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What makes Virat Kohli the undisputed monarch of the cricket world today is not his iconic status in the sports hierarchy but that the highest praise comes from the opposition camp and past greats. However, his family didn't always have it good. No stranger to loss, Kohli's biggest support both on and off the field – his father, succumbed to a cerebral stroke when he was very young. In a fitting tribute that would've made his old man proud, Kohli returned to continue an innings just a few hours after his father passed away. 'He was the one who drove me to practice every day,' the captain of the Indian Test team recalls with characteristic humility and grace. Widely travelled sports journalist Vijay Lokapally goes on to recount happier times on the journey of Virat's rapid rise to international stardom, an account punctuated with little-known stories by his fellow players, coaches and intimates. At 27, he has already been the recipient of countless accolades including the Arjuna Award, the title of BCCI's 'international cricketer of the Year' as well as the ICC's 'ODI Player of the Year', but for Kohli it's not about the money or the fame, or the roar of the crowds or t...

Chapter List (26 chapters):

• Chapter 1: Cover
• Chapter 2: Half Title
• Chapter 3: Title Page
• Chapter 4: Copyright
• Chapter 5: Dedication
• Chapter 6: Contents
• Chapter 7: Foreword
• Chapter 8: Acknowledgements
• Chapter 9: Introduction
• Chapter 10: Prologue
• Chapter 11: 1. The Early Years
• Chapter 12: 2. Making a Mark in Junior Cricket
• Chapter 13: 3. Boy to Man
• Chapter 14: 4. The Teachers’ Day Gift
• Chapter 15: 5. One-Day Debut and Career
• Chapter 16: 6. Ready for Tests
• Chapter 17: 7. Virat Loves Australia
• Chapter 18: 8. Failure in England
• Chapter 19: 9. Excelling in Tests
• Chapter 20: 10. The IPL Journey
• Chapter 21: 11. Virat and One-Day Cricket
• Chapter 22: 12. A Committed Cricketer
• Chapter 23: 13. Leadership
• Chapter 24: 14. The World at His Feet
• Chapter 25: 15. The Icon
• Chapter 26: Virat Kohli in Facts and Figures

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Exclusive: Virat Kohli – ‘I understand that life is much larger than any of this’

In a rare and exclusive one-to-one interview, Virat Kohli sat down with Wisden Cricket Monthly magazine editor Jo Harman to discuss his first 10 years as an international cricketer, what life outside of the game looks like for a 21st-century deity and the future of “the most beautiful format”.

This article originally appeared in the September 2018 issue of  Wisden Cricket Monthly .  Click here  to subscribe to the magazine

It’s four years since I first approached Virat Kohli’s team for a sit-down interview with the most in-demand cricketer in the world and after several false leads and probably more than a hundred emails, India’s captain is finally ready and waiting. Well, almost.

As I stand in a corridor outside a hotel room at the Taj Hotel in St James’ Court, London, waiting to be summoned, Kohli has some filming to finish up first. He is the subject of a National Geographic documentary as part of a new series in which scientists and psychoanalysts explore the lives of five Indian national icons and attempt to decipher whether geniuses are born or made. Watching Kohli’s 149 at Edgbaston two weeks later, it feels a pertinent question.

Mike Brearley believes genius requires a combination of the “instinctual” with “passionate devotion and hard work” and Kohli’s innings at Edgbaston, his 22nd Test century three months before his 30th birthday, was a perfect marriage of the two.

With Kohli now having completed 10 years as an international cricketer, there is little doubt that we are watching a genius at work, and one who transcends his sport. He was recently ranked No.11 in the World Fame 100, ESPN’s annual list of the most eminent athletes, and was the only cricketer in the Forbes Top 100 of the world’s highest-paid sportspeople last year, with estimated earnings of $24million.

Those numbers are still swirling around my head as my phone buzzes and I’m asked to enter. Kohli is ready.

In the UK we find it hard to comprehend the level of attention and adulation that Indian cricketers, and you in particular, receive in your home country. How do you cope with it?

When England came to India last, Alastair [Cook] asked me the same. Even players who’ve toured many times, it still amazes them how much passion and attention people have towards cricket in India. I said, ‘You just get used to it’. There is literally no other option. You cannot avoid it. I don’t try and fight it anymore. I’ve tried to do that in the past, where I wanted people to understand to an extent what an individual wants in terms of space and just to be able to have a normal life… for a bit! But that is very, very difficult to expect when you have so many people wanting to see you or meet you or are inspired by you. So I’ve come to terms with the fact that it’s just something you have to accept.

