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Who has dismissed Virat Kohli most often in the IPL?

Computed 26 October 2026Checked by the maintainer

Sandeep Sharma has been Virat Kohli's biggest nemesis in the IPL, dismissing him 7 times (bowler-credited dismissals only). Ashish Nehra is next with 6, followed by Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami on 5 apiece.

Supporting result — rows returned by the final query

bowlerdismissals
Sandeep Sharma7
A Nehra6
JJ Bumrah5
Mohammed Shami5
MJ McClenaghan4
JO Holder4
Avesh Khan4
B Kumar4
DS Kulkarni4
K Rabada4
How this was computed (1 query)
WITH kohli AS (
  SELECT id FROM players WHERE name ILIKE '%Kohli%' AND name ILIKE 'V%' LIMIT 1
)
SELECT bp.name AS bowler, COUNT(*) AS dismissals
FROM deliveries d
JOIN matches m ON m.id = d.match_id AND m.format = 'IPL'
JOIN kohli k ON d.player_out_id = k.id
JOIN players bp ON bp.id = d.bowler_id
WHERE d.wicket_kind IN ('bowled','caught','caught and bowled','lbw','stumped','hit wicket')
GROUP BY bp.name
ORDER BY dismissals DESC
LIMIT 10;
Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · T20 internationals between full-member nations (2005–) and 11 major T20 leagues · data through 24 October 2026Show ▾

Source. Ball-by-ball data from Cricsheet. New matches are loaded from Cricsheet twice a day (10:00 and 22:00 UTC), typically a day or two after a match is published there.

Internationals. T20 internationals are included only when both teams are ICC full members. Fixtures against Associate nations (e.g. Netherlands, Scotland, Nepal, USA) are not in the dataset, so international totals for players who faced them are lower than their full career figures.

Leagues. Leagues: IPL, BBL, PSL, CPL, SA20, MLC, ILT20, BPL, LPL, WBBL, WPL — full history of each. Domestic T20 competitions outside this list (e.g. the Blast, SMAT, Super Smash) are not included.

Exclusions. Super overs are excluded from every total. Match appearances (M) come from the playing XI in each match file, so a match where a player neither batted nor bowled still counts as an appearance. Where M is missing, that player's appearances have not been loaded yet.

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The question was interpreted by a language model, which wrote the queries. The supporting rows are the source of truth; the prose summarises them.

  • Inns (batting) — innings in which the player came to the crease, including as non-striker without facing a ball. In T20 a player bats at most once per match, so Inns is also the number of matches they batted in; M can be higher.
  • Inns (bowling) — innings in which the player bowled at least one delivery. Matches where they did not bowl are not counted.
  • Batting average — runs divided by dismissals. Bowling average — runs conceded divided by wickets. Not-out innings add runs but no dismissal.
  • Batting strike rate — runs per 100 balls faced (wides excluded). Bowling strike rate — balls per wicket.
  • Economy — runs conceded per six legal balls bowled.
  • Dot ball — a legal delivery (no wide or no-ball) from which no runs were scored, including byes and leg-byes.

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