Virat Kohli Birthday Week: This is Viral Kohli’s journey from zero to successful cricketer

Today we are going to know the journey of Virat Kohli, everyone knows the famous cricketer Virat Kohli in today’s time but you might not know his success story. Do you know that he worked hard to get into the Indian team.

Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988, Virat Kohli belongs to a Punjabi family. His mother’s name was Saroj Kohli and his father’s name was Prem Kohli, Virat Kohli has three sisters and brothers. He also has an elder sister and an elder brother. Virat Kohli was educated at Vishal Bharti School.

According to the family of Virat Kohli, he took the bat in his hand at the age of 3. Since childhood, Virat liked to play cricket. He would often ask his father to bowl and play with him and seeing his son’s interest in cricket, his father asked Virat Kohli to join the West Delhi Cricket Academy.

This is how Virat started his career

The name Virat Kohli is very famous in the cricket world for this reason because Virat Kohli has gained a lot of popularity as fast as he scored runs in cricket. And cricket experts say they consider Virat Kohli the future Sachin Tendulkar Because Virat Kohli bats with great intelligence like Sachin Tendulkar recently, Virat Kohli has been made the captain of all three formats after the famous cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni stepped down from all formats.

After a lot of hard work, in July 2006, Virat Kohli was selected for the Under-19 of the Indian team. Virat Kohli’s first overseas tour was in England. He performed very well in three ODIs in England itself, after which Virat Kohli was made the captain of India’s Under-19 team in 2008. Virat Kohli was to captain the Under-19 World Cup to be held in Malaysia and he performed very well.

In the year 2009, Virat Kohli was selected for the Indian cricket team for the tour of Shri Lanka, at the beginning of this tour he got a chance to play for Team A of Team India.

Then after that, both the batsmen of the Indian team ‘Virender Sehwag’ and ‘Sachin Tendulkar’ were injured a lot. Because of this Virat Kohli got a chance to play in the Indian team for the first time in his place. In this tour, he scored his first ODI half-century and India won the series.

Then after this match Virat Kohli never looked back, he gained popularity by playing cricket in a very short time. Virat Kohli has led the Indian team to the top during his captaincy.

Awards are given to Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli had to face many problems to get so much success in his life. And even after that he remained in controversies but seeing his contribution to cricket, he has been awarded with many awards.

2012 – ICC ODI Player of the Year Award
2013 – Arjuna Award for Cricket
2017 – Padma Shri Award

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