Does it help that your wife Anushka [Sharma, the Bollywood actress and film producer] understands what it’s like to be in the public eye?

That was one of the reasons why we got along so well, to be able to understand each other’s mindset and the demands of being in such a position. And also the fact that we are so similar in terms of the backgrounds we have. People do not understand us at all. They think we live a fairytale life and things are only of royal standards, but in reality we are really normal people. We are in the public eye so it seems too far-fetched for the public to connect with, but we lead a very simple life at home. And that’s how we like to live. We do something that is in the public eye but we never chose to be recognised in this way.

You’re one of the most influential figures in India essentially because, on a most basic level, you’re exceptionally good at hitting a cricket ball. Is that difficult to get your head around?

Ever since I’ve been with my wife we understand the responsibility that we have as known people back home. It’s not only in terms of inspiring people through what I do or she does, but how we portray ourselves as a couple as well, and to set the right example there – to teach people the right things to follow and not worry too much about what people are going to say, because that can be a massive factor back home. We take this as a responsibility of being in the position that we are. Even in cricket now, for me it’s not about what I want to achieve as a cricketer, it’s more to do with how I can inspire the next lot of players. I feel that is more of a responsibility now, and not merely going on the park and hitting a ball.

You play so much cricket, rarely missing matches and captaining India in all three formats. Psychologically, how do you stay on top of things and balance that with other aspects of your life?

I think there’s no limit to what you can do, as long as you’re happy doing it. I don’t believe that if you are busy in life in general that your sport is going to get compromised. A 24-hour day is a long time to be able to do things. Spending time at home is something we really look forward to, then my sport is my priority as well, but apart from that I do a lot of commercials, a lot of businesses as well, which I’m actively involved in. It gives me a sense of working towards something all the time. I don’t feel the burden at all, to be honest. I love having the opportunity to be so busy in life.

How do you relax outside of cricket?

We really enjoy our time when we come to other countries. We get to walk around and that’s very liberating, to be able to enjoy normal stuff like going out for breakfast or to coffee shops, because we don’t walk at all back home – it’s only getting out of our house, into our car and going wherever we want to go, then back into our car to go home. We love pets, so if we see dogs around we play with them. We can literally do whatever we want in terms of buying things or having something but to be able to enjoy and be grateful about life every day is something that we take very seriously.

On August 18, 2008, five months after captaining his country to victory at the Under 19 World Cup in Malaysia, the pudgy teenager touted as ‘the next Sachin’ walked out to open the batting in his first senior international appearance, an ODI in Dambulla, Sri Lanka. It was an inauspicious start for the 19-year-old who scored 12 from 33 balls in a comprehensive defeat.

He would have to wait more than a year for his first ODI century and his ascent to the Test team was considerably slower. Not until a gutsy hundred from No.6 against Australia at Adelaide in January 2012 was his place in the five-day side secured. In the period since, only Steve Smith can match his 23 Test centuries, while Kohli’s limited-overs record is unparalleled in this or any other era.

He has previously described the conclusion of a disappointing 2012 IPL campaign as a watershed moment when he discovered his now-famous work ethic and fitness regime – factors that have been pivotal in his rise to become the best pound-for-pound batsman in the world.

“Kohli evolved before our eyes, beginning as a talented batsman with rough edges but with the enormous good fortune to be playing in a team with Tendulkar, Laxman, Dravid and Sehwag,” says Wisden India editor Suresh Menon. “He absorbed important lessons from each of them. A quick learner, Kohli found his uniqueness in assimilating the best practices of others. And in adding his own flavour to the package.”

How quickly have the last 10 years gone by?

I’m close to 10,000 ODI runs and I still can’t believe it; I walk out and I feel like I’m still a club cricketer playing my first match. I still have to get that first run. And I’m so happy and grateful that I still have that feeling and I don’t think, ‘Oh, I’ve done everything’. I still have that respect for the game that I had in my first match. I know that when that feeling dies off it’s going to be time. But the fact that it has gone on for so long, and it has made me work hard on my game – continuously, relentlessly – is so wonderful to experience.

[breakout]I really laugh at a lot of the things I did when I was younger but I’m proud that I did not change my ways because I was always going to be who I am and not change for the world or for anyone else[/breakout]

How do you reflect on your younger self? Are there moments you look back on where you think, ‘I wish I hadn’t done that!’?

