Virat Kohli was born on 5th November 1988 in a Punjabi family in Delhi. His Father was a criminal lawyer and his mother is a Housewife. He did his schooling from Vishal Bharti public school, Delhi up to class 8th and after that he is transferred to Savior convent school.
CHILDHOOD
At the age of just 3 when most of the children are busy with their toys, he used to take a cricket bat and ask his father to throw a ball. From his childhood days only, he has a dream of playing for Indian Team and with his hard work and passion he conquered what he dreamed. When he use to play with his friends on the street, his father has a thought that my son will achieve his goals one day. His father was the biggest motivation for him who motivated him to pursue his dreams and at an age of just 9, he joined West Delhi Cricket Academy, and started his training under Raj Kumar Sharma. He performed very well in his training due to which, he started coming in the limelight and the coaches started appraising him for his good work.
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CAREER
In 2002, he was selected for U-15 team of Delhi and got a chance of playing 2002-2003 Polly Umrigar Trophy tournament. He was the highest run scorer in his this tournament, which gets him the position of the Captain of his team for 2003-2004 Polly Umrigar Trophy. After this he was selected for U-17 team of Delhi and played 2003-2004 Vijay Merchant Trophy tournament in which he scored 470 runs in 4 matches and in the very next season of this tournament he single handily made his team won the tournament. This secured his place in India’s U-19 team. In 2006 he played against England and made runs on an average of 105 runs in 3 match series due to which India won that series.
All this could never be possible if his father didn’t believe in him, Most of the parents want their child to study upto class 12 and thereafter join some decent college then do a decent job, make some money and get settled. But, Virat was very lucky to have such an understanding and lovely father and that was the main reason due to which he loved him the most. When he was just 18 years old, in 2006 his father passed away due to Brain Stroke due to which whole Kohli family came under financial crises and for some time they even had to stay in a rented house.
After the death of his father, he started taking cricket more seriously and in 2008, he made India to win the ICC U-19 World cup held in Malaysia. He earned a lot of fame after this victory and everybody started talking about him. After this, he was signed by Royal Challenger Bangalore for Indian Premier League at a price of $30,000. After this he was also selected for the Indian ODI squad and in 2008, for the first time, India won an ODI series against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.
He got his first man of the match award in 2009 for scoring 79 runs against West Indies. He scored his First century (107 runs of 111 balls) against Sri Lanka.
Due to his hard work, passion and consistency he was made a part of 2011 World cup Squad and it may be a co-incident that after 1983, India won the World Cup for the first time. In 2012 he was made Vice Captain against Bangladesh and in 2014 he was named as the Captain of Indian test cricket team.
BAD TIMES
In 2011, during the tour to West Indies for test match series. He could only make 76 runs out of 4 matches due to which he was dropped out for Test matches moreover, in 2015 there was a time when he was under a very bad form. At that time, the whole media and some crap people criticized him for his bad performance. But he recovered from the bad time in a little while and again started making his name in the industry with his unmatched performance.
ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS
- 2012 - ICC One day International Player of the Year award.
- 2012 - People's choice award India for Favorite Sportsperson.
- 2013 - Arjuna Award for Cricket
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