About Virat Kohli


Virat Kohli conceived 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer and previous Indian national cricket crew captain. He plays for Delhi in domestic cricket and Illustrious Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League as a right-given batsman.





Kohli made his Test debut in 2011. He arrived at the main spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen without precedent for 2013. He has won Man of the Tournament two times at the ICC World Twenty20 (2014 and 2016). He also holds the world record of being the fastest to score 23,000 international professional runs.

Kohli has been the beneficiary of many awards-most strikingly the Sir Garfield Sobers Prize (ICC Men's Cricketer of the Ten years): 2011-2020; Sir Garfield Sobers Prize (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2017 and 2018; ICC Test Player of the Year (2018); ICC ODI Player of the Year (2012, 2017, 2018) and Wisden Driving Cricketer On the planet (2016, 2017 and 2018). At the national level, he was granted the Arjuna Grant in 2013, the Padma Shri under the sports class in 2017, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna grant, the highest sporting distinction in India, in 2018.





In 2016, he was positioned as one of ESPN's world's most famous athletes and one of the most important competitor brands by Forbes. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most powerful individuals on the planet. In 2020, he was positioned 66th in the Forbes list of the main 100 highest-paid athletes on the planet for the year 2020 with estimated earnings of more than $26 million.


Youth and domestic profession:

Kohli first played for the Delhi Under-15 group in October 2002 in the 2002-03 Polly Umrigar Trophy. He turned into the group captain for the 2003-04 Polly Umrigar Trophy. In late 2004, he was selected for the Delhi Under-17 group for the 2003-04 Vijay Trader Trophy. Delhi Under-17s won the 2004-05 Vijay Shipper Trophy in which Kohli finished as the highest run-scorer with 757 runs from 7 matches in two centuries. In February 2006, he made his List A presentation for Delhi against Services yet didn't get to bat.


Kohli made his first-class debut for Delhi against Tamil Nadu in November 2006, at 18 years old, he scored 10 runs in his presentation innings. He came into the spotlight in December when he chose to play for his group against Karnataka the day after his dad's demise and scored 90. He went straightforwardly to the burial service after he escaped the match. He scored a sum of 257 runs from 6 matches at a normal of 36.71 in that season.
In July 2006, Kohli was selected for the India Under-19 squad on its visit to Britain. He found the middle value of 105 in the three-match ODI series against Britain Under-19s and 49 in the three-match Test series. India Under-19 proceeded to win both series.

 In September, the India Under-19 group visited Pakistan. Kohli found the middle value of 58 in the Test series and 41.66 in the ODI series against Pakistan Under-19s. In April 2007, he made his Twenty20 presentation and finished as the highest run-getter for his group in the Between State T20 Championship with 179 runs at a normal of 35.80. In July-August 2007, the India Under-19 group visited Sri Lanka. In the three-sided series against Sri Lanka Under-19s and Bangladesh Under-19s, Kohli was the second-highest run-getter with 146 runs at a normal of 29 from 5 matches. In the two-match Test series that followed, he scored 244 runs at a normal of 122 including 100 years and a fifty.





In February-Walk 2008, Kohli captained the victorious Indian group at the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia. Batting at number 3, he scored 235 runs in 6 matches at a normal of 47 and finished as the tournament's third-highest run-getter and one of the three batsmen to score 100 in the tournament. He helped India in a three-wicket semi-last win over New Zealand Under-19s by taking 2 wickets and scoring 43 runs in the run-chase and was awarded the man of the match.


In June 2008, Kohli and his Under-19 teammates, Pradeep Sangwan and Tanmay Srivastava were awarded the Line Gavaskar scholarship. The scholarship permitted the three players to prepare for quite some time at Cricket Australia's Focal point of Greatness in Brisbane. He was also picked in the India Arising Players squad for the four-group Arising Players Tournament and scored 206 runs in six matches at a normal of 41.20.


International career:

In August 2008, Kohli was remembered for the Indian ODI squad for a visit to Sri Lanka and the Champions Trophy in Pakistan. Before the Sri Lankan visit, Kohli had played just eight List A matches. So, his selection was known as a "surprise call-up". During the Sri Lankan visit, as both first-decision openers Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag were harmed, Kohli batted as a makeshift opener all through the series. He made his international presentation, at 19 years old, in the first ODI of the visit, and was dismissed for 12. He made his first ODI in 50 years, with a score of 54, in the fourth match.

After the postponement of the Champions Trophy to 2009, Kohli was picked as a replacement for the harmed Shikhar Dhawan in India A squad for the informal Tests against Australia in September 2008. In October 2008, Kohli played for Indian Board President's XI in a four-day visit match against Australia.





Kohli, after recuperating from a minor shoulder injury, got back to the national group supplanting the harmed Gautam Gambhir in the Indian squad for the tri-series in Sri Lanka. He batted at number 4 for India in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy because of a physical issue with Yuvraj Singh. Kohli played as a reserve batsman in the seven-match home ODI series against Australia, showing up in two matches. He found a spot in the home ODI series against Sri Lanka in December 2009 and scored 27 and 54 in the first two ODIs before clearing a path for Yuvraj who recaptured fitness for the third ODI. Be that as it may, Yuvraj's finger injury repeatedly prompted his being precluded endlessly. Kohli got back to the group in the fourth ODI at Kolkata and scored his first ODI century-107 off 114 balls-sharing a 224-run partnership for the third wicket with Gambhir. India won by seven wickets to seal the series 3-1.