Yeah, the one thing I remember most is when I’d had enough of the Australian crowd at Sydney [in 2012] and I just decided to flick a [middle] finger at them. ‘I’m so cool’. The match referee [Ranjan Madugalle] called me to his room the next day and I’m like, ‘What’s wrong?’. He said, ‘What happened at the boundary yesterday?’. I said, ‘Nothing, it was a bit of banter’. Then he threw the newspaper in front of me and there was this big image of me flicking on the front page and I said, ‘I’m so sorry, please don’t ban me!’. I got away with that one. He was a nice guy, he understood I was young and these things happen. I really laugh at a lot of the things I did when I was younger but I’m proud that I did not change my ways because I was always going to be who I am and not change for the world or for anyone else. I was pretty happy with who I was.

Did anyone have to pull you into line in your early career?

There was my coach, Rajkumar Sharma, who was always looking at things from the outside and he understood me the most, after my family, because I had interacted him so much over the years. My family as well. Every time they felt like I was not on the right path they told me. But my coach was the one that was very stern with me. If I was doing something wrong he would make sure that he got that across, one way or the other. He was the only person I was scared of when I was growing up. I went into his academy when I was nine and even now I still speak to him about my game.

Yuvraj Singh said that when he tried to give you advice as a youngster you didn’t listen because you were so distracted by all the other things around you. Do you recognise that version of yourself?

Yeah, definitely. I look forward to guiding the young guys in the team to not make the same mistakes that probably I made when I was their age because I want them to have three more years of quality cricket compared to going up and down, struggling here and there and then finally finding their feet. If I see someone making the same mistakes that I committed and I cannot correct them, then it’s my failure. If I choose to stay quiet I’m not really doing my job. You don’t want to suffocate anyone but the mistakes I made early in my career, as Yuvraj rightly pointed out, I would not like to see youngsters make them more than once, because that’s just wasting such an important phase of their lives and careers.

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Who are the people you’ve most enjoyed speaking to and learnt the most from during your career?

Gary Kirsten and Duncan Fletcher [former India coaches] are probably the two people I’ve enjoyed discussing cricket with the most. Gary was all about the feel of the game – how you feel as a player and how confident you are mentally. Those small things really matter because I know how to strike a cricket ball but how to get into a zone where I am confident of striking the cricket ball is something I would discuss with Gary. And the same with Duncan as well. To be able to see the game in a particular manner is so much more important than to be able to hit that cover drive.

Michael Vaughan told Wisden Cricket Monthly that no person has done more for English cricket over the last 20 years than Duncan Fletcher. He’s clearly had a big influence on a lot of players.

Duncan has such a great understanding of what a particular player needs to correct his game. He would stand in front of me when I was batting in the nets and tell me, ‘Open your shoulder two inches’. Then I would do that and my game would open up and I would be like, ‘What was that!?’. It was that small. If he told me that then he wouldn’t apply it to Shikhar Dhawan or MS [Dhoni] or anyone else. That was for my game. That’s how well he understood individual players.

India were incredibly impressive as they won the Under 19 World Cup earlier this year – intimidatingly so if you support any other country. How exciting is it to see the next generation of talent coming through?

I saw some of these guys in the IPL as well and I was stunned by some of the talent. You have two guys bowling almost 150 clicks and someone like Prithvi Shaw playing shots that I couldn’t even imagine at my age, hitting some of the fastest bowlers in the world for sixes at the IPL that were quite astonishing. I believe that you have to be accepting and comfortable with the fact that the next generation is always going to be better, and you have to bring in these guys accordingly and unleash them at this level. I’m not someone who will wait for people to go through the whole grind and see how they go in four, five or six years, because you might just lose out on the best years of their life.

Do you make a point of taking the brightest talents aside to tell them that you see a big future for them in the Indian team?

In my initial years when someone around me would say ‘You’ve been looked at to play for the Indian cricket team’ I would lose perspective about what needs to happen right now, and I don’t want that to happen with them. But I’m very confident these guys will make it to the top level very, very soon and some of the guys are mature beyond their years.

Have you watched previous Indian captains and picked up aspects of their leadership?

Not really anyone before MS. I was always someone who kept talking to him about the game so even when I was really young, before I was made vice-captain, I would give him my suggestions. Not in a way that I thought I knew better but I felt at certain moments I could probably see this thing that someone else might not be able to pick up. So why not go and express myself? I love thinking about the game and that’s why I enjoy captaincy so much and I enjoy chasing totals so much – I love using my brain to figure out what needs to be done during the game. I’ve learned the most from MS, standing so close to him at slip so many times and just observing him at close quarters.

