Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricket player. He is a middle order batsman, who can also open the batting. He can also bowl right arm medium pace. He got his initial cricket training in West Delhi Cricket Academy, since its inception in 1998.
Virat Kohli played his first Test in 2011 against West Indies in Kingston. Kohli was the recipient of the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2012. Kohli first played for Delhi Under-15 team in October 2002 in the 2002–03 Polly Umrigar Trophy.
He was known to have had an affinity towards cricket from a very early age, as early as 3, according to some. He’d take up his bat, and ask his father to bowl to him. He studied at Vishal Bharti Public School and was raised in Uttam Nagar, Delhi. When he was a youngster, he played in the alleyways with the boys from the area, and the people around saw his talent even then. Everyone urged his father to not let his talent go to waste in gulley cricket and send him to a proper cricket coaching Academy.
In ninth grade, he shifted to Savier Convent in Paschim Vihar to help his cricket practice. Apart from sports, Kohli was good at academics as well, and his teachers remember him as “a bright and alert child“. Kohli’s family lived in Meera Bagh until 2015 when they moved to Gurgaon.
Virat Kohli has been linked to various high-profile women over time. He has dated Sarah Jane Dias, an Indian Model, and VJ, Sanjana, another actress for a short while. For a while he’s dated Tamanna Bhatia, Izabelle Leite, a Brazilian Model and lately he was in a quite a high profile relationship with Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma.
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Virat Kohli has been linked to various high-profile women over time. He has dated Sarah Jane Dias, an Indian Model, and VJ, Sanjana, another actress for a short while. For a while he’s dated Tamanna Bhatia, Izabelle Leite, a Brazilian Model and lately he was in a quite a high profile relationship with Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma.
Bio/Wiki
Nickname(s) - Chickoo, Run Machine
Profession - Indian Cricketer (Batsman)
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.) - in centimeters - 175 cm
in meters - 1.75 m
Eye Color - Dark Brown
Hair Colour - Black
Cricket
International debut - ODI- 18 August 2008 against Sri Lanka at Dambulla
Test - 20 June 2011 against West Indies at Kingston
T20- 12 June 2010 against Zimbabwe at Harare
Jersey Number #18 (India)
#18 ( IPL)
Record
Virat Kohli has the best ever Test, ODI and Twenty20 International rating of any Indian batsman. Kohli is a chase master and has the highest number of centuries in run-chases in the world.
He is also the fastest batsman to 10,000 and 11,000 runs in ODI cricket having achieved the milestones in 205 and 222 innings respectively.
Awards and Accolades
Virat Kohli was awarded the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012, 2-17 and 2018. In 2017
and 2018, he was awarded the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year).
In 2018, he also got the award of ICC Test Player of the Year. He was Wisden Leading
Cricketer in the World in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He got the Arjuna Award in 2013,
the Padma Shri in 2017 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2018.
Family
Virat Kohli’s father, Prem Kohli worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli, is a housewife. He has two older siblings, brother, Vikas and, sister, Bhavna. Kohli’s father
ensured that Virat got proper training in cricket and supported his cricket during his
childhood. Virat lost his father in 2006 due to a stroke. Kohli tied the knot with Bollywood
actress Anushka Sharma in 2017. In August 2020, Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma
announced that they were going to be parents soon.
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