would like to name. But there is one wound that will always haunt him. He has been playing in the IPL since 2008, but he has not yet won the IPL trophy. Kohli left the captaincy of RCB in the year 2021 itself. But do you know how much money Virat Kohli has earned from IPL. So let's know about Virat Kohli's IPL salary, his salary in each IPL season from 2008 to 2025

Virat Kohli's IPL salary

• Virat Kohli is one of those players who have participated in every edition of the IPL. Apart from this, he has represented Royal Challengers Bangalore since the beginning. RCB included him in the inaugural edition of the season in 2008 for Rs 12 lakh. After this Virat never looked back.
• Kohli started his IPL career with a good salary, which remained the same for him for the first three seasons (2008-2010). However, 2011 saw a tremendous increase in his IPL salary. RCB recognized his potential and retained him for 8.28 crores.
• The franchise then made him a full-time captain in 2013. The next season saw a hike of Rs 12.5 crore in Kohli's IPL salary. The 2016 season was the best for Kohli as he scored a record-breaking 973 runs including four centuries, helping RCB reach the finals.
• This incredible performance led to a further increase in his salary in 2018. When he became the most expensive player in the league with a salary of Rs 17 crore and this salary remained intact till 2021. It is to be seen that during the 2022 season affected by the Kovid epidemic, Kohli voluntarily accepted a cut in his salary, in which he got an amount of 15 crores.
• Now for the last three seasons, the Delhi-born player has been playing on the same salary. Let us tell you that in the 2022 season, the veteran player resigned from the captaincy role and handed it over to Faf du Plessis to focus completely on batting. In the same year, he continued his dominance and scored 741 runs in the next season.
• With the last date of retention of 2025 approaching, Virat Kohli is expected to be retained for Rs 18 crore. There is also news that he is interested in captaining RCB again in the upcoming season.

Virat Kohli's salary in each IPL season from 2008 to 2025

Price	Year
Rs. 12 lakh	2008
Rs 12 lakh	2009
Rs 12 lakh	2010
Rs 82.2 million	2011
Rs 8.28 crores	2012
Rs 8.28 crores	2013
Rs 12.5 crore	2014
Rs 12.5 crore	2015
Rs 12.5 crore	2016
Rs 12.5 crore	2017
Rs 17 crore	2018
Rs 17 crore	2019
Rs 17 crore	2020
Rs 17 crore	2021
Rs 15 crores	2022
Rs 15 crores	2023

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