irat Kohli

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Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli posing after winning the Man of the tournament
trophy in Dhaka.
Personal information
Full name Virat Kohli
Born
5 November 1988 (age 25)
Delhi, India
Nickname Cheeku
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm medium
Role Batsman
International information
National side
India
Test debut (cap 269) 20 June 2011 v West Indies
Last Test 14 February 2014 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 175) 18 August 2008 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 05 March 2014 v Afghanistan
ODI shirt no. 18
T20I debut (cap 31) 12 June 2010 v Zimbabwe
Last T20I 6 April 2014 v Sri Lanka
Domestic team information
Years Team
2006present Delhi
2008present Royal Challengers Bangalore
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 24 134 27 55
Runs scored 1,721 5,634 906 3,909
Batting average 46.51 52.16 45.30 51.43
100s/50s 6/9 19/30 0/8 13/17
Top score 119 183 78 197
Balls bowled 144 538 136 612
Wickets 0 4 3 3
Bowling average 135.5 61.00 108
5 wickets in
innings
0 0 0 0
10 wickets in
match
0 n/a 0 0
Best bowling n/a 1/15 1/13 1/19
Catches/stumpings 27 62 13/ 53/
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 27 January 2014
Virat Kohli ( pronunciation (help info)) (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer. A
middle-order batsman, who can also bowl right arm medium pace,
[1]
Kohli captained the
victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia, and is the captain
of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise in the Indian Premier League.
[2]
He also represents
Delhi in first-class cricket and played for the West Delhi Cricket Academy.
[3]
In One Day
International (ODI) cricket, Kohli holds the record for the fastest century by an Indian
batsman,
[4]
and became the fastest to 17 hundreds in ODI by any batsman.
[5]
He is the fourth
batsman in ODIs after Sourav Ganguly (1997-2000), Sachin Tendulkar (1996-98) and Mahendra
Singh Dhoni (200709) to hit 1000 or more ODI runs in three or more consecutive calendar
years.
[5]
He also holds the record for most centuries in chases, with 11 centuries, behind only
Sachin Tendulkar. He is the first batsman to make five successive scores of 50 or more in ODIs
on two separate occasions.
[5]

Kohli made his ODI debut in 2008 and was part of the Indian team which won the 2011 World
Cup. Despite being a regular in the ODI side, Kohli only played his first Test in 2011 against
West Indies in Kingston. But on the disastrous 2011/12 India tour of Australia, in which India's
senior batsmen struggled throughout, Kohli stood out, scoring his first Test hundred in
Adelaide.
[6]

Kohli was the recipient of the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2012.
[7]
SportsPro has rated
him the 2nd most marketable athlete in the world.
[8]
In October 2013, against Australia, Kohli
smashed the fastest ODI century by an Indian, the seventh fastest ever.
[9]
In November 2013, he
became the top ranked ODI batsman for the first time.
[10]
Kohli, also received the Man of the
Tournament during the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.
[11]

Contents
1 Early and personal life
2 Career
o 2.1 Early career
3 International career
o 3.1 2013
4 IPL career
5 Batting career summary
o 5.1 Runs by year (ODI)
6 Records and achievements
o 6.1 Fastest Century
o 6.2 Milestones
o 6.3 Most runs in a calendar year
o 6.4 Most centuries
7 Awards
o 7.1 Test Man of the Match
o 7.2 ODI Man of the Match
8 Endorsements
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Early and personal life
Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi to Prem and Saroj Kohli.
[12]
He has an elder
brother, Vikash, and an elder sister, Bhavna.
[13]
Kohli attended school at Vishal Bharti and Savier
Convent. His father, Prem, worked as a lawyer and died in December 2006.
[12]
He loves the
Aston Martin, Ed Hardy shirts and is the only Indian cricketer with heavily tattooed arms (a
Golden Dragon on his forearm is apparently for luck).
Career
Early career
The West Delhi Cricket Academy was created in 1998 and Kohli was part of its first intake.
[14]

