Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the India national team. A right-handed top-order batsman, he is regarded as one of the best contemporary batsmen in the world. He plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League and has been the team’s captain since 2013.
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Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the India national team. A right-handed top-order batsman, he is regarded as one of the best contemporary batsmen in the world. He plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League and has been the team’s captain since 2013. Kohli holds the world record for being the fastest batsman to 8,000, 9,000 and 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. He was given the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma Shri under the sports category in 2017 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honour in India, in 2018. 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 USD 26 million. He is ranked as the world’s most famous athletes by ESPN and one of most valuable athlete brands by Forbes. In 2018, Time magazine named Kohli one of 100 most influential people in theWorld. He has the best ever Test rating, ODI rating and T20I rating. Kohli captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 U19 World Cup in Malaysia. 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. In ODI matches, he has the second highest number of centuries and the highestNumber of centuries in run-chases in theworld.
He reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 2013. He also won the Man of the Tournament twice at the ICC World Twenty20 tournament in 2012 and 2013. In 2014, he was appointed the vice-captain of the ODI team 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. His father, Prem Kohli, worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli has an older brother, Vikas, and an older sister, Bhavna. He grew up in Uttam Nagar and started his schooling at Vishal Bharti Public School. In 1998, the West Delhi Cricket Academy was created and he was part of its first intake. He trained at the academy under Rajkumar Sharma and also played matches at the Sumeet Dogra Academy at Vasundhara Enclave at the same time. His early days at his academy impressed his early teachers as he was a natural in whatever he did and was ready to bat at any spot. His family lived in Meera Bagh until 2015 when they moved to Gurgaon Bagh on the outskirts of Delhi to help him with his cricket practice. In 2010, he moved to Paschim Vihar Saviour Convent Convent to help with his sport practice.
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