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Virat Kohli (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm off spin bowler, who currently captains the Indian team in Test cricket and is its vice-captain in limited overs formats. In the Indian Premier League (IPL), he captains the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

After representing Delhi at various age-group levels and domestic cricket, Kohli captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. A few months later, he made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at the age of 19 years in August 2008. Initially having played as a reserve batsman in the Indian team, he soon established himself as a regular in the middle-order in ODIs. He was part of the Indian squad that won the 2011 World Cup. Kohli played his first Test in 2011 against the West Indies at Kingston. By 2013, he shrugged off the tag of "ODI specialist" with Test hundreds in Australia and South Africa. The same year, he also reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time. He has also found success in the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament at the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh and the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India. In 2014, he became the top-ranked T20I batsman in the ICC rankings and, as of April 2016, holds the position.

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Kohli was appointed the vice-captain of the ODI team in 2012 and has since also captained the team on several occasions in the absence of regular skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. After Dhoni's Test retirement in 2014, Kohli was handed over the Test captaincy. Kohli holds numerous Indian batting records including the fastest ODI century, the fastest batsman to 5,000 ODI runs and the fastest to 10 ODI centuries. He is only the second batsman in the world to have scored 1,000 or more ODI runs for four consecutive calendar years. Kohli is the fastest batsman in the world to 1,000 runs in T20Is and also holds the record for most fifties (16) in T20Is. He holds the records of most runs in a single tournament of both the ICC World Twenty20 and the IPL.

Kohli has been the recipient of many awards such as the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012 and the BCCI's international cricketer of the year for the 2011–12 and 2014–15 seasons. In 2013, he was given the Arjuna Awardin recognition of his achievements in international cricket. SportsPro, a UK magazine, rated Kohli as the second most marketable athlete in the world in 2014.

Awards[]

  1. Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year): 2017
  2. ICC ODI Player of the Year: 2012, 2017
  3. ICC Test Team of the Year: 2017 (captain)
  4. Padma Shri: 2017
  5. ICC ODI Team of the Year: 2012, 2014, 2016 (captain), 2017
  6. Arjuna Award: 2013
  7. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna: 2018
  8. Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Decade
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Some Facts About Virat Kohli[]

  • On December 11 , 2017 Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma Got Married in Tuscany , Italy .
  • He owns a restuarant in Delhi named as "Nueva".
  • He Loves Tattoos and has a Massive number of Tattoos on his Body .
    • He wears Black Band on his wrist .
    • He is very very aggressive Player .
    • He can Sing and has sunged a song "Jo wada Kiya Hai Nibhana Toh padega" .
    • He is a Fitness Freak and do daily Exercise .
    • Virat Kohli Favourite subject was History and he hated Maths .
    • He is Scared of Hights .
    • He won ICC Player of the Year Award In 2012 .
    • He doesn't like Long conversations on Mobile .
    • He was Given Padma Shri and Arjuna Award by government of India .
      • When he was 3 Years of Old he was fascinated by Cricket .
      • In 2003 Raj Kumar invited Ashish Nehra to his Academy and Virat was given Award for higest run scorer for Delhi in 2002-2003 with 172 runs at an average of 34.40 .
      • Nick name Chikoo was given to him by his Delhi State Coach Ajit Choudhary .
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Virat Kohli Favourite things[]

  • His Favourite Cricketer is Shane Warne , Joe Root , Sachin Tendulkar , Mahendra Singh Dhoni , David Warner and Chris Gayle .
  • His Favourite Cricket Commentator is Harsha Bhogle .
  • His Favourite Musicians are Asrar and Eminem .
  • His Favourite actors are Johnny Depp , Aamir Khan and Robert Downey Jr .
  • His Favourite Actress is Katrina Kaif , Kareena Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai .
  • His Favourite is Aston Martin .
  • His Favourite Basketball Player is Kobe Byrant .



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