Tendulkar was rested for the tri-country ODI tournament in Bangladesh in January 2010, which empowered Kohli to play in every one of India's five matches. During this series, He turned out to be just the third Indian batsman to score two ODI centuries before their 22nd birthday. Kohli was greatly praised for his performances during the series. Even though Kohli made just two runs in the last against Sri Lanka in a four-wicket Indian loss, he finished as the main run-scorer of the series with 275 runs from five innings at a normal of 91.66. In the three-match ODI series at home against South Africa in February, Kohli partook in two games.


Test captaincy:

For the first Test of the Australian visit in December 2014, Dhoni was not a piece of the Indian group in Adelaide because of a physical issue, and Kohli assumed control as Test captain interestingly. Kohli scored 115 in India's first innings, turning into the fourth Indian to score 100 on his Test captaincy debut. In their second innings, India was set an objective of 364 to be scored on the fifth day. Kohli put on 185 runs for the third wicket with Murali Vijay before Vijay's dismissal, which set off a batting collapse. From 242/2, India was bowled out for 315 with Kohli's 141 off 175 balls being the top score.





Dhoni got back to the group as captain for the second match at Brisbane where Kohli scored 19 and 1 in a four-wicket rout for India. In the Melbourne Boxing Day Test, he made his personal best Test score of 169 in the first innings while sharing a 262-run partnership with Rahane, India's biggest partnership outside Asia in a decade. Kohli followed it with a score of 54 in India's second innings on the fifth day, assisting his group in withdrawing from the Test match. Dhoni reported his retirement from Test cricket after this match, and Kohli was delegated as the full-time Test captain in front of the fourth Test at Sydney. Captaining the Test group for the second time, Kohli hit 147 in the first innings of the match and turned into the first batsman in Test cricket history to score 300 in his first three innings as Test captain. He was dismissed for 46 in the second innings and the match finished in a draw. Kohli's all-out of 692 runs in four Tests was the most by any Indian batsman in a Test series in Australia.

In January 2015, India neglected to dominate a single game in the tri-country ODI series against the hosts Australia and Britain. Kohli couldn't imitate his Test success in that frame of mind, to make a two-digit score in any of the four games. Kohli's ODI structure didn't work in that frame of mind up to the World Cup, with scores of 18 and 5 in the warm-up matches against Australia and Afghanistan respectively.

In the first match of the World Cup against Pakistan at Adelaide, Kohli hit 107 out of 126 balls. For his thump, he was awarded the man of the match award. Kohli also turned into the first Indian batsman to score 100 years against Pakistan in a World Cup match. He was dismissed for 46 in India's second match against South Africa. India proceeded to register a 130-run triumph in the match. India batted second in their leftover four gathering matches in which Kohli scored 33*, 33, 44*, and 38 against UAE, West Indies, Ireland, and Zimbabwe respectively. India proceeded to secure wins in these four fixtures and top the Pool B points with an undefeated record. In India's 109-run triumph in the quarter-last over Bangladesh, Kohli was dismissed by Rubel Hossain for 3, edging the ball to the wicketkeeper. India was wiped out in the semi-last by Australia at Melbourne, where Kohli was dismissed for 1 off 13 balls, top-edging a short-pitched conveyance from Mitchell Johnson.

Kohli had a slump in structure when India visited Bangladesh in June 2015. He contributed just 14 in the oddball Test which finished in a draw and averaged16.33 in the ODI series which Bangladesh won 2-1. Kohli finished his streak of low scores by scoring his eleventh Test hundred in the first Test of the Sri Lankan visit which India lost. India won the following two matches to seal the series 2-1, Kohli's first series win as Test captain and India's first away Test series win in four years.

During South Africa's visit to India, Kohli turned into the fastest batsman on the planet to make 1,000 runs in T20I cricket, arriving at the milestone in his 27th innings. In the ODI series, he made hundred years in the fourth ODI at Chennai that assisted India with attracting level the series. India lost the series after a loss in the last ODI and Kohli finished the series with a normal of 49. India returned to take down the highest-level South African group 3-0 in the four-match Test series under Kohli's captaincy and move to the number two position on the ICC Test rankings. Virat scored a sum of 200 runs in the series at 33.33.

Virat Kohli is an international cricketer who presently captains the Indian national group. He was positioned eighth on ESPN's list of the world's most famous athletes in 2016.



Brought into the world in Delhi, Kohli shot to acclaim as the Under-19 skipper, who drove India to triumph at the 2008 Junior World Cup in Malaysia. He got an open door in the 2008 ODI as an opener in Srilanka when both Sachin Tendulkar and Virendra Sehwag were rested because of injury. He made his Test debut in 2011 and was an area of the planet Cup 2011 winning group.


In the year 2013, Kohli arrived at the main spot in the ICC positioning for ODI batsmen interestingly. After Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Test retirement in 2014, Kohli was designated Test captain.


In the year 2017, Kohli turned into the restricted overs captain as well after MS Dhoni stepped down from the position.


The cricketer holds numerous Indian batting records including the fastest ODI century, the fastest batsman to score 5,000 ODI runs, and the fastest to 10 ODI centuries. In February 2018, Kohli scored his 34th ODI century and second of the series against South Africa.