Virat Kohli

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Virat Kohli

Kohli in 2017

Personal information

Born 5 November 1988 (age 33)

Delhi, India

Nickname Cheeku[1]

Batting Right-handed

Bowling Right-arm medium

Role Top-order batsman

Anushka Sharma (wife)
Relations
 (m. 2017)

International information

India (2008–present)
National side

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

Last Test 26 December 2021 v South Africa

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

Last ODI 28 March 2021 v England

ODI shirt no. 18

T20I debut (cap 31) 12 June 2010 v Zimbabwe

Last T20I 8 November 2021 v Namibia

T20I shirt no. 18

Domestic team information

Years Team

2006–present Delhi

2008–present Royal Challengers Bangalore (squad no. 18)

Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 97 254 91 128
Runs scored 7,765 12,169 3,216 10,014
Batting average 50.65 59.07 52.04 51.53
100s/50s 27/27 43/62 0/29 34/35
Top score 254* 183 94* 254*
Balls bowled 175 641 146 643
Wickets 0 4 4 3
Bowling average – 166.25 49.50 112.66
5 wickets in – 0 0 0
innings
10 wickets in – 0 0 0
match
Best bowling – 1/15 1/13 1/19
Catches/stumpings 96/– 132/– 42/– 127/–
 Source: ESPNcricinfo,, 26 December 2021

Virat Kohli (Hindustani: [ʋɪˈɾɑːʈ ˈkoːɦliː] ( listen); born 5 November 1988) is an

Indian cricketer and the captain of India national cricket team in Tests.[2][3] He plays
for Delhi in domestic cricket and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier
League as a right-handed batsman. Kohli is often considered as one of the best cricket
player in the world and widely regarded as one of the greatest cricket players of all time.
[4]

Kohli made his Test debut in 2011.[5] He reached the number one spot in the ICC
rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 2013.[6] He has won Man of the
Tournament twice at the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016). He also holds the
world record of being the fastest to 23,000 international runs. [7]
Kohli has been the recipient of many awards– most notably the Sir Garfield Sobers
Trophy (ICC Men's Cricketer of the Decade): 2011–2020; Sir Garfield Sobers
Trophy (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 Leading
Cricketer in the World (2016, 2017 and 2018).[8] At the national level, he was awarded
the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma Shri under the sports category in 2017[9] and
the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the highest sporting honour in India, in 2018. [10] He
is ranked as one of the world's most famous athletes by ESPN[11] and one of the most
valuable athlete brands by Forbes.[12] In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100
most influential people in the world.[13] In 2020, he was ranked 66th in Forbes list of
the top 100 highest-paid athletes in the world for the year 2020 with estimated earnings
of over $26 million.[14]

Contents

 1Early life
 2Youth and domestic career
o 2.1Delhi
o 2.2India Under-19
o 2.3IPL
 3International career
o 3.1Early years
o 3.2Rise through the ranks
o 3.3Consistent performance in limited overs
o 3.4Ascension to ODI vice-captaincy
o 3.5Setting records
o 3.6Overseas season
o 3.7Test captaincy
o 3.8No. 1 Test team and limited-overs captaincy
o 3.92017 ICC Champions Trophy
o 3.1010,000 runs in ODIs before age of 30
o 3.11Overseas season-including Windies at home
o 3.122019 Cricket World Cup
 o 3.13Disastrous tour of New Zealand
o 3.14India's tour of Australia and home series vs. England
o 3.15World Test Championship Final and deaccession of T20 & ODI captaincy
 4Indian Premier League
 5Playing style
 6Career summary
o 6.1Test match performance
o 6.2ODI match performance
o 6.3T20I match performance
o 6.4Records
 7Awards
o 7.1National honours
o 7.2Sporting honours
o 7.3Other honours and awards
 8Outside cricket
o 8.1Personal life
o 8.2Commercial investments
o 8.3Charity and social media
 9In popular culture
 10See also
 11Notes
 12References
o 12.1Bibliography
 13External links

Early life
Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi into a Punjabi Hindu family.[15] His
father, Prem Kohli, worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli, is a
housewife.[16][17] He has an older brother, Vikash, and an older sister, Bhavna. [18]
Kohli was raised in Uttam Nagar[19] and started his schooling at Vishal Bharti Public
School.[16][20] In 1998, the West Delhi Cricket Academy was created and a nine-year-old
Kohli was part of its first intake.[19] Kohli trained at the academy under Rajkumar
Sharma[17] and also played matches at the Sumeet Dogra Academy at Vasundhara
Enclave at the same time.[19] In ninth grade, he shifted to Saviour Convent in Paschim
Vihar to help his cricket practice.[16][21] Kohli's family lived in Meera Bagh until 2015 when
they moved to Gurgaon.[22]