How would you characterise your captaincy?

I think every captain flushes in the mindset that he has himself to his team and I’ve always played my cricket with positivity. When I do well or I don’t do well, it’s not about thinking twice, only going forward. Results are a bi-product of that mindset. I believe in giving total freedom to the guys to go out there and play the way they want to, and to be fearless. You can make mistakes by being positive, lack of execution is fine, but hesitation is something that I cannot relate to myself so I would never want the players to play that way.

[breakout]If you really understand the sport, if you really love the sport, you understand Test cricket and you understand how exciting it is[/breakout]

What have been the biggest challenges during your time as captain?

Not many. I’ve really enjoyed myself so far. I just wanted to play cricket at this level and now I’ve been given such an honour to captain my country, I cannot complain at all. It allows me to set the right example and work hard, so I can expect my teammates to work as hard. It has only helped me grow as a person and make me understand the game better and what needs to be done at different points of the game, or in life in general. You learn so many things about what are controllables, what are not controllables, respecting losses and working hard towards victory. When decision-making is on you, you need to be very aware of what you are doing and that makes you aware as a person in general.

How sustainable is it for you to captain India in all three formats?

I love it. It’s such a short span in my life. I’m not someone who’s ever looked for a comfort zone. I don’t think there is an option of giving up in life, especially when you have such a short career. Think about it… there are 1.3 billion people back home and only 16-20 people in that pool regularly play for their country. On top of that you’re on top of the pile, and if I complain there, I really have to be ungrateful about everything that’s been given to me.

By playing and talking about Test cricket with such passion, you’ve helped to give the format a real shot in the arm. Do you have concerns for its future though?

In a few countries, yes. It all depends on the awareness of people who watch the game. If you take a country like South Africa or Australia or England, they have big crowds for Test matches because people understand the sport. It’s literally living life over five days. There are so many ups and downs and even when you’ve done well you’ve got to keep coming back and doing it all over again. There are no guarantees in life either. If you’ve had a good day it doesn’t mean that the next day is going to be good automatically. You’ve got to work towards it. Or if you’ve had a bad day there’s no option of staying at home. I think that if you really understand the sport, if you really love the sport, you understand Test cricket and you understand how exciting it is. I cannot explain to you the job satisfaction that you get when you do well in Test cricket, because you know how demanding it is. It’s the most beautiful format of the game. I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere. I don’t even see it getting compressed to four days.

You see four-day Test matches as a backward step?

Definitely. It should not be tinkered with.

Are you in favour of the forthcoming Test Championship?

I think that is going to give a huge push to Test cricket. It makes every series more competitive, and there’s going to be ups and downs throughout the Championship, which I really look forward to. The teams that love playing Test cricket are always going to be passionate about it. And it also depends on the system you have back home as well. If you’re not going to give more importance to first-class cricket, then people are going to lose motivation to play the longest format of the game. And with the T20 format coming in I think there’s far greater responsibility on all the cricket boards across the world to treat first-class cricket really well, because if the facilities and the standard goes up, then the motivation always stays. You don’t want players to get into that mindset where they’re finding the easy way out.

India haven’t played a Test match against Pakistan during your career. Do you think that will change, and is it a match you’d like to play in given the opportunity?

They have such a quality bowling attack that obviously as a batsman I would love to face them. It could happen but it’s not something that I have any aspirations of or something that I really want badly. I don’t pinpoint things anymore. If you asked me 10 years ago whether I would be here in my life, be having a career like I’ve had, I wouldn’t even dream of it. So I am very happy with how life is going and I’m pretty happy taking every day and series as it comes.

Kohli speaks with such verve and feeling about the game, and has such strong views on its future, that before we wrap up I ask, slightly tongue in cheek, whether he’d consider a job at the ICC or BCCI when he calls time on his playing career. He laughs. A lot.

“The reason I do so many things at one time is to not be in a position of having to do something in life after I’m done,” he says. “I want to be able to spend time with my family, give a good life to my kids, travel with my wife and just enjoy life for a few years. I don’t want to think about anything else. I will have done this for too long to be able to come back immediately into the game. If there are any changes in the system required, I would always take that step for cricketers, not just because I want to be seen on TV. I’ve had enough of that. I get that on a daily basis.

