Virat Kohli Wiki Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Career & more

Virat Kohli Wiki Biography: Virat Kohli is an Indian Cricketer and Ex-Captain of the Indian Cricket team. Kohli is also regarded currently as one of the greatest players of all time. He is such an exceptional player that he once had an average of 50 and above in all three formats of international cricket. He was born in Delhi, India.

Virat Kohli has always been passionate about cricket since his childhood at an age of 10, Kohli joined West Delhi Cricket Academy in 1998. In the year 2002, Kohli was selected in Delhi’s Under-15 team and he was also part of Delhi’s Under-17 team. Then in the year 2006, he was selected in India’s Under-19 team for England tour and in the same year, Kohli made his first-class debut for Delhi in Ranji Trophy. Kohli has also captained India’s Under-19 team in the 2008 ICC Under-19 World Cup. Virat made his ODI debut in 2008 against Sri Lanka and he made his T20I debut against Zimbabwe on 12th June 2010.

Virat Kohli plays in IPL for the Royal Challengers Bangalore team and has been playing for RCB since the inaugural season in 2008. Kohli was first bought under a youth contract by the RCB franchise for a sum of $30,000. In 2011 he was the only player retained by RCB and was also made the Vice-Captain of the team and then in the year 2013, Kohli was named as captain of the RCB team.

Virat Kohli is the Top Ranked Indian, Asian, and Cricketer in the World List As the Most Influencer person on Social Media. His Rankings on 24th on Global List.” – According to Visual Capitalist.

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Kohli’s Career In Brief

Phase 1:-

• Virat first joined a professional cricket club in 1998. He was the first player to join West Delhi Cricket Academy in 1998.
• He initially started playing cricket under the guidance of his coach Rajkumar Sharma and at the same time he also used to play cricket for Sumeet Dogra.
• In October 2002 he played for Delhi Under-15 team in 2002-03 Polly Umrigar Trophy and in the season 2003-04 Kohli captained the team in Polly Umrigar Trophy.
• Then in 2004, Kohli made his Under-17 debut in 2003-04 Vijay Merchant Trophy for Delhi and he was also the highest run scorer in this tournament.
• Kohli made his List-A debut in February 2006 for Delhi against Services but he didn’t bat in that match.
• In the same year, Virat was also selected in India’s Under-19 squad for ODI and Test series against England Under-19 team.
• Kohli scored at an average of 105 in ODIs and 49 in Tests in those series against England Under-19 team.
• In the year 2006, Kohli made his first-class debut for Delhi against Tamilnadu Ranji Team. In a match against Karnataka in 2006, Kohli batted even after getting to know about his father’s demise and scored 90 runs in that match.
• Kohli was then made the captain of India’s Under-19 team for 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup and led his team to the tournament victory.

Phase 2:-

• Kohli made his national debut in senior national team in 2008 against Sri Lanka on 18th August 2008 in ODI series.
• He was also the part of Indian’s squad in 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. Then in 2010 Kohli made his T20 debut and played his first T20 international match against Zimbabwe on 12th June 2010.
• He was also the part of India’s squad for 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and in the same year, Kohli made his Test debut against West Indies on 20th June 2011 but he was unable to score much runs in that Test series.
• He was made the Vice-Captain of India’s ODI Squad in 2012 Asia Cup.
• Kohli was also the part of Indian team for 2013 ICC Champions Trophy which India won by defeating England in Finals.
• Kohli was then made the Vice-Captain of Indian team for 2014 ICC World Twenty20.
• Indian Team toured Australia in 2014 and in Test series, Dhoni announced his retirement from Test cricket ahead of Fourth test and Kohli was made the full time Captain of Indian Test Team in that series.
• Kohli was also the part of 2015 ICC World Cup in which India lost to Australia in Semifinals.
• Kohli was also the part of Indian Squad for 2016 ICC World Twenty20 and was given the Man of The Tournament Award for the second consecutive time in T20 World Cup after 2014.
• In 2017 ICC Champions Trophy, Kohli captained Indian team for the first time in an ICC tournament and led his team to the finals.
• Virat then captained India in 2019 ICC World Cup and the team reached Semifinals but lost to New Zealand in Semifinals.
• Then later in 2021, he informed ahead of T20 World Cup that he will step down from captaincy in T20I after the tournament.

IPL Career

• Virat Kohli was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008 for a sum of $30,000 but he was unable to make an impact and scored only 165 runs in 12 matches. Then in the next season in 2009, he scored 246 runs.
• Kohli scored 307 runs at a strike rate of 144.81 in 2010 IPL season.
• For 2011 IPL season, RCB retained only Kohli and named him as Vice-captain of RCB team.
• Then in 2013 he was named as full-time captain of RCB team after Daniel Vettori took retirement.
• In 2016 IPL season, Virat broke the record of highest runs in a single tournament by scoring 973 in 2016 tournament and scored 4 centuries that season.
• RCB franchise retained Virat for a sum of $117 Million.
• He left RCB’s captaincy after 2021 IPL Season.

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Virat Kohli Age, Height, Weight

Virat Kohli’s age is 33 years. His height is 5 feet 9 inches and his weight is 69 kgs. Kohli has Dark Brown eyes and Black colored hair.

