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Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer who currently captains the India national team in all formats. He plays domestic cricket for Delhi and in the IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Kohli led India to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup and made his ODI debut for India in 2008 at age 19. He has established himself as one of the top batsmen in the world, holding several record including the fastest to various run milestones in ODI cricket. Kohli has received many awards recognizing his success in international cricket.

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Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer who currently captains the India national team in all formats. He plays domestic cricket for Delhi and in the IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Kohli led India to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup and made his ODI debut for India in 2008 at age 19. He has established himself as one of the top batsmen in the world, holding several record including the fastest to various run milestones in ODI cricket. Kohli has received many awards recognizing his success in international cricket.

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Virat Kohli (Hindustani: [ʋɪˈɾɑːʈ ˈkoːɦliː] (About this soundlisten); born 5

November 1988) is an Indian cricketer who is the current captain of the India
national team. He plays for Delhi in domestic cricket and Royal Challengers
Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as the right-handed batsman. He is
widely considered one of the world's best batsmen.[2]

Kohli captained India Under-19s 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 at
the age of 19. Initially having played as a reserve batsman in the Indian team, he
soon established himself as a regular middle-order batsman in the ODI and was part
of the squad that won the 2011 Cricket 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.[3] Having reached the number one spot in the ICC
rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 2013,[4] 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 MS Dhoni's Test retirement in 2014. In early 2017, he
became the limited-overs captain 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. He
also holds the world record of being the fastest to 23,000 international runs.[5]
Among Indian batsmen, he has the best Test rating (937 points), ODI rating (911
points) and T20I rating (897 points).

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.[6] He was given the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma
Shri under the sports category in 2017[7] and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award,
the highest sporting honour in India, in 2018.[8] He is ranked as one of the
world's most famous athletes by ESPN[9] and one of the most valuable athlete brands
by Forbes.[10] In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential
people in the world.[11] In 2020, he was ranked 66th in Forbes list of the top 100
highest-paid athletes in the world for the year 2020 with estimated earnings of
over $26 million.[12]

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