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“I understand that life is much larger than any of this and before I started to play cricket life was there, and it’s going to continue after. I just want to be able to enjoy everything and not have cricket as the only identity in my life and have nothing else to look forward to or have any knowledge of. I want to keep learning.”

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Biography Of Virat Kohli | Free PDF Download

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• Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi into a Punjabi family.His father, Prem Kohli , worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli , is a housewife.
• He has an older brother, Vikas, and an older sister, Bhavna. 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.
• Kohli was raised in Uttam Nagar 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. Kohli trained at the academy under Rajkumar Sharma.
• Kohli’s father died on 18 December 2006 due to a stroke after being bed-ridden for a month .

DOMESTIC CAREER

• Kohli first played for Delhi Under-15 team in October 2002 in the 2002–03 Polly Umrigar Trophy. He became the captain of the team for the 2003–04 Polly Umrigar Trophy.
• In late 2004, he was selected in the Delhi Under-17 team for the 2003–04 Vijay Merchant Trophy. He scored 470 runs in four matches at an average of 117.50 with two hundreds and top-score of 251*.
• Kohli captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia. Batting at number 3, he scored 235 runs in 6 matches at an average of 47 and finished as the tournament’s third-highest run-getter

INTERNATIONAL CAREER

• Following the Under-19 World Cup, Kohli was bought by the Indian Premier League franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore for $30,000 on a youth contract.
• In August 2008, Kohli was included in the Indian ODI squad for tour of Sri Lanka and the Champions Trophy in Pakistan. Prior to the Sri Lankan tour, Kohli had played only eight List A matches
• He made his international debut, at the age of 19, in the first ODI of the tour and was dismissed for 12.He made his first ODI half century, a score of 54, in the fourth match which helped India win the series He had scores of 37, 25 and 31 in the other three matches
• Kohli returned to the national team replacing the injured Gautam Gambhir in the Indian squad for the tri-series in Sri Lanka. He batted at number 4 for India in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy because of an injury to Yuvraj Singh.
• In the inconsequential group match against the West Indies, Kohli scored an unbeaten 79 in India’s successful chase of 130 and won his first man of the match awar.
• Kohli returned to the team in the fourth ODI at Kolkata and scored his first ODI century–107 off 111 ball. Tendulkar was rested for the tri-nation ODI tournament in Bangladesh in January 2010, which enabled Kohli to play in each of India’s five matches
• Kohli made 168 runs at 42.00 including two fifties against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe in May–June 2010. During the series, Kohli became the fastest Indian batsman to reach 1,000 runs in ODI cricket
• He was India’s leading run-scorer in ODIs in 2010, with 995 runs from 25 matches at an average of 47.38 including three centuries.
• Kohli was India’s leading run-getter in the five-match ODI series of the South African tour in January 2011, with 193 runs at an average of 48.25 including two fifties, both in Indian defeats
• Kohli played in every match of India’s successful World Cup campaign. He scored an unbeaten 100, his fifth ODI century, in the first match against Bangladesh and became the first Indian batsman to score a century on World Cup debut.
• In the final against Sri Lanka at Mumbai, he scored 35, sharing an 83-run partnership with Gambhir for the third wicket after India had lost both openers within the seventh over chasing 275.

