Virat Kohli Biography: Birth, Age, Family, Education, Cricket Career, Net Worth and More
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: Birth, Age, Family and Education
Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 to Prem Kohli and Saroj Kohli in Delhi, India. His father was a criminal lawyer while his mother is a housewife. He was bred in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar and attended Vishal Bharti Public School and Saviour Convent. Kohli’s father was bed-ridden for a month and succumbed to cardiac arrest on 18 December 2006.
Personal Details:
- Full Name Virat Kohli
- Age 35
- Date of Birth 05 November 1988
- Birthplace Delhi
- Height 175cm
- Batting Style Right Handed Bat
- Bowling Style Right-Arm Medium
Career Debuts:
- ODI Debut 18 August 2008
- T20I Debut 12 June 2010
- Test Debut 20 June 2011
There’s a very good reason Virat Kohli is referred to as the ‘King’. The Indian captain’s batting record is hardly matched by any other cricketer on the planet, with his aggressive approach to the game also making him a player fans flock to watch.
Kohli always dreamed of representing his country in cricket and had his first opportunity as a teenager when he played for the India under-19 team in 2006, guiding the same team to a World Cup win in 2008.
His senior international career took off soon after when Kohli made his one-day international debut against Sri Lanka in August 2008. He now has more than 35 one-day hundreds and many other fine performances to his name, with a high-score of 183 against Pakistan in 2012. He averages more than 50 in 50-over cricket.
Kohli has been equally as impressive in the five-day game. He averages over 50 and has made 17 centuries and 14 fifties in 59 Tests. As of January 2019, he was the #1 ranked batsman in the world in both the ODI and Test formats.
Kohli’s brilliance with the bat is matched by his skills as a captain in all three forms of the game. While a major tournament win still eludes the Indian’s under his leadership, the side has regularly held the #1 world ranking in both Test and ODI cricket. He has the greatest Test Match winning percentage as an Indian captain, with a most recent triumph being a 2-1 series victory against Australia – the first ever Indian series win on Australian soil.
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.
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.
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