Virat Kohli’s Cricket
History:
Virat Kohli (born 5 November 1988)
is an Indian international cricketer who currently captains the India national team. A right-handed batsman often regarded as one of the best batsmen in the
world, Kohli was ranked eighth
in ESPN's
list of world's most famous athletes in 2016. He plays for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL), and has been the team's captain since
2013.
Born and raised in Delhi, Kohli represented the city's cricket
team at various age-group
levels before making his first-class debut in 2006. He captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia, and a few months later, 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. Having reached the
number one spot in the ICC
rankings for ODI batsmen for the
first time in 2013, Kohli also found success
in the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament twice
at the ICC
World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016). In 2014, he became the top-ranked T20I batsman in the ICC
rankings and holds the position, as of January 2017.
Kohli
was appointed 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.
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. Among
the T20I world records held by Kohli are fastest batsman to 1,000 runs, most
runs in a calendar year and most fifties in the format. He also holds the
records of most runs in a single tournament of both the World Twenty20 and the
IPL. He is the only batsman in the world to average more than 50 across all
formats of international cricket.
FULL
NAME
|
Virat Kohli
|
BORN
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November 5,
1988
Delhi |
AGE
|
28 Years, 4 Months,
10 Days
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NATIONAL
SIDE
|
India
|
BATTING
STYLE
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Right Handed
|
BOWLING
|
Right-arm medium
|
BATTING
RANK
|
Test - 3, ODI - 3,
World Cup - 3, T20I - 1
|
BOWLING
RANK
|
Test - NA, ODI - NA,
World Cup - NA, T20I - NA
|
TEAMS
PLAYED
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India, India A,
India Blue, Indian Board President's XI, India Red, North Zone, Rest of
India, Bangalore, India, Delhi
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MAN
OF THE MATCH
|
Test - 5, ODI -
22, World Cup - 1, T20I - 9, IPL - 11, CL - 3,
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CAREER
SPAN
|
[Test, 2011 - 2017],
[ODI, 2008 - 2017], [World Cup, 2011 - 2015], [T20I, 2010 - 2017], [IPL, 2008
- 2016], [CL, 2009 - 2011],
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Stats:
Records:
References:
(https://sports.ndtv.com, https://en.wikipedia.org, https://www.google.com)
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