MATCH WINNER

• In October 2011, Kohli was the leading run-scorer of the five-match home ODI series against England which India won 5–0.
• In the first seven matches of the Commonwealth Bank triangular series against hosts Australia and Sri Lanka, Kohli made two fifties–77 at Perth and 66 at Brisbane–both against Sri Lanka
• Being set a target of 321 by Sri Lanka, Kohli came to the crease with India’s score at 86/2 and went on to score 133 not out from 86 balls to take India to a comfortable win with 13 overs to spare.
• Kohli was appointed the vice-captain for the 2012 Asia Cup in Bangladesh. Kohli was in fine form during the tournament, finishing as the leading run-scorer with 357 runs at an average of 119.
• In the final group stage match against Pakistan, he scored a personal best 183 off 148 balls, his 11th ODI century.
• Many senior players including Dhoni were rested for the five-match ODI tour of Zimbabwe in July 2013, with Kohli being appointed captain for an entire series for the first time.
• Dhoni returned from injury to captain the team for 2014 ICC World Twenty20 and Kohli was named vice-captain.
• Kohli had made a total of 319 runs in the tournament at an average of 106.33, a record for most runs by an individual batsman in a single World Twenty20 tournament, for which he won the Man of the Tournament award.
• India conceded a 3–1 defeat in the five-match Test series against England despite leading it 1–0 after the first two Tests. Kohli fared poorly in the series averaging just 13.40 in 10 innings with a top score of 39 in 2014.
• For the first Test of the Australian tour in December 2014, Dhoni was not part of the Indian team at Adelaide due to an injury, and Kohli took the reins as Test captain for the first time.Kohli scored 115 in India’s first innings, becoming the fourth Indian to score a hundred on Test captaincy debut.
• In the first match of the World Cup against Pakistan at Adelaide, Kohli hit 107 in 126 balls, sharing 100-plus partnerships with both Dhawan and Raina, to help India set a total of 300 and win the match by 76 runs.
• India was eliminated in the semi-final by Australia at Melbourne, where Kohli was dismissed for 1 off 13 balls,
• During South Africa’s tour of India, Kohli became the fastest batsman in the world to make 1,000 runs in T20I cricket.
• Virat Kohli got the chance to captain in an ICC tournament for the first time in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. In the semi-final against Bangladesh, Kohli scored 96*, thus becoming the fastest batsman, in terms of innings, to reach 8,000 runs in ODIs in 175 innings.
• In the captaincy of Virat Kohli, the Indian cricket team reached the finals, but lost to Pakistan Cricket team by 180 runs.
• He followed it up with ODI centuries against the West Indies and Sri Lanka in consecutive series, In October 2017, he was adjourned the ODI player of the series against New Zealand for scoring two ODI centuries, during the course of which he made a new record for the most runs (8,888), best average (55.55) and highest number of centuries (31) for any batsman when completing 200 ODIs
• During ODI series against West Indies in 2018, Kohli became the 12th batsman and fastest player to score 10,000 ODI runs.
• He surpassed the milestone with 205 innings which is 54 innings less than the next quickest to the landmark, Sachin Tendulkar.
• In the course he scored his 37th ODI century. Kohli’s average after crossing 10,000 is 59.62, which is also the best average among the 10,000 club members.On 27 October, after scoring his 38th ODI century
• On 16 December 2018 in  Border Gavaskar Trophy, Kohli scored his 25th test hundred in Perth. His knock of 123 was his 6th hundred in three tours to Australia making him the only Indian to score 6 test hundreds in Australia after Sachin Tendulkar.

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Virat Kohli Biography: Birth, Age, Family, Education, Cricket Career, Net Worth and More

Through this article, we take a look at his birth, age, parents, education, wife, daughter, career, stats, net worth, and more. .

Virat Kohli Biography:  Virat Kohli stepped down as the Test captain of Team India after India lost the Test series against South Africa. He announced his decision through social media on January 15. 

Earlier in 2021, Kohli announced to step down as India's T20I captain after the T20 World Cup 2021. Rohit Sharma replaced him as India's white-ball captain in December 2021.

Virat Kohli Biography

Virat Kohli Biography: Birth, Age, Family and Education 

Virat kohli cricket career.

When West Delhi Cricket Academy was created in 1998, Kohli was part of its first batch and received training under Rajkumar Sharma.

Kohli made his cricket debut in October 2002 with the Delhi Under-15 team in the 2002-03 Polly Umrigar Trophy and lead the team for the next trophy. He was later selected in the Delhi Under-17 team for the 2003-04 Vijay Merchant Trophy where he finished as the highest run-scorer. 

At the age of 18, Kohli made his first-class debut for Delhi against Tamil Nadu wherein he scored 10 runs. In July 2006, he made his debut in the Under-19 team during India's tour of England. India won both ODI and Test series. Kohli made his T20 debut next year and emerged as the highest run-scorer in the Inter-State T20 Championship with 179 runs. 

The year 2008 was a life-changing year for Kohli. First, he captained the Under-19 Cricket World Cup-winning team. Second, he was bought by RCB for $30,000 on a youth contract for IPL. Third, he made his international debut. 

After recovering from a minor injury, Kohli replaced Gambhir for the tri-series in Sri Lanka and batter at no. 4 in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy as Yuvraj Singh was recovering from an injury. 

For the tri-nation ODI tournament in Bangladesh in 2010, Tendulkar was rested, thereby enabling Kohli to play in each match. Due to his phenomenal performance in Bangladesh, he was praised by the then captain MS Dhoni. 

