Virat Kohli- The New Shining Star of Indian Cricket Team

It has been five years of commitment, consistency and hard work by Virat Kohli which is currently bearing fruits for him. Few days back, in a one day match against West Indies at Kochi, Virat Kohli override the milestone of fastest 5000 runs in ODIs which was initially set by Vivian Richards. And currently, he has being referred as most sought after player in Indian Cricket team after end of Fab-Four Era because of his achievements and consistency, which has being showed by him from past five years.
His aggressive approach towards the game has always helped him to score big chase for the opponent team. Currently, Kohli is holding the number One spot in ICC ODI rankings and also become the highest run scorer of the year in 50-50 cricket format. Not to forget his next to perfect on-field techniques which have always made him outshine over others.

Since the very beginning or we can also say that just after his U-19 World Cup- 2008 win, he has been seen only rising in his cricket career.

Virat Kohli, Delhi based cricketer, has not only played a crucial role in ICC World Cup-2011 but also lead his U-19 team in Kuala Lumpur for the U-19 World Cup.

Kohli has been seen delighted after every accomplishing all the hard to get tasks. May be that’s the only reason behind his success. In the current year he has played 30 ODI matches in which he has scored seven half centuries and four centuries and 1218 runs in total having an average of 58 & 98 as the strike rate. And in his previous inning he scored some smashing 99 runs which helped him to hop on the top spot on the list of ‘Top Run Getter of 2013’. Previously Rohit Sharma was placed on that spot with 1155 as the total scored runs.

It is all about the class Kohli maintains throughout his game, it was never about the runs. He outshines in the most difficult conditions and had also scored his two centuries out of four in such conditions only.

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House

Virat Kohli home is in Delhi which is the capital city of the country. He belongs to a typical Punjabi family. His life style is of typical Punjabi family who likes to live in a big house and in a grand manner. Virat Kohli house is design beautifully with good interiors. His mother entertains the guest with different Punjabi dishes whenever they visit their home. Though Virat Kohli is not fond of cooking we can see his pictures of helping his mother in the kitchen. He had a beagle and is very fond of his dog. As we are aware that houses in Delhi are big and spacious, so is the Virat Kohli home.Virat Kohli house is stylishly done with good interiors. Whenever he is back from abroad participated in the cricket tournament he rushes Delhi to his house.
The photographs of Virat Kohli are available online showing the lavish lifestyle of the cricketer. Virat likes staying in his home spending time with his family and playing with his dear dog. It is said that Home is where your heart is and it is much aware that Virat Kohli loves his house and misses it on his long tiresome cricket tour.

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About Family

It is not much known about the personal life of the cricketer. This young and fearsome Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli was born in Delhi on November 5, 1988, to the lawyer Prem Kohli and his wife Saroj Kohli. He has one elder brother, Vikash, and one elder sister, Bhavna. Virat grew up in Delhi and did his schooling from St Sofia School in the Paschim Vihar region of Delhi. Virat Kohli parents are said to be down to earth. He belongs to a simple family and was bought up by his parents in the normal environment. Virat Kohli family stays in the Uttam Nagar area of Delhi. The 23 year old player is 5 ft and 9 inches tall and his weight is around 65 kilos. He was interested in the game of cricket from early age and obtained the training for the same in the West Delhi Cricket academy from the year 1998. Virat was the first intake when the West Delhi Cricket Academy was opened in the year 1998.

Apart from getting trained in the West Delhi Cricket academy Virat also played matches for the Sumit Dogra Academy situated in the Vasundhara Enclave near Noida, U.P. He was a hardworking student as well as an effective player and was considered good in both batting and bowling. He is also appreciated for his fielding skills. The South African cricket player Herschelle Gibbs is said to be the role model of Virat Kohli. Virat had a golden colored tattoo of a dragon graved on his hand which according to him is for bringing goodness in his performance during the matches he plays. Thus Virat Kohli has become the one and only player of the late Indian One day cricket team to carry a tattoo on his body. Apart from the game of cricket Virat is interested in the lawn tennis. The game attracts him and he is great fan of both the Indian tennis player Leander Paes and the famous Swiss tennis player Roger Federer. Virat enjoys playing tennis and going on long drive with his lady friend Sanjana who is a Kannada actress during his free time or whenever he is not playing or practicing cricket. Virat has appeared in many televisions commercial for leading brands. During the commercial of Fast Trek he paired with the Bollywood actress Genelia D’Souza. Virat Kohli is viewed as the most recent Indian sex symbol in the country. Kohli enjoys visiting Barista coffee shop present anywhere in Delhi and Barton Centre present in Bangalore city with friends.

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Virat Kohli Info

Full name:            Virat Kohli Born:                     5 November 1988 Delhi, India Nickname:           Cheeku Height:                  5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Batting style:       Right-handed Bowling style:      Right arm medium Role:                      Batsman Virat Kohli (About this cricketer) (Born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer. A middle-order batsman, who can also bowl right arm medium pace, Kohli captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia, and is the captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise in the Indian Premier League. He also represents Delhi in first-class cricket and played for the West Delhi Cricket Academy.

