Virat Kohli
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Virat Kohli (Hindustani: [ʋɪˈraːʈ ˈkoːɦliː] ( listen); born 5
November 1988) 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.
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He plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in
the Indian Premier League (IPL), and has been the team's captain
since 2013. Since October 2017, he has been the top-ranked ODI
batsman in the world and is currently 2nd in Test rankings with 886
points.[12] Among Indian batsmen, Kohli has the best ever Test
rating (937 points), ODI rating (911 points) and T20I rating (897
points).
Kohli captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19
World Cup in Malaysia. After a few months later, he made
his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at the age of 19. Initially
having played as a reserve batsman in the Indian team, he soon
established himself as a regular in the ODI middle-order and was
part of the squad that won the 2011 World Cup. He made his Test
debut in 2011 and shrugged off the tag of "ODI specialist" by 2013
with Test hundreds in Australia and South Africa.[13] Having
reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen
for the first time in 2013,[14] Kohli also found success in
the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament twice at
the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016).
Kohli was appointed the vice-captain of the ODI team in 2012 and
handed over the Test captaincy following Mahendra Singh Dhoni's
Test retirement in 2014. In early 2017, he became the limited-overs
captain as well after Dhoni stepped down from the position. In
ODIs, Kohli has the second highest number of centuries and the
highest number of centuries in run-chases in the world. He holds the
world record for being the fastest batsman to 8,000, 9,000,
10,000,11,000 and 12,000 runs in ODI cricket, reaching the
milestones in 175, 194, 205 , 222 and 242 innings respectively.[15][16] [17]
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Kohli has been the recipient of many awards such as 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.[20] He was given the Arjuna Award in
2013, the Padma Shri under the sports category in 2017[21] and
the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honour in India,
in 2018.[22] Kohli is ranked as one of the world's most famous
athletes by ESPN[23] and one of the most valuable athlete brands
by Forbes.[24] In 2018, Time magazine named Kohli one of the 100
most influential people in the world.[25] In 2020, Kohli was ranked
66th in Forbes list of the top 100 highest paid athletes in the world
for the year 2020 with estimated earnings of $26 million. Virat Kohli
is the only cricketer to feature in Forbes.[26]
