Virat Kohli

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Virat Kohli
Personal information
Born (1988-11-05) 5 November 1988 (age 37)
New Delhi, India
NicknameChikoo or Cheeku[1][2]
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleTop-order batsman
Relations
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m. 2017)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 269)20 June 2011 v West Indies
Last Test4 March 2021 v England
ODI debut (cap 175)18 August 2008 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI28 March 2021 v England
ODI shirt no.18
T20I debut (cap 31)12 June 2010 v Zimbabwe
Last T20I20 March 2021 v England
T20I shirt no.18
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2006–presentDelhi
2008–presentRoyal Challengers Bangalore (squad no. 18)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 91 254 90 123
Runs scored 7,490 12,169 3,159 9,739
Batting average 52.38 59.07 52.65 52.92
100s/50s 27/25 43/62 0/28 34/33
Top score 254* 183 94* 254*
Balls bowled 163 641 146 631
Wickets 0 4 4 3
Bowling average – 166.25 49.50 110.00
5 wickets in innings – 0 0 0
10 wickets in match – 0 0 0
Best bowling – 1/15 1/13 1/19
Catches/stumpings 88/– 132/– 42/– 119/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo,, 28 March 2021

Virat Kohli (Hindustani: [ʋɪˈraːʈ ˈkoːɦliː] (About this soundlisten); born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the India national team. A right-handed top-order batsman, Kohli is regarded as one of the best contemporary batsmen in the world.[3] He plays for Delhi in domestic cricket and for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as captain of the franchise since 2013.

Kohli captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. After a few months later, he made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at the age of 19. Initially having played as a reserve batsman in the Indian team, he soon established himself as a regular in the ODI middle-order and was part of the squad that won the 2011 World Cup. He made his Test debut in 2011 and shrugged off the tag of "ODI specialist" by 2013 with Test hundreds in Australia and South Africa.[4] Having reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 2013,[5] Kohli also found success in the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament twice at the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016).

Kohli was appointed the vice-captain of the ODI team in 2012 and handed over the Test captaincy following Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Test retirement in 2014. In early 2017, he became the limited-overs captain as well after Dhoni stepped down from the position. In ODIs, Kohli has the second highest number of centuries and the highest number of centuries in run-chases in the world. He holds the world record for being the fastest batsman to 8,000, 9,000, 10,000, 11,000 and 12,000 runs in ODI cricket. Among Indian batsmen, Kohli has the best ever Test rating (937 points), ODI rating (911 points) and T20I rating (897 points).

Kohli has been the recipient of many awards such as the 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 in 2012, 2017 and 2018 and Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2016, 2017 and 2018.[6] He was given the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma Shri under the sports category in 2017[7] and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honour in India, in 2018.[8] Kohli is ranked as one of the world's most famous athletes by ESPN[9] and one of the most valuable athlete brands by Forbes.[10] In 2018, Time magazine named Kohli one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[11] In 2020, Kohli was ranked 66th in Forbes list of the top 100 highest paid athletes in the world for the year 2020 with estimated earnings of $26 million.[12]

Early life

Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi into a Punjabi Hindu family.[13] His father, Prem Kohli, worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli, is a housewife.[14] He has an older brother, Vikas, and an older sister, Bhavna.[15] According to his family, when he was three-years old, Kohli would pick up a cricket bat, start swinging it and ask his father to bowl at him.[16]

Kohli was raised in Uttam Nagar[17] and started his schooling at Vishal Bharti Public School. In 1998, the West Delhi Cricket Academy was created and a nine-year-old Kohli was part of its first intake.[17] Kohli's father took him to the academy after their neighbours suggested that "Virat shouldn't waste his time in gully cricket and instead join a professional club".[14] Kohli trained at the academy under Rajkumar Sharma and also played matches at the Sumeet Dogra Academy at Vasundhara Enclave at the same time.[17] Sharma recounts Kohli's early days at his academy, "He oozed talent. It was so difficult to keep him quiet. He was a natural in whatever he did and I was most impressed with his attitude. He was ready to bat at any spot, and I had to literally push him home after the training sessions. He just wouldn’t leave."[18] In ninth grade, he shifted to Saviour Convent in Paschim Vihar to help his cricket practice.[14] Apart from sports, Kohli was good at academics as well, and his teachers remember him as "a bright and alert child".[19] Kohli's family lived in Meera Bagh until 2015 when they moved to Gurgaon.[20]

Kohli's father died on 18 December 2006 due to a stroke after being bed-ridden for a month.[14] Regarding his early life, Kohli has said in an interview, "I've seen a lot in life. Losing my father at a young age, the family business not doing too well, staying in a rented place. There were tough times for the family... It's all embedded in my memory."[21] According to Kohli, his father supported his cricket training during his childhood, "My father was my biggest support. He was the one who drove me to practice every day. I miss his presence sometimes."[22]

References

  1. ↑ "How Virat Kohli got the nickname 'Chikoo' - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "Virat Kohli reveals the secret behind his nickname "Cheeku"". www.indiatvnews.com. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "India vs South Africa 2013: Post-Tendulkar era begins, Virat Kohli shines". Zee News. 18 December 2013. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named odirank
  6. ↑ http://m.wisdenindia.com/full-story.php?category=Wisden%20Cricketers’%20Almanack%202018&id=296545&
  7. ↑ "Virat Kohli receives Padma Shri Award at Rashtrapati Bhavan". The Indian Express. 31 March 2017. Archived from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Virat Kohli, Mirabai Chanu bask in Khel Ratna glory - Times of India ►". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "ESPN's World Fame 100". ESPN. Archived from the original on 13 July 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Virat Kohli ranked 7th biggest brand in world sports by Forbes". Archived from the original on 21 February 2018.
  11. ↑ Diesel, Vin. "virat kohli". Time. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
  12. ↑ "Virat Kohli only cricketer in Forbes' top 100 highest-paid athletes of 2020". Hindustan Times. 30 May 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  13. ↑ "Even today the money cricketers make is not enough: Kapil Dev in conversation with Virat Kohli". India Today. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 "Virat changed after his dad's death: Mother". Times of India. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  15. ↑ Lokendra Pratap Sahi (7 March 2011), "Being aggressive comes naturally: Virat Kohli – Young turk speaks about his likes and Dislikes", The Telegraph, Calcutta, India, archived from the original on 23 March 2012, retrieved 13 March 2012
  16. ↑ "This is Virat". The Cricket Monthly. ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 9 June 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "Cricketer Virat Kohli - India's latest sex symbol?". Indian Express. Archived from the original on 22 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  18. ↑ Lokapally (2016), p. 19.
  19. ↑ "Successful Alumni / Vishal Bharti Public School". Archived from the original on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  20. ↑ "Virat Kohli: Delhi's golden boy since 2002". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  21. ↑ "I'd give my life for those dear to me: Virat on Anushka". ABP Live. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  22. ↑ "Superstar Virat Kohli goes back to school". Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

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