In One Day International (ODI) cricket, Kohli holds the record for the fastest century by an Indian batsman, and became the fastest to 17 hundreds in ODI by any batsman. He is the fourth batsman in ODIs after Sourav Ganguly (1997-2000), Sachin Tendulkar (1996-98) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007–09) to hit 1000 or more ODI runs in three or more consecutive calendar years. He also holds the record for most centuries in chases, with 11 centuries, behind only Sachin Tendulkar. He is the first batsman to make five successive scores of 50 or more in ODIs on two separate occasions. Kohli made his ODI debut in 2008 and was part of the Indian team which won the 2011 World Cup. Despite being a regular in the ODI side, Kohli only played his first Test in 2011 against West Indies in Kingston. But on the disastrous 2011/12 India tour of Australia, in which India's senior batsmen struggled throughout, Kohli stood out, scoring his first Test hundred in Adelaide. Kohli was the recipient of the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2012. SportsPro has rated him the 13th most marketable athlete in the world. In October 2013, against Australia, Kohli smashed the fastest ODI century by an Indian, the seventh fastest ever. In November 2013, he became the top ranked ODI batsman for the first time. Kohli, also received the Man of the Tournament during the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh. Personal life:-     Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi to Prem and Saroj Kohli. He has an elder brother, Vikash, and an elder sister, Bhavna. Kohli attended school at Vishal Bharti and Savier Convent. His father, Prem, worked as a lawyer and died in December 2006. He loves the Aston Martin, Ed Hardy shirts and is the only Indian cricketer with heavily tattooed arms (a Golden Dragon on his forearm is apparently for luck). Early career:- The West Delhi Cricket Academy was created in 1998 and Kohli was part of its first intake. Kohli first came into the spotlight when he played for Delhi in a Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka on the day of his father's death. Choosing to stay and bat, he went on to score 90 runs. Mithun Manhas, the team's captain, remarked that "That is an act of great commitment to the team and his innings turned out to be crucial". Kohli captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia. Batting at number 4, he scored 235 runs in 6 matches at an average of 47, including a century against the West Indies U-19s. He was also commended for making several tactical bowling changes during the tournament. His mother noted that "Virat changed a bit after that day. Overnight he became a much more matured person. He took every match seriously. He hated being on the bench. It's as if his life hinged totally on cricket after that day." Kohli was instrumental in India's win of the 2009 Emerging Players Tournament in Australia. In the final against South Africa, Kohli scored a century and India went on to win the game by 17 runs. Kohli emerged as the leading run scorer of the tournament, aggregating 398 runs from seven matches including two centuries and two fifties. International career:- Following a hundred in the Emerging Players Tournament in Australia in 2008, Kohli was selected in the ODI squad for India's tour of Sri Lanka in 2008. Kohli made his debut in One Day Internationals against Sri Lanka in the Idea Cup in 2008 when both Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag were injured. He opened the batting in the first match, and was dismissed for 12. But he made a crucial 37 in a low-scoring second match in the series, which helped India win and level the series. He made his first half-century, a score of 54, in the fourth match which helped India win the series. This was India's first ODI series win against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. He was included in the squad for the home ODI series against England later that same year but was not given a chance to play, due to the inclusion of Tendulkar and Sehwag in team. Kohli was then dropped from the squad for the five-match ODI series in Sri Lanka against Sri Lanka in January 2009. Kohli played in the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy after Yuvraj Singh was injured, and since mid-2009 has been the reserve ODI batsman. Yuvraj regained fitness for the home series against Australia, so Kohli only played in occasional matches in the series. In the absence of the injured Yuvraj, Kohli got a chance to play in the 4th ODI when Sri Lanka toured India in December 2009. He scored his first ODI century, milking singles with Gautam Gambhir with whom he shared a 224-run partnership for the third wicket as India won by seven wickets to seal the series 3–1. Senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar was rested for the tri-nations tournament in Bangladesh in January 2010 which enabled Kohli to play in each of India's five matches. After making nine in the opening loss to Sri Lanka, he top-scored with 91 to help secure a win after India collapsed early in their run chase against Bangladesh on 7 January 2010. He then ended unbeaten on 71 to help win the match for India with a bonus point after they chased down their target quickly. The next day, he scored his second ODI century, against Bangladesh, bringing up the mark with the winning runs. He was much praised for his performances during the tournament, and became only the third Indian to score two ODI centuries before their 22nd birthday, following the footsteps of Tendulkar and Suresh Raina. However, in the final against Sri Lanka, he made only two as India collapsed to 5/60 and an eventual four-wicket defeat. Kohli was named vice-captain of the ODI side for the tri-series against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe in June 2010 as all the other first-choice players skipped the tournament. In the same series, he became the fastest Indian to score 1,000 runs in ODI cricket. He was India's leading run-scorer in 2010, with 995 runs from 25 matches at an average of 47.38 with three centuries. Kohli was included in the Indian squad for Zimbabwe T20I series in June-2010. Kohli made T20I debut in the first match where he played an impressive innings with Yusuf Pathan, when Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina were dismissed by Ray Price in the eighth over. Pathan and Kohli counterattacked and took India to an easy win in the 15th over. Since then, he has been a regular member in T20I matches for India.

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