Kohli was part of the World Cup-winning team in 2011 and became the first Indian batsman to score a century on World Cup debut. 

Kohli made his Test debut against West Indies at Kingston and performed poorly in the series, amassing just 76 runs in five innings. In 2015, he became the first Indian batsman to score a century against Pakistan in a World Cup match.

During South Africa's tour of India, he became the fastest batsman in the world to make 1,000 runs in T20I cricket, achieving the feat in his 27th innings.

During the ODI tour of Australia, Kohli emerged as the fastest batsman in the world to cross the 7000-run mark in ODIs, and the fastest to score 25 centuries. 

During the 3 match Test series against Sri Lanka at home in 2017, he became the first batsman to score six double hundreds as a captain. That year, he scored a total of 2818 international runs, the third-highest by an Indian in a calendar year and highest ever by an Indian player. 

In August 2018, he ranked no. 1 in the ICC Test rankings. With this, he became the seventh Indian batter to achieve this milestone. He became the first Indian, first captain and tenth overall to hit three successive centuries in ODIs in October 2018. 

For the tri-series in Zimbabwe in 2010, Raina was named captain while Kohli was made vice-captain. During this, he emerged as the fastest Indian batsman to reach 1,000 ODI runs. 

He was appointed as vice-captain for the 2012 Asia Cup due to his excellent performance in Australia. 

Kohli captained the 2013 West Indies tri-series winning team after Dhoni injured himself during the match. He also captained a five-match ODI tour of Zimbabwe, which India won by 5-0, their first in any away ODI series. 

He was named vice-captain for the 2014 ICC World T20 Competition where India emerged as the runner ups and Kohli as Man of the Tournament as he amassed 319 runs in the tournament. 

He led India in the five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka which India won by 5-0. It was the second whitewash under his captaincy and fourth in India's ODI history. 

He led India in the first Test of the Australian tour and scored 115 runs in the first innings, thereby becoming the fourth Indian to score a hundred on his Test captaincy debut. Dhoni announced his retirement from Test cricket at the conclusion of the third match between India and Australia, and Kohli was appointed as the full-time Test captain ahead of the fourth Test at Sydney.

At Sydney, Kohli scored 147 in the first innings and became the first batter in the Test cricket history to score three hundred in his first three innings as Test captain. He was named as captain of the 'Team of the Tournament' for the 2016 World Twenty20 by the ICC. 

He captained India in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. India entered the finals but lost to Pakistan. Kohli also captained the 2019 Cricket World Cup where India failed to reach the finals after losing the semi-final match against New Zealand. India's first whitewash under Kohli's captaincy was India's tour of New Zealand in 2020. 

India lost the 2021 ICC World Test Championship Final to New Zealand, Kohli's third defeat as captain in knockouts and finals of ICC tournaments. India failed to make it through the semi-finals in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021 under Kohli's captaincy. 

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Virat Kohli Wife and Daughter

In 2013, he started dating Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma. The couple soon earned the nickname Virushka. Virat and Anuskha tied the knot in an intimate ceremony on 11 December 2017 in Florence, Italy. The couple gave birth to a daughter named Vamika. 

Virat Kohli Awards and Honours

National Honours

Virat Kohli won Arjuna Award in 2013, Padma Shri in 2017 and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2018. 

Sports Honours

1- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Men's Cricketer of the Decade) in 2011–2020

2- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2017

3- ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012

4- ICC Test Player of the Year in 2018

5- ICC ODI Team of the Year in 2012, 2014, 2016 (captain), 2017 (captain), 2018 (captain), 2019 (captain)

6- ICC Test Team of the Year in 2017 (captain), 2018 (captain), 2019 (captain)

7- ICC Spirit of Cricket in 2019

8- ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Decade in 2011–2020

9- ICC Men's Test Team of the Decade in 2011–2020 (captain)

10- ICC Men's ODI Team of the Decade in 2011–2020

11- ICC Men's T20I Team of the Decade in 2011–2020

12- Polly Umrigar Award for International Cricketer of the Year in 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18

13- Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2016, 2017, 2018

14- CEAT International Cricketer of the Year in 2011–12, 2013–14, 2018–19

15- Barmy Army - International Player of Year in 2017, 2018

Other honours and awards

1- People's Choice Awards India For Favourite Sportsperson in 2012

2- CNN-News18 Indian of the Year in 2017

3- DDCA renamed a stand after him at Arun Jaitley stadium, Delhi.

