In the world that Ravi Shastri creates, Virat Kohli holds the record for “most IPL trophies.”

In the world that Ravi Shastri creates, Virat Kohli holds the record for “most IPL trophies”. After more than fifteen years of playing in the highest division of cricket, Virat Kohli has accomplished practically everything. He is the most successful Test captain of India, a multiple-time winner of the ICC Player of the Year award, the winner of the World Cup, and the best all-around batter of the contemporary age. But there is one accomplishment that he has yet to do, which is the reason we used the word “almost” above. Even with an incredible career filled with innumerable awards, Kohli has not yet taken home the IPL championship.

Kohli has been a member of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru from the league’s inception in 2008, but despite a run of impressive individual performances, he hasn’t been able to take home the exquisite trophy. He’s appeared three times when RCB made it to the championship game—in 2009, 2011 and 2016—but failed to get past the last stage each time. Even while the majority of his peers have at least one IPL victory under their belts—Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, and MS Dhoni, for example, have each won five times—Kohli has yet to produce a winning performance in his 17 attempts.

One of Kohli’s closest confidants and former India coach Ravi Shastri weighed in on the matter, describing a parallel universe in which Virat would have already won multiple IPL titles. As was already established, Kohli’s performance has never been a concern; his team is the issue. Kohli captained the RCB for nine seasons, but he was unable to bring the team to a championship; Shastri may have discovered why. On Star Sports, he stated, “Virat Kohli would have won the most trophies if IPL was an individual sport.”

And that, my friends, is among the most accurate things a fan of Kohli could ever hear. Consider the year 2016: Kohli dominated the scoreboard, amassing 973 runs, which remains the record for the most runs scored in an IPL season. Or even last year, when after missing three months of T20I cricket, Kohli stormed into the IPL and amassed nearly 650 runs. Kohli is dominating the list of run scorers this year as well, having amassed over 200 runs, including two half-centuries in just four innings, and winning the Orange Cap. Following his dismissal for 21 against CSK, Kohli hammered back-to-back fifties (77 and 83 not out) against KKR and Punjab Kings.

With 7466 runs, Kohli is the highest scoring player in IPL history and, behind MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, and Rohit Sharma, the fourth most capped player. Even though coach Andy Flower tried to cheer up the whole squad, Kohli’s expression showed that RCB had lost to both the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Lucknow Super Giants on their home pitch, failing to chase down 182 on one of India’s smallest cricket venues. After finishing their first round of home games, Faf du Plessis and the RCB will travel to Jaipur to play the Rajasthan Royals, and on Sunday, they will play the struggling Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium.