India's cross-format master Virat Kohli was retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for 17 crore ($2.67 m;£1.97 m) on 5 January 2018, ahead of the 11th season of the world's richest Twenty competition. Kohli has played for RCB since the inception of the Indian Premier League in 2008, and is the current team captain.Kohli's fee eclipsed the 16 crore that the Delhi Daredevils paid for countryman Yuvraj Singh in 2015. Kohli had scored 4,418 runs in 141 innings (149 matches) in the IPL by the end of the 2017 tournament. Only India's Suresh Raina (4,540) has scored more runs. Kohli's tally of four hundreds (all scored in 2016) has only been surpassed by only man – Jamaica's Chris Gayle has five hundreds to his name. In 2016, Kohli scored 973 runs in 16 matches, at an average of 81.08 runs per innings – the most runs scored in an IPL season.