Virat Kohli Wiki Biography, Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More

Virat Kohli Wiki biography:- Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer and former captain of the national cricket team, India, who predominately plays as a right-handed batsman for Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and for New Delhi in Indian domestic cricket. Comprehensive regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in world of all the time, Kohli having the record of most runs for scoring in both T20 International and in IPL Indian Premier League. In the year 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) named him as player of decade.

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Kohli was Born in New Delhi and trained in West Delhi Cricket Academy for started his youth cricket career with Delhi Under-15 team. Kohli started his international debut in the year 2008 and quickly became a key player in the ODI team for his chartbuster performance in cricket team. He made his Test debut in the year 2011. In 2013, Kohli reached the  No.1 Rank in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time. During 2014 T20 World Cup, he also set a record for the most runs scored in the cricket tournament.

In the year 2018, he achieved  another milestone, becoming the world’s top-ranked Test batsman in world, becoming the only Indian cricketer to hold the number one spot in all three formats of the game. His milestone continued in 2019, where he was the first player to score 20,000 international runs in single decade. In 2021, Virat Kohli take the decision to step down as the captaincy of the Indian national cricket team for T20Is, following the T20 World Cup as his captaincy and in early 2022 he stepped down as the captain of the Test team as well.

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Name	Virat Kohli
Real Name	Cheeku
Profession	Indian Cricketer
Date of Birth	5th November 1988
Day	Saturday
Age (as of 2024)	35 years
Birthplace	Delhi, India
Hometown	Delhi India
Highschool	Vishal Bharti Public School, Delhi
Educational Qualification	12th
Present Residence Address	Delhi, India
Nationality	Indian
Category	wiki

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Kohli has received many appreciation for his performances on the cricket field. He was appreciated as the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012 and has also won Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, given to the ICC Cricketer of the Year, on two times, in year 2017 and 2018. Virat also won ICC Test Player of the Year and ICC ODI Player of the Year awards in the year 2018 and becomes the first player to win both awards in the same year.

Additionally, Kohli was named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for three consecutive years, from 2016 to 2018. At the national level, Virat Kohli was esteem with the greatest award Arjuna Award in 2013 and the Padma Shri Award under the category of sports in 2017 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest sporting esteem Award in the year 2018. In the year 2016, he was also ranked as one of the world’s most popular athletes by ESPN and top valuable athlete brands by Forbes list.

Time magazine mentioned his named on its list of the top 100 most influential people in the world in the year 2018. In 2020, he was ranked 66th in the Forbes list of the top 100 highest-paid athletes in the world with estimated earnings of over $27 million. Kohli has also won Man of the Tournament award at the ICC World Twenty 20 in two times, in the year 2014 & 2016.

Playing for his franchise in Indian Premier League, he secure the Orange Cap and Most-valuable Player Award in 2016 season. Also he has won many awards most player of the match and series awards in T20 International. With the record of  40 wins in 68 Test matches, he become the India’s most successful Test captain . Virat Kohli has also having contribution in India’s successes, includes winning the World Cup 2011 and the 2013 Champions trophy.

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Virat is the highest run-scorer in Twenty20 International cricket team globally.