Kohli first played for Delhi Under-15 team in October 2002 in the 2002-03 Polly Umrigar
Trophy. He was the leading run-getter for his team in that tournament with 172 runs at an
average of 34.40.
[15]
He became the captain of the team for the 2003-04 Polly Umrigar Trophy
[16]

and scored 390 runs in 5 innings at an average of 78 including two centuries and two fifties.
[17]
In
late-2004, he was selected in the Delhi Under-17 team for the 2003-04 Vijay Merchant Trophy.
He scored 470 runs in four matches at an average of 117.50 with two hundreds and top-score of
251*.
[18]
Delhi Under-17s won the 2004-05 Vijay Merchant Trophy in which Kohli finished as
the highest run-scorer with 757 runs from 7 matches at an average of 84.11 with two
centuries.
[19]
In February 2006, he made his List A debut for Delhi against Services but did not
get to bat.
[20]

In July 2006, Kohli was selected in the India Under-19 squad on its tour of England. He
averaged 105 in the three-match ODI series against England Under-19
[21]
and 49 in the three-
match Test series.
[22]
India Under-19 went on to win both the series. After the conclusion of the
tour, India Under-19 coach Lalchand Rajput was impressed with Kolhi and said, "Kohli showed
strong technical skills against both pace and spin".
[23]
In September, the India Under-19 team
toured Pakistan. Kohli averaged 58 in the Test series
[24]
and 41.66 in the ODI series against
Pakistan Under-19s.
[25]
In October, playing for Delhi Under-19s, he averaged 15 in the Vinoo
Mankad Trophy
[26]
and 72.66 in the Cooch Behar Trophy.
[27]
He was then picked in the North
Zone Under-19 squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy in which he averaged 28 in two matches.
[28]

Kohli made his first-class debut for Delhi against Tamil Nadu in November 2006, at the age of
18, and scored 10 in his debut innings. He came into the spotlight in December when he decided
to play for his team against Karnataka on the day after his father's death and went on to score
90.
[29]
Delhi captain Mithun Manhas said, "That is an act of great commitment to the team and
his innings turned out to be crucial. Hats off to his attitude and determination."
[30]
He scored a
total of 257 runs from 6 matches at an average of 36.71 in that season.
[31]
In April 2007, he made
his Twenty20 debut and finished as the highest run-getter for his team in the Inter-State T20
Championship with 179 runs at an average of 35.80.
[32]
In July-August 2007, the India Under-19
team toured Sri Lanka. In the triangular series against Sri Lanka Under-19s and Bangladesh
Under-19s, Kohli was the second highest run-getter with 146 runs from 5 matches.
[33]
In the two-
match Test series that followed, he scored 244 runs at an average of 122 including a hundred and
a fifty.
[34]


Kohli captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in
Malaysia.
[35]
Batting at number 4, he scored 235 runs in 6 matches at an average of 47, including
a century against the West Indies U-19s.
[36]
He was also commended for making several tactical
bowling changes during the tournament.
[37]
His mother noted that "Virat changed a bit after that
day. Overnight he became a much more matured person. He took every match seriously. He
hated being on the bench. It's as if his life hinged totally on cricket after that day."
[12]

Kohli was instrumental in India's win of the 2009 Emerging Players Tournament in Australia. In
the final against South Africa, Kohli scored a century and India went on to win the game by 17
runs. Kohli emerged as the leading run scorer of the tournament, aggregating 398 runs from
seven matches including two centuries and two fifties.
[38]

