Virat Kohli

Shri Virat Kohli for Cricket, in a sparkling service, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on September 25, 2018 


Born  5 November 1988 (age 34)

New Delhi, India

Nickname  Cheeku

Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)

Batting Right-gave

Bowling Right-arm medium

Role Top-request player

Relations Anushka Sharma (spouse)


Global data

Public side

India (2008-present)

Test debut (cap 269) 20 June 2011 v West Indies

Last Test 22 December 2022 v Bangladesh

ODI debut (cap 175) 18 August 2008 v Sri Lanka

Last ODI 24 January 2023 v New Zealand

ODI shirt no. 18

T20I debut (cap 31) 12 June 2010 v Zimbabwe

Last T20I 10 November 2022 v Britain

T20I shirt no. 18

Homegrown group data

Years Team

2006-present Delhi

2008-present Royal Challengers Bangalore

Profession measurements

Competition Test ODI T20I FC

Matches 104 270 115 136

Runs scored 8,119 12,773 4,008 10,368

Batting average 48.90 57.79 52.73 50.08

100s/50s 27/28 46/64 1/37 34/36

Top score 254* 183 122* 254*

Balls bowled 175 641 152 643

Wickets 0 4 4 3

Bowling average - 166.25 51.00 112.66

5 wickets in innings - 0 0 0

10 wickets in match - 0 0 0

Best bowling - 1/15 1/13 1/19

Gets/stumpings 104/ - 139/ - 50/ - 135/ -

Decoration record

Men's Cricket

Addressing India

World Cup

Winner 2011 India-Bangladesh-Sri Lanka

T20 World Cup

Sprinter up 2014 Bangladesh

ICC World Test Title

Sprinter up 2019-2021


Virat Kohli
Indian Global cricketer

Global CenturiesCareer Measurements

Acknowledgment

Male Cricketer of Decade (2011-2020)Stand named after Virat KohliAnimation

Player of the year


2017-2018
Groups

Indian public cricket Team Royal Challengers Bangalore


Virat Kohli Life Story

Virat Kohli (conceived 5 November 1988) is an Indian worldwide cricketer and previous chief of the Indian public group. Generally viewed as one of the best batsmen of all time,[3] Kohli plays as a right-given batsman for Regal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL and for Delhi in Indian homegrown cricket. He holds the record for scoring most runs in both T20 internationals and in IPL. In 2020, the Worldwide Cricket Chamber named him as player of decade. Kohli has won Man of the Competition grant two times at the ICC World Twenty20, in 2014 and 2016. Playing for his establishment in IPL, he won the Orange Cap and Most-significant Player Grant in 2016 season. Besides has won most player of the match and series grants in T20I. With 40 successes in 68 Test matches, he is India's best Test skipper. Kohli has additionally added to India's victories, including winning the 2011 World Cup and the 2013 Bosses prize.


Brought up in Delhi, Kohli prepared in West Delhi Cricket Foundation; began his childhood vocation with Delhi Under-15 group. Kohli made his worldwide presentation in 2008 and immediately turned into a central participant in the ODI group. He made his Test debut in 2011.[4] In 2013, Kohli arrived at the main spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time.[5] During 2014 T20 World Cup, he set a standard for the most runs scored in the competition. In 2018, Kohli turned into the main positioned Test batsman, making him the main Indian batsman to accomplish the best position in the ICC rankings in every one of the three arrangements. His structure went on in 2019, where he turned into the primary player to score 20,000 global runs in single 10 years. In 2021, Virat Kohli pursued the choice to step down as the commander of the Indian public group for T20Is, following the T20 World Cup and in mid 2022 he ventured down as the chief of the Test group also.


Kohli has gotten numerous honors for his exhibitions on the cricket field. He was perceived as the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012 and has won Sir Garfield Sobers Prize, given to the ICC Cricketer of the Year, on two events, in 2017 and 2018. Kohli likewise won ICC Test Player of the Year and ICC ODI Player of the Year grants in 2018, turning into the principal player to win the two honors around the same time. Moreover, Kohli was named the Wisden Driving Cricketer On the planet for three successive years, from 2016 to 2018. At the public level, Kohli was regarded with the Arjuna Grant in 2013, the Padma Shri under the games classification in 2017 and the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna grant, India's most elevated donning honor, in 2018.


