#Virat Kohli

Everything about Virat Kohli. Latest News on Virat Kohli, Virat Kohli photos,Virat Kohli latest records 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 captains the Royal Challengers Bangalore. After representing Delhi at various age-group levels and domestic cricket, 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 years in August 2008. 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 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 the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament at the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh and the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India. In 2014, he became the top-ranked T20I batsman in the ICC rankings and, as of April 2016, holds the position. 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 Indian batting records including the fastest ODI century, the fastest batsman to 5,000 ODI runs and the fastest to 10 ODI centuries. He is only the second batsman in the world to have scored 1,000 or more ODI runs for four consecutive calendar years.Kohli is the fastest batsman in the world to 1,000 runs in T20Is and also holds the record for most fifties (16) in T20Is. He holds the records of most runs in a single tournament of both the ICC World Twenty20 and the IPL.