Virat Kohli is one of the world’s leading cricketers.
He is currently the captain of the Indian team.👍
He is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the world.🌏
He rose to fame when under his captaincy, Indian team won the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia in 2008.
Glorious Stats
👉 Till date, Kohli has played 82 tests and 239 ODIs.
👉 He has scored over 12,000 runs in both the formats.✌
👉 In 72 T-20Is appearances, he has made over 1800 runs.
👉 He is the fastest batsman🏏 in the world to reach 15,000 international runs.
Long list of Accolades
Kohli was named ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2017 and 2018.💪
He has also been conferred with the Arjuna Award, the Padma Shri and India’s highest sporting honour; the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.🙏
In 2017, Forbes magazine ranked Kohli at the 7th place in its list of Most Valuable Brand among athletes; even ahead of football⚽ superstar Lionel Messi.
In 2018, Time magazine named Kohli as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.😎
Personal life
Kohli married💍 his long-time girlfriend Anushka Sharma in 2017 in Italy.
The couple👫 has been nicknamed as “Virushka” by the media.