International career
Following a hundred in the Emerging Players Tournament in Australia in 2008, Kohli was
selected in the ODI squad for India's tour of Sri Lanka in 2008.
[39]
Kohli made his debut in One
Day Internationals against Sri Lanka in the Idea Cup in 2008 when both Sachin Tendulkar and
Virender Sehwag were injured. He opened the batting in the first match, and was dismissed for
12. But he made a crucial 37 in a low-scoring second match in the series, which helped India win
and level the series. He made his first half-century, a score of 54, in the fourth match which
helped India win the series. This was India's first ODI series win against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.
He was included in the squad for the home ODI series against England later that same year but
was not given a chance to play, due to the inclusion of Tendulkar and Sehwag in team. Kohli was
then dropped from the squad for the five-match ODI series in Sri Lanka against Sri Lanka in
January 2009.
Kohli played in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy after Yuvraj Singh was injured, and since mid-
2009 has been the reserve ODI batsman. Yuvraj regained fitness for the home series against
Australia, so Kohli only played in occasional matches in the series.
In the absence of the injured Yuvraj, Kohli got a chance to play in the 4th ODI when Sri Lanka
toured India in December 2009. He scored his first ODI century, milking singles with Gautam
Gambhir with whom he shared a 224-run partnership for the third wicket as India won by seven
wickets to seal the series 31.
Senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar was rested for the tri-nations tournament in Bangladesh in
January 2010 which enabled Kohli to play in each of India's five matches. After making nine in
the opening loss to Sri Lanka, he top-scored with 91 to help secure a win after India collapsed
early in their run chase against Bangladesh on 7 January 2010. He then ended unbeaten on 71 to
help win the match for India with a bonus point after they chased down their target quickly. The
next day, he scored his second ODI century, against Bangladesh, bringing up the mark with the
winning runs. He was much praised for his performances during the tournament, and became
only the third Indian to score two ODI centuries before their 22nd birthday, following the
footsteps of Tendulkar and Suresh Raina.
[40]
However, in the final against Sri Lanka, he made
only two as India collapsed to 5/60 and an eventual four-wicket defeat.
Kohli was named vice-captain of the ODI side for the tri-series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe
in Zimbabwe in June 2010 as all the other first-choice players skipped the tournament. In the
same series, he became the fastest Indian to score 1,000 runs in ODI cricket.
[41]
He was India's
leading run-scorer in 2010, with 995 runs from 25 matches at an average of 47.38 with three
centuries.
[42]

Kohli was included in the Indian squad for Zimbabwe T20I series in June-2010. Kohli made
T20I debut in the first match where he played an impressive innings with Yusuf Pathan, when
Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina were dismissed by Ray Price in the eighth over. Pathan and
Kohli counterattacked and took India to an easy win in the 15th over. Since then, he has been a
regular member in T20I matches for India.
2011 Cricket World Cup
Kohli was preferred over Raina for the 2011 World Cup and became the first Indian to score a
century on World Cup debut. He also scored 59 against West Indies while sharing a 122-run
patnership with Yuvraj Singh.
[43]
His 83-run partnership for the third wicket with Gautam
Gambhir was instrumental in India taking the upper hand during their run chase against Sri
Lanka in the final.
[44]
He made 282 runs in 9 innings at an average of 35.25.
[45]
Between
1 January 2009 and 1 September 2011, Kohli was India's second highest run-scorer in ODIs with
1,994 runs at an average of 47.47.
[46]

Test debut
When India toured the West Indies in June and July 2011, they chose a largely inexperienced
squad, resting Tendulkar and others such as Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag missing out
due to injuries. Kohli was one of three uncapped players in the Test squad.
[47]
India won the Test
series 10 but Kohli struggled on his debut in the format; he struggled with the short ball
[48]

amassing just 76 runs from five innings.
[49]
Particularly troublesome for Kohli was the fast
bowling of Fidel Edwards, who dismissed him three times in the series.
[50]

India tour of England in 2011
Initially dropped from the Test squad for India's four-match series against England in July and
August, Kohli was recalled as cover for the injured Yuvraj Singh,
[51]
though did not play in the
series.
[52]
He played in the subsequent ODI series, scoring 194 runs from five innings including a
century,
[53]
although India lost the series 30.
[54]
In October, England faced India in a return ODI
series in India. India won 50 and Kohli was the highest run-scorer on either side with 270
across five matches and a highest score of 112 not out.
[55][56]