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Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer and former captain of the Indian national cricket team, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He holds several batting records including the highest run-scorer in T20I and IPL cricket. Kohli has led India to victory in several competitions and holds the top batting rankings in all three formats of international cricket.

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Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer and former captain of the Indian national cricket team, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He holds several batting records including the highest run-scorer in T20I and IPL cricket. Kohli has led India to victory in several competitions and holds the top batting rankings in all three formats of international cricket.

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Virat Kohli (Hindi pronunciation: [ʋɪˈɾɑːʈ ˈkoːɦli] ⓘ;

born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international


cricketer and the former captain of the Indian national
cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman and an
occasional medium-fast bowler. He currently
represents Royal Challengers Bengaluru in
the IPL and Delhi in domestic cricket. Kohli is widely
regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
[3] He holds the record as the highest run-scorer
in T20I and IPL, ranks third in ODI, and stands as the
fourth-highest in international cricket.[4] He also holds
the record for scoring the most centuries in ODI cricket
and stands second in the list of most international
centuries scored. Kohli was a member of the Indian
team that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2013 ICC
Champions Trophy, and captained India to win the ICC
Test mace three consecutive times in 2017, 2018, and
2019.[5]
In 2013, Kohli was ranked number one in the ICC
rankings for ODI batsmen. In 2015, he achieved the
summit of T20I rankings.[6] In 2018, he was ranked top
Test batsman, making him the only Indian cricketer to
hold the number one spot in all three formats of the
game. He is the first player to score 20,000 runs in a
decade. In 2020, the International Cricket
Council named him the male cricketer of the decade.[7]
He has received many accolades for his performances
in cricket. He won the ICC ODI Player of the Year award
four times in 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2023. He also won
the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, given to the ICC
Cricketer of the Year, on two occasions, in 2017 and
2018 respectively. In 2018, he became the first player to
win both ICC ODI and Test Player of the Year awards in
the same year. Also, he was named the Wisden Leading
Cricketer in the World for three consecutive years, from
2016 to 2018. At the national level, Kohli was honoured
with the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma Shri in 2017,
and India's highest sporting honour, the Khel Ratna
award, in 2018.
In 2018, Time magazine included him on its list of
the 100 most influential people in the world. Kohli has
been deemed one of the most commercially viable
athletes, with estimated earnings of ₹ 634
crore (US$79 million) in the year 2022.

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