Virat Kohli is a popular Indian international cricketer and the former captain of the Indian national cricket team. He is considered one of the best batsmen in the world.
He has also been the captain of the 2008 World Cup cricket-winning team under the age of 19 years. He has been the team’s captain for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL) since 2013.
He won the 2011 Cricket World Cup with the Indian team and was named player of the tournament at the ICC World T20 in 2014 and 2016. In 2018 he was the third cricketer ever to be awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.
ESPN lists him as one of the most famous athletes worldwide. In 2018 he was named one of the 100 Most Influential Personalities by Time, and one of the most valuable athlete brands by Forbes.
In 2020, Kohli was ranked 66th in the Forbes list of the top 100 highest-paid athletes in the world for the year 2020 with estimated earnings of $26 million. In March 2021, Virat Kohli became the first Asian celebrity to reach 100 million followers on Instagram.
Virat Kohli Age / Wiki
Born | 5 November 1988, Delhi, India |
Nickname | King Kohli, Chase Master, and Run Machine |
Age | 35 Years Old |
Zodiac Sign | Sagittarius |
Education | Vishal Bharti Public School in Delhi |
Profession | Cricketer, Actor, and Model |
Nationality | Indian |
Religion | Hinduism |
Ethnicity | Punjabi Khatri sub-caste |
Wife | Anushka Sharma (Indian Actress) |
Children | Daughter: Vamika Kohli |
Parents | Father: Prem Kohli Mother: Saroj Kohli |
Siblings | Vikas Kohli (Brother) Bhawna Kohli Dhingra (Sister) |
Net Worth | $126 Million (As of 2023) In Rupees: ₹1050 Crore |
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Virat Kohli Height and Weight
Height | 5 Feet 8 Inches 1.76 Meters 176 Centimeters |
Weight | 70 Kilograms 154 Pounds |
Hair Color | Black |
Eye Color | Brown |
Tattoo | Yes |
Piercing | No |
Body Measurements | Unknown |
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Virat Kohli Biography
Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in New Delhi into a Punjabi Hindu family. His father Prem Ji Kohli was a lawyer, his mother, Saroj Kohli was a housewife and he has two siblings older brother, Vikas Kohli, and an older sister, Bhavna. Kohli received his basic education from Vishal Bharti School.
At the age of 9, he was accepted into the newly founded West Delhi Cricket Academy. From 2002 he played in the Delhi Under-15 team and was their captain in his second season. In 2004 he was promoted to the Under-17 team in Delhi and in July 2006 played his first tour with the Indian Under-19 national team in England.
In September of that year, he went on a tour with the team in Pakistan. He made his first-class cricket debut at the age of 18 for Delhi against Tamil Nadu in November 2006. In December 2006, his father died while Kohli was playing against Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy.
In the Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2008 in Malaysia, he won with the Indian team as its captain. He was able to achieve 235 runs, making him the third-best batsman in the tournament. This success enabled him to receive a Border-Gavaskar scholarship to train in Australia for six weeks.
Virat Kohli Personal Life
In 2013, Virat and Anushka started dating each other. The relationship received huge media attention. The two finally got married on 11 December 2017 in a private ceremony in the city of Milan, Italy, which they both confirmed on their Twitter handle.
On 11 January 2021, Anushka gave birth to a baby girl, Vamika Kholi. In 2018, Kohli turned vegetarian after suffering from a cervical spine issue caused by high uric acid levels in his body.
International Cricket Career
In August 2008, he was surprisingly nominated for the first time for the national team for the tour in Sri Lanka. There he had his first ODI at the age of 19 national team debut, as Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag were actually used as an opening batsman was injured. During the fourth ODI, he scored his first fifty with 54 runs.
Then he was nominated after Shikhar Dhawan was injured for the India A-team to play an unofficial test series in Australia. In addition to this tour, he completed national games before November 2008 for the tour against England was nominated on which was not used.
Nevertheless, he got a Grade D contract from the Indian association BCCI and thus his first central contract. For the next tour in Sri Lanka, he was not nominated. He slipped back into the Indian team for a three-nation tournament in Sri Lanka in September 2009, this time due to the injury of Gautam Gambhir.
At the following ICC Champions Trophy 2009, he replaced Yuvraj Singh in the Indian team. In the last and insignificant group game against the West Indies, he scored 79* runs and was named Man of the Match for the first time.