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Virat Kohli Biography

Virat Kohli born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. He is the current captain of the Indian team in Test cricket and vice-captain in limited overs formats. In the Indian Premier League (IPL), He plays for and captains the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

After representing Delhi at various age-group levels and domestic cricket, Kohli captained India to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. A few months later, he made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka. Initially having played as a reserve batsman in the Indian team, he soon established himself as a regular in the middle-order in ODIs. He was part of the Indian squad that won the 2011 World Cup. Kohli then played his first Test in 2011 against the West Indies at Kingston. By 2013, he shrugged off the tag of "ODI specialist" with Test hundreds in Australia and South Africa. The same year, he also reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time. He has also found success in theTwenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament at the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. Later that year, he became the top-ranked T20 batsman in the ICC rankings.

Kohli was appointed the vice-captain of the ODI team in 2012 and has since also captained the team on several occasions in the absence of regular skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. After Dhoni's Test retirement in 2014, Kohli was handed over the Test captaincy. Kohli holds numerous batting records including the fastest century by an Indian batsman, the fastest batsman in the world to 6,000 ODI runs and the fastest to 17 hundreds in the history of ODI cricket. He is only the second batsman to have scored 1,000 or more ODI runs for four consecutive calendar years.

Virat Kohli Personal information

Born: November 5, 1988 (age 26), Delhi, India
Height: 1.75 m
Weight: 69 kg
Parents: Saroj Kohli, Prem Kohli
Siblings: Bhavna Kholi, Vikash Kholi
Current teams: Delhi cricket team (Batsman)