VIRAT KOHLI—Wiki, Net Worth, Age, Wife, Family, Caste, Records, Biography & More
• VIRAT KOHLI
Virat Kohli is the captain of Indian cricket team who is known as the Run Machine and King Kohli in the international cricket. He is an elegant batsman who usually bats on first down in the Indian cricket team. He is famous for breaking the several records in the international cricket. He is at no. 5 in the list of most hundreds by a batsman in the international cricket. Check out Virat Kohli, height, weight, age, girlfriend, wife, caste, family, biography and more.
• Biography/Wiki
Virat Kohli is 31 years old Indian cricketer who has been playing for the Indian cricket team from the last decade. He was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi, India. Cricket was something that fascinated him in his childhood, and he adopted the cricket as his passion. He completed his higher studies from ‘Vishal Bharti Public School, Delhi’ and secondary schooling from ‘Saviour Convent Senior Secondary School, Paschim Vihar, Delhi.’ He does not have any graduation degree; as he started concentrating on his game after completion of his schooling.
• Physical Appearance
Apart from being a genius cricketer, he has a dashing personality. He looks quite cool and handsome in his appearance. Being a sportsperson, he maintains his fitness by doing workouts and other physical activities. He weighs around 70 kg and his height is 5′ 9″ inches. His eyes are dark brown and the hair is black. He has a built-up body. His chest is around 40 inches, waist- 30 inches, and biceps are 14 inches.
• Family, Caste, Girlfriends & Wife
Virat belongs to a middle-class Hindu family from Delhi. His caste is Khatri. His father name is Late Prem Kohli who was a criminal lawyer. His mother name is Saroj Kohli who is a homemaker. Virat is youngest of three siblings. His sister name is Bhawna Kohli and his brother name is Vikas Kohli. Both always supported Virat in every situation.
He married Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma on 11 December 2017 in Tuscany, Italy. He was dating Anushka for a long time.
Before dating Anushka Sharma, he was in the relationship with Sarah-Jane Dias (An actress), Sanjana (An actress), Tamannah Bhatiya (An Actress), and Izabelle Leite (A Brazilian model) according to the media reports.
• Career
Virat was passionate about cricket since his childhood. He started playing cricket in his schooldays. After playing for domestic teams such as Delhi and India Red, he made his one-day international debut on 18 August 2008 against Sri Lanka in Dambulla. Later in 2010 and 2011, he made his T20 and Test debut respectively against Zimbabwe and West Indies. In 2008, he captained the Indian Under-19 team in the world cup in Malaysia and led the team to win the cup. This was the turning point of his career. He got chance in the senior Indian team and he cashed-out the opportunity. Since then, he continued to play and broke several records.
He is the fifth batsman in the list of most hundreds by an international batsman in the ICC rankings. The top four in the list has retired and played more matches than Virat. Till now (July 2018), he has scored 17435 runs including all three formats. In 2014, he was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in all formats after the resignation of M. S. Dhoni as the Indian captain.
Since then, he captained the team India in 49 ODI matches out of which India won 38 matches. He is the Indian skipper, under the captainship of which, India won the 5 consecutive test series and 9 test in a calendar year. In IPL, he plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. He made the record of most runs (973) and most hundreds (4) in an IPL season.
• Records
He is the first Indian to score a century on World Cup debut match (2011) and third Indian to make 2 ODI hundreds by the age of 22 (after Sachin Tendulkar & Suresh Raina).
He is fastest Indian to complete 1000, 3000, 4000, 5000, and 7500 runs in ODI cricket and to score 25 ODI tons.
He made the fastest century (of 52 balls) against Australia at Jaipur, India in 2013. (of 52 balls against Australia at Jaipur, India in 2013).
He is the third player to score 3 double hundreds in a calendar year after Don Bradman and Ricky Ponting.
He shares the record of 4 double hundreds with Don Bradman, Graeme Smith, and Michael Clarke.
Virat Kohli Double Ton In Test Match
First Indian Test skipper to score a double century in an overseas Test.
The fastest player to make 19,000 runs overall in international cricket.
• Net Worth
His net worth is around ₹400 crore.
His Test match fee is ₹15 lakh, ODI- 6 Lakh, T20- 3 Lakh, and IPL- 17 crore. His retainer fee is ₹7 crore.
• Facts
•In his schooldays, his favourite subject was ‘History’, and ‘Maths’ was quite difficult for him.
•In 2003, he was the highest run-scorer for Delhi in the 2002-2003 Polly Umrigar Trophy, with 172 runs at an average of 34.40 and for the same, Ashish Nehra awarded him in his coach Raj Kumar Sharma’s academy.
•His teammates call him ‘Chikoo.’ This name was given by his Delhi State coach Ajit Chaudhary in his childhood days.
In 2006, his father died of a brain stroke, but the very next day after his father’s death, he played a match-saving knock for Delhi against Karnataka, where he scored 90 runs.
He has a number of superstitions. He always wears black or red wristbands, and ‘Kada.’
• He has a phobia of heights.
• His Indian team and IPL team jersey number are 18.
•He loves playing against Pakistan and Australia.
•He is a very aggressive as well as an emotional person, he cries when he gets upset. He was seen crying on the field when India lost the qualifier match in 2012’s T20 World cup.
• He won the ICC ODI Player of the Year Award in 2012 and 2017.
Virat Kohli ICC Player Of The Year 2012
• In 2012, he was named as one of the 10 best dressed international men.
He was given the Arjuna Award (2013) and Padma Shri Award (2017) by the Government of India.
•The same year, he was appointed the first brand ambassador of Border Security Force (BSF).
• In 2016, his singing video on the song “Jo Wada Kiya Hai Nibhana Padhega” went viral on the internet.
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• In 2018, the Government of India conferred Virat Kohli with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.
Virat Kohli – Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
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