Virat Kohli’s Family

Virat Kohli was born on November 5, 1988, in Delhi City of India. His father’s name is Prem Kohli who used to work as a Criminal Lawyer. His mother’s name is Saroj Kohli. Kohli has two siblings. The name of his older brother is Vikas and he also has an older sister named Bhavna. Virat’s father died on 18^th December 2006 which also describes his jersey number.

Wife/Girlfriend

Virat Kohli is Married. He is married to Indian Actress Anushka Sharma. She is an Indian Actress. Kohli started dating her in 2013 and they got married on December 11, 2017. They have a daughter named Vamika born on January 11, 2021.

Before Anushka, Virat had also dated actresses Sanjana Sharma and Tamannaah Bhatia.

Favourite Things

• Virat’s favourite Batsman are Sachin Tendulkar and Herschelle Gibbs.
• His favourite bowler is Shane Warne.
• His favourite actors are Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr. and Aamir Khan.
• Virat’s favourite actresses are Aishwarya Rai and Penelope Cruz.
• Kohli loves playing at Adelaide Cricket Ground in Australia.
• He also likes watching Basketball and his favourite Basketball player is Kobe Bryant.

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Virat Kohli:- Life At A Glance

THE CHASER

Virat Kohli is currently the biggest face of the game of cricket. He is regarded as the greatest batsman of all time by most of the experts of the game and generally plays at no. 3 and 4 positions but he had done opening in a few matches too. He is captain of the Indian Cricket Team in all formats and plays for Royal challenger Bangalore in IPL.

Virat Kohli Career Highlights

Phase 1:-

• Kohli’s father took him to the academy after being suggested by his neighbour. Kohli trained at the academy under coach Rajkumar Sharma. When he was in 9th class, he shifted to Saviour Convent in Paschim Vihar to get better prospects. Then in October 2002, Kohli made his debut for Delhi Under-15 team in the 2002–03 Polly Umrigar Trophy tournament. After some exceptional performances and coming through ranks In July 2006, Kohli was selected in the India Under-19 squad. Virat came into the spotlight in December 2006, when he decided to play for his team against Karnataka on the day after his father’s death and went on to score 90.
• In March 2008, Kohli captained the Under-19 Indian team at the 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, Malaysia and became champions after beating South Africa in finals. He made his One-day international debut, at the age of 19, in the first ODI of the tour against Sri Lanka and was dismissed for 12. In December 2009 in a home ODI series against Sri Lanka he scored his first ODI century–107 off 111 balls. He was India’s leading run-scorer in ODIs in 2010 and became strong contender for a spot WC 2011.Kohli played in every match of India’s successful World Cup 2011 campaign. He scored an unbeaten 100 against Bangladesh and became the first Indian to score a century on World Cup debut and also played an important knock of 35, sharing an 83-run partnership with Gautam Gambhir in the finals. This match got finished by Ms Dhoni‘s monstrous six and India went on to the win World Cup after 28 years.

Phase 2:-

• After founding a place in India’s Test squad for the tour of Australia in December 2011 while fielding on the boundary during the second match, he gestured middle finger to the crowd for which he was fined 50% of his match fees. In a match of CWB triangular series, 2012 against Sri Lanka at Hobart, Kohli went on to score 133*from 86 balls to take India to a comfortable win with 13 overs to spare and played a special knock an over where he hit Malinga for 24 runs. Kohli was appointed the vice-captain for the 2012 Asia Cup and in a match against Pakistan, he scored a personal best 183 off 148 balls. In 2013, he featured in the ICC Champions Trophy in England which India won. He was also named as the part of the ‘Team of the Tournament. He was member of the team for 2014 & 2016 ICC World Twenty20 and Kohli was man of the Tournament in both these tournaments but India lost both the tournament.
• In 2014 India tour of England, Kohli’s technique was exposed by Jimmy Anderson and he saw the worst phase of his career. For the first Test of the Australian tour in December 2014, and Kohli took the reins as Test captain for the first time and he hit centuries in both the innings of the Test. Then India went on to play in Australia for World Cup 2015 where Kohli gave average performances and India lost the Tournament after losing in semi-final against Australia (won that WC). In the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India, Kohli played an unbeaten knock of 82 from 51 balls in India’s must-win group match against Australia, it is being regarded as his finest knock in this format.

Phase 3:-

• Virat Kohli then got the chance to captain team India in an ICC tournament for the first time in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. India lost to Pakistan in finals but he was named as part of the ‘Team of the Tournament’ at the 2017 Champions Trophy. On 2 August 2018, Kohli scored his first Test century on English soil in the first test match of the series against England and Kohli didn’t got dismissed by Jimmy Anderson even once in that series but India still lost that series.
• In 2018-2019 Border Gavaskar Trophy, he finished the series with 282 runs at an average of 40 and by winning the test series in Australia, which made Kholi the first Indian and even the first Asian captain to win a Test series in Australia. In April 2019, he was named the captain of Indian team for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Kohli scored five consecutive fifty plus score in the tournament but India lost the semi-final against New Zealand, in which Kohli was out cheaply. In November 2020, Kohli won Sir Garfield Sobers Award for being the Male cricketer of the decade and ODI cricketer of the decade.
• In test series, against Australia during November 2020, Kohli left the squad after a disastrous end of 1st test because of paternity leave. India went on to win that series under captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane and thanks to once in a lifetime effort by the young Indian team which made the entire cricket world go crazy and described India’s recovery as One of the great comebacks in cricket history.