The heart-throb sportsman of the country, Virat Kohli has turned 27 today. Crictoday wishes a very happy birthday to Indian Test skipper
. Virat have had a brilliant run with his willow ever since he made his appearance in world cricket. Here are some of his achievements and facts from his cricketing career.
. Virat have had a brilliant run with his willow ever since he made his appearance in world cricket. Here are some of his achievements and facts from his cricketing career.
· 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.
· He was part of the Indian squad that won the 2011 World Cup.
· He made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka in the year 2015.
· Kohli played his first Test in 2011 against the West Indies at Kingston.
· By 2013, he 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. Later that year, he became the top-ranked T20I batsman in the ICC rankings.
· 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 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 has been the recipient of many awards such as the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012 and the BCCI's international cricketer of the year for the 2011–12 season.
· In 2013, he was given the Arjuna Award in recognition of his achievements in international cricket.
· SportsPro, a UK magazine, rated Kohli as the second most marketable athlete in the world in 2014.
He is also a co-owner of the ISL team FC Goa and the IPTL franchise UAE Royals.
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