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Virat Kohli

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Virat Kohli

            Virat Kohli was born on 5th November 1988. Prem Kohli, Kohli’s father, was a criminal lawyer, and Saroj Kohli is a homemaker. One day, when Virat Kohli was only three years old. He picked up his bat and starts swinging it in the air and asked his father to bowl at him. At home Virat Kohli also known as the run machine and Chickoo. In his childhood, his Delhi State coach Ajit Chaudhary gave him the nickname “Chikoo.”

Kohli studied in Vishal Bharti Public School in Delhi and Savior Covent Senior Secondary school, in Delhi. Kohli got married to Bollywood Actress Anushka Sharma on 11 December 2017. Kohli and his wife Anushka blessed with a baby girl, Vamika, on 11 January 2021.

Early Age Cricket

In 1998, when west Delhi cricket academy started. Nine-year-old Virat Kohli was a member of this academy. Because the neighbours suggested that “Virat shouldn’t waste his time in gully cricket and instead join a professional club” Kohli’s father took him to the academy.

Kohli practised at the academy under Rajkumar Sharma while also competing at the Sumeet Dogra Academy in Vasundhara Enclave. Kohli’s father died of a stroke on December 18, 2006, after being severely ill for a month.

Under 19 Cricket World Cup           

Virat Kohli made his debut for the Delhi Under-15 team in the 2002-03 Polly Umrigar Trophy in October 2002. Kohli was selected to the India under-19 squad for its tour of England in July 2006. Lal Chand Rajput, India under-19 coach, was impressed with Kohli at the end of the tour.

Kohli’s average in the Test series was 58 and 41.66 in One-Day International (ODI) series against Pakistan Under-19s. At the age of 18, Kohli made his first-class debut for Delhi against Tamil Nadu in November 2006, scoring ten runs in his debut innings.

Debut In Indian Cricket Team

Virat took each game seriously. He hated sitting on the bench. In that season, he scored 257 runs in 6 matches at an average of 36.71. Kohli made his T20 debut in April 2007 and emerged as his team’s leading run-scorer in the Inter-State T20 Championship with 179 runs at an average of 35.80.

In July–August 2007 in the triangular series against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Under-19s, Kohli was the second-highest run-scorer with 146 runs from 5 matches. 

In the two-test series, he scored 244 runs at an average of 122 including a hundred and a fifty. Kohli captained the Indian team at the 2008 ICC under-19 Cricket World Cup, which was held in Malaysia from February to March 2008. Kohli led the team to a tremendous victory in the finals and lifted the cup.

Following the under-19 World Cup, Kohli was signed to a one-year youth contract with the Indian Premier League team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for $30,000 after winning the under-19 World Cup. In June 2008, Kohli was awarded the Border-Gavaskar scholarship.

The ICC Champions Trophy which was going too held in Pakistan in September 2008. Virat Kohli was part of probable Indian squad of 30 players for that trophy. In addition, he was named to India’s Emerging Players squad for the four-team Emerging Players Tournament in Australia. In that competition, he was in great form, scoring 206 runs in six matches at an average of 41.20.

            Virat Kohli made his debut in One-Day International on 18 August 2008 against Sri Lanka at Dambulla. Kohli made his debut at the age of 19. Virat Kohli made his debut in the Test series on 20 June 2011 against West Indies at the Kingston. And also Virat made his debut in the T20 series on 12 June 2010 against Zimbabwe at Harare.

Breakthrough Inning

Since both openers Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag were injured during the Sri Lanka tour, Kohli batted as a makeshift opener during the series. He was dismissed for 12. In the fourth match, he scored his first ODI half-century, 54, which helped India win the series.

In the other three matches, he had scores of 37, 25, and 31. After the Champions Trophy was postponed until 2009, Kohli was added to India A squad as a substitute for the injured Shikhar Dhawan for the unofficial Tests against Australia A in September 2008.

Due to Yuvraj Singh’s injury, Kohli batted at 4 for India in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. Kohli scored an undefeated 79 in India’s fruitful chase of 130 in the insignificant group match against the West Indies, earning him his first man of the match trophy. Kohli was a backup batsman in Australia’s seven-match home ODI series, featuring in two matches as an injury replacement.

Tendulkar was rested for the Tri-nation ODI tournament in Bangladesh in January 2010, allowing Kohli to participate in all five of India’s matches. In the following match, against Sri Lanka, Kohli finished unbeaten on 71 to help India win with a bonus point after chasing down their mark of 214 in 33 overs.

The next day, against Bangladesh, he scored his second ODI century, taking up the mark with the winning runs. Despite scoring just two runs in the final against Sri Lanka in a four-wicket Indian loss, Kohli ended the series as the top run-getter with 275 runs from five innings at an average of 91.66. Kohli batted in the three-match ODI series against South Africa at home in February and scored a 31 and 57.

Virat Kohli is the most powerful Caption of the Indian cricket team. He is the future of Indian cricket. Virat Kohli is the biggest star of the Indian cricket team. The future of Indian cricket is now in his powerful hands and there is absolutely no doubt in his intent.

Virat Kohli’s Best Records

  1. The first Indian to score a century in his World Cup debut (2011).
  2. Third Indian to score a century in two One-Day Internationals before the age of 22. (after Sachin Tendulkar & Suresh Raina).
  3. Fastest Indian to complete 1000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 runs in ODI cricket.
  4. The fastest century by an Indian (of 52 balls against Australia at Jaipur, India in 2013).
  5. Fastest to score 25 ODI tons.
  6. Fastest to reach 7,500 ODI runs.
  7. The third player to score 3 double hundreds in a calendar year after Don Bradman and Ricky Ponting.
  8. Shares the record of 4 double hundreds with the like of Don Bradman, Graeme Smith, and Michael Clarke.
  9. First Indian skipper to register 9 Test wins in a calendar year. And first Indian skipper who registered 5 consecutive test series win.
  10. After Rahul Dravid’s 1145 runs in 2011, Kohli is the first Indian to get over 1000 Test runs in a calendar year.
  11. The highest score of 235 in Tests is the highest score by an Indian captain in Tests.
  12. First Indian Test skipper to score a double century in an overseas Test. Most IPL runs in a single season (973 runs in IPL 9-2016).
  13. Most hundreds in IPL in a year (4). The fastest to 10,000 ODI runs, having done so in 205 innings.
  14. The first Indian to score 3 consecutive centuries in ODI cricket.
  15. The fastest player to 19,000 runs in international cricket.
  16. The highest run-scorer by any Indian Captain.
  17. He achieved the feat on 19 January 2020 while playing against Australia in Bengaluru.
  18. As captain, Kohli scored 11208 runs, the most by any Indian captain.
  19. He surpassed former skipper MS Dhoni, who amassed 11207 runs as captain.
  20. While Dhoni took 330 innings to score 11,208 runs, Kohli overtook him in just 199 innings as captain. Mohammad Azharuddin (8095) comes in eighth, followed by Sourav Ganguly (7643).
  21. He was given the Arjuna Award (2013) and Padma Shri Award (2017) by the Government of India.
  22. On 25 September 2018, the Government of India conferred Virat Kohli with the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
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