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Driven: The Virat Kohli Story - Biography on India's Test skipper launched

In the book vijay lokapally recounts life-altering tales and anecdotes on the journey of virat's rapid rise to international stardom..

New Delhi, Oct 20: A book penning the life of India's Test skipper Virat Kohli has been launched here in the presence of several high-profile cricketing personalities.

Virat Kohli becomes 1st Indian captain to score two Test doubles The book, named "Driven: The Virat Kohli Story" has been written by senior journalist Vijay Lokapally and published by Bloomsbury India. It was unveiled in an event here on Tuesday (Oct 18).

At 27, he has already been the recipient of countless accolades including the Arjuna Award, the title of BCCI's 'International Cricketer of the Year' as well as the ICC's 'ODI Player of the Year'.

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In a country of over a billion people, cricket is king. The sport has a long and storied history in India, and its players are treated like celebrities. One of the most popular cricket players in the country is Virat Kohli. Kohli is a world-class batsman who has been breaking records since he started playing cricket. In 2016, Kohli became the first player to score three double centuries in a calendar year. He is also the fastest player to reach 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. Kohli has been named ICC ODI Player of the Year three times and is currently the top-ranked ODI batsman in the world. Kohli’s story is one of dedication and determination. When he was a child, Kohli dreamed of becoming a cricketer. He would practice for hours every day, honing his skills. When he was just 18 years old, he made his debut for the Indian national cricket team

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Virat Kohli’s family didn’t always have it good. His father, a criminal lawyer, succumbed to a cerebral stroke when Virat was very young, depriving him of someone he calls his ‘biggest support’ both on and off the field. The son paid his tribute to Prem Kohli in a way the older man himself would have applauded: Virat Kohli returned to the field to continue an innings a few hours after he lost him. ‘He was the one who drove me to practice every day, ’ the captain of the Indian cricket team recalls with his characteristic humility and grace. Widely read sports journalist Vijay Lokapally goes on to record happier times on the journey of Virat’s rapid rise to international stardom, an account punctuated by little-known stories by his fellow players, coaches, and intimates. At 28, he has already been the recipient of countless accolades — not the least of them being the Arjuna Award and the title of BCCI’s ‘International Cricketer of the Year for the 2011-12 and 2014-15 seasons. He was the ICC’s ‘ODI Player of the Year as early as 2012. On a more commercial note, the British journal SportsPro pronounced him the ‘second-most marketable athlete in the world just two years later. But for the Run Machine, it’s not about the money or fame or the roar of the crowds or that women of all ages vie for the wide-eyed attention of his extraordinary gaze. Few incidences have been reported of his open-hearted altruism, his numerous charities for underprivileged children and his sheer pluck when the odds are against him. But what has not escaped the public eye is how this wizard of the willow and wicket wears his heavy mantle with such insouciant ease.

About Virat Kohli:

Virat Kohli is an Indian International Cricketer and the Captain of the Indian Cricket Team. He is regarded as one of the World’s Best Batsmen. He is the fastest player to hit 10,000 ODI Runs. He is the First Asian Captain to win a Test Series in Australia. He is the Fastest in the world to reach 15,000 international runs. He is the Joint fastest batsman with Hashim Amla to reach 50 centuries across all forms of international cricket (348 innings). He is the only batsman in history to average more than 50 in Tests, ODIs and T20Is simultaneously. He is the first Indian cricketer to score three successive centuries in ODIs. He had hitten the Most runs in a bilateral ODI series by any cricketer – 558 runs against South Africa in 2018. He has the 3rd most no of Centuries by a Cricketer across all formats. He has been the recipient of many awards such as the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2017 and 2018; ICC Test Player of the Year 2018; ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012, 2017 and 2018 and Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2016, 2017. 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 honor in India, in 2018.

Book Details

Book Name: Driven-The Virat Kohli Story Author: Vijay Lokapally Paperback: 216 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury India (7 October 2016) Language: English ISBN10: 9789385936265 ISBN: 13: 978-9385936265 ASIN: 9385936263 Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.8 x 19.7 cm

If you are a Virat Kohli fan you must buy this book and read it completely. You will get inspired more and the Stats in this book is awesome and covers almost all records made by Kohli. He is the Best Batsman in the world. He is such a monster while chasing the runs and is regarded as the “Run Machine” and “King of Chasing”. He is always hungry for runs and a disciplined Cricketer who also gives importance to his fitness workout which makes him less prone to injury.

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