In 2016, he was positioned as one of the world's most renowned competitors by ESPN[6] and one of the most important competitor brands by Forbes.[7] In 2018, Time magazine remembered him for its rundown of the 100 most compelling individuals in the world.[8] In 2020, he was positioned 66th in Forbes rundown of the main 100 most generously compensated competitors on the planet for the year 2020 with assessed profit of more than $26 million.[9]


Early life

Virat Kohli was brought into the world on 5 November 1988 in Delhi to a Punjabi Khatri Hindu family.[10] His dad, Prem Kohli, functioned as a criminal legal counselor and his mom, Saroj Kohli, is a housewife.[11] He has a more seasoned sibling, Vikas, and a more seasoned sister, Bhawna.[12] As per his family, when he was three-years of age, Kohli would get a cricket bat, begin swinging it and request that his dad bowl at him.[13]


Kohli was brought up in Uttam Nagar[14] and began his tutoring at Vishal Bharti Government funded School. In 1998, the West Delhi Cricket Foundation was made and a nine-year-old Kohli was important for its first intake.[14] Kohli's dad took him to the institute after their neighbors proposed that "Virat shouldn't burn through his time in gorge cricket and on second thought join an expert club".[11] Kohli prepared at the foundation under his mentor Rajkumar Sharma and furthermore played matches at the Sumeet Dogra Institute at Vasundhara Territory at the equivalent time.[14] Sharma relates Kohli's initial days at his institute, "He overflowed ability. It was so challenging to keep him calm. He was a characteristic in anything that he did and I was generally dazzled with his disposition. He was prepared to bat at any spot, and I needed to in a real sense push him home after the instructional meetings. He just wouldn't leave."[15] In 10th grade, Kohli moved to Rescuer Religious community School in Paschim Vihar to propel his cricket practice.[16][17] His family lived in Meera Bagh until 2015 when they moved to Gurgaon.[18]


Kohli's dad kicked the bucket on 18 December 2006 because of a stroke subsequent to being incapacitated for a month.[16] As per Kohli, his dad upheld his cricket preparing during his life as a youngster, "My dad was my greatest help. He was the person who drove me to rehearse ordinary. I miss his presence sometimes."[19] His mom noticed that:


Virat changed a piece after that day. Short-term he turned into a considerably more developed individual. He viewed each match in a serious way. He loathed being on the seat. Maybe his life pivoted absolutely on cricket after that day. Presently, he seemed as though he was pursuing his dad's fantasy which was his own too.[16]


Youth and homegrown profession
Delhi

Kohli originally played for Delhi Under-15 group in October 2002 in the 2002-03 Polly Umrigar Prize. He was the main run-scorer for his group in that competition with 172 runs at a normal of 34.40.[20] He turned into the skipper of the group for the 2003-04 Polly Umrigar Prize; scored 390 runs in 5 innings at a normal of 78 including two centuries and two fifties.[21][22] In late 2004, Kohli got chosen in the Delhi Under-17 group for the 2004-05 Vijay Dealer Prize. He scored 470 runs in four coordinates at a normal of 117.50 with two hundreds and top-score of 251* in that tournament.[23] Delhi Under-17s won the following years Vijay Trader Prize in which Kohli completed as the most elevated run-scorer with 757 runs from 7 matches at a normal of 84.11 that included two centuries.[24]


In February 2006, he made his Rundown A presentation for Delhi against Administrations yet didn't get to bat.[25] Few months after the fact, made his top notch debut for Delhi against Tamil Nadu[26] in November 2006, at 18 years old; he was excused for 10 runs in his presentation innings.[27] Kohli came into the spotlight in December when he chose to play for his group against Karnataka; on the day after his dad's passing and proceeded to score 90.[28] He went straightforwardly to the burial service after he was excused. Delhi skipper Mithun Manhas said, "That is a demonstration of extraordinary obligation to the group and his innings ended up being pivotal" while mentor Chetan Chauhan commended Kohli's "disposition and determination."[29] He scored a sum of 257 runs from 6 matches at a normal of 36.71 in that season.[30]


In April 2007, Kohli made his T20 debut and completed as the most noteworthy run-getter for his group in the Between State T20 Title with 179 runs at a normal of 35.80.[31][32] In September 2008, Kohli played in Nissar Prize against SNGPL (champs of Quaid-I-Azam Prize from Pakistan) and top-scored for Delhi in the two innings, with 52 and 197.[33] The match was drawn however SNGPL won the prize on first-innings lead.[34]


India Under-19


Kolhi during Under-19 World Cup

In July 2006, Kohli was chosen in the India Under-19 crew on its visit through Britain. He found the middle value of 105 in the three-match ODI series against Britain Under-19s[35] and 49 in the three-match Test series.[36] India Under-19 proceeded to win both the series. At the finish of the visit, the India Under-19 mentor Lalchand Rajput was dazzled with Kohli.