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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, Kohli is regarded as one of the best contemporary batsmen in the world.
Born: November 5, 1988 (age 32 years), New Delhi, India
Height: 1.75 m
Weight: 69 kg
Spouse: Anushka Sharma (m. 2017)
Awards: Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Padma Shri, Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, more
Current teams: India national cricket team (Batsman), Royal Challengers Bangalore (Batsman)
Siblings: Bhavna Kohli, Vikash Kohli

Kohli captained India Under-19s to triumph at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. Following a couple of months after the fact, he made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at 19 years old. At first having played as a save batsman in the Indian group, he before long laid down a good foundation for himself as a normal in the ODI center request and was important for the crew that won the 2011 World Cup. He made his Test debut in 2011 and disregarded the tag of "ODI subject matter expert" by 2013 with Test hundreds in Australia and South Africa.[4] Having arrived at the main spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen without precedent for 2013,[5] Kohli likewise discovered accomplishment in the Twenty20 organization, winning the Man of the Tournament twice at the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016). 


Kohli was selected the bad habit chief of the ODI group in 2012 and gave over the Test captaincy following Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Test retirement in 2014. In mid 2017, he turned into the restricted overs commander too after Dhoni resigned from the job. In ODIs, Kohli has the second most noteworthy number of hundreds of years and the most noteworthy number of hundreds of years in run-pursues on the planet. He holds the world record for being the quickest batsman to 8,000, 9,000, 10,000, 11,000 and 12,000 runs in ODI cricket. Among Indian batsmen, Kohli has the best at any point Test rating (937 focuses), ODI rating (911 focuses) and T20I rating (897 focuses). 


Kohli has been the beneficiary of many honors, for example, 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 and 2018.[6] He was given the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma Shri under the games class in 2017[7] and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the most noteworthy brandishing honor in India, in 2018.[8] Kohli is positioned as one of the world's most popular competitors by ESPN[9] and perhaps the most significant competitor marks by Forbes.[10] In 2018, Time magazine named Kohli one of the 100 most persuasive individuals in the world.[11] In 2020, Kohli was positioned 66th in Forbes rundown of the best 100 most generously compensated competitors on the planet for the year 2020 with assessed profit of $26 million.[12] 


On 22 April 2021, against Rajasthan Royals, Kohli turned into the first historically speaking part in the IPL to score 6000 IPL runs.[13]

Personal information
Born5 November 1988 (age 32)
New Delhi, India
NicknameChikoo or Cheeku[1][2]
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleTop-order batsman
Relations
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International information
National side
Test debut (cap 269)20 June 2011 v West Indies
Last Test12 August 2021 v England
ODI debut (cap 175)18 August 2008 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI28 March 2021 v England
ODI shirt no.18
T20I debut (cap 31)12 June 2010 v Zimbabwe
Last T20I20 March 2021 v England
T20I shirt no.18
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2006–presentDelhi
2008–presentRoyal Challengers Bangalore (squad no. 18)
Career statistics
CompetitionTestODIT20IFC
Matches9425490126
Runs scored7,60912,1693,1599,858
Batting average51.4159.0752.6552.15
100s/the 50s27/2543/620/2834/33
Top score254*18394*254*
Balls bowled175641146643
Wickets0443
Bowling average–166.2549.50112.66
5 wickets in innings–000
10 wickets in the match–000
Best bowling–1/151/131/19
Catches/stumpings94/–132/–42/–125/