pronunciation ; born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. He is the current captain of the Indian team inTest cricket and 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, Kohli made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at the age of 19 years on 18 August 2008.[2] 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.[3] The same year, he also reached the number one spot in the ICC rankingsfor ODI batsmen for the first time.[4] He has also found success in the Twenty20format, winning the Man of the Tournament at the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. Later that year, he became the top-ranked T20I batsman in the ICC rankings.[5]
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.[6] In 2015, he became the fastest batsman in the world to 1,000 runs in T20Is.
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 Award in recognition of his achievements in international cricket.[7] SportsPro, a UK magazine, rated Kohli as the second most marketable athlete in the world in 2014.[8] He is also a co-owner of the ISLteam FC Goa and the IPTL franchiseUAE Royals.
Early life
Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi in a Punjabi family.[9][10]His father, Prem Kohli, worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli, is a housewife.[11] He has an elder brother, Vikash, and an elder sister, Bhavna.[12] 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.[13]
Kohli was raised in Uttam Nagar[14] and started his schooling at Vishal Bharti Public School. In 1998, the West Delhi Cricket Academy was created, and Kohli, a nine-year-old, was part of its first intake.[14] Kohli's father took him to the academy after their neighbors suggested that "Virat shouldn't waste his time in gully cricket and instead join a professional club".[11] Kohli trained at the academy under Rajkumar Sharmaand also played matches at the Sumit Dogra Academy near Noida at the same time.[14] In ninth grade, he shifted to Savier Convent in Paschim Vihar to help his cricket practice.[11] Apart from sports, Kohli was good at academics as well, and his teachers remember him as "a bright and alert child".[15]
Kohli's father died on 18 December 2006 due to brain stroke after being bed-ridden for a month.[11] 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."[16]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 everyday. I miss his presence sometimes."[17]
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