Virat Kohli ; conceived 5 November 1988) is an Indian global cricketer and previous commander of the Indian public cricket crew. He plays for Delhi in homegrown cricket and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League as a right-given batsman.
He is in many cases thought about as one of the most outstanding batsmen of his period and is broadly viewed as one of the best all-design batsmen ever Between 2013 and 2022, he captained the India cricket crew in 213 matches across each of the three arrangements. With 40 successes out of 68 matches, Kohli is one of the best Indian Test chiefs.
Kohli made his Test debut in 2011. He arrived at the main spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen without precedent for 2013. He has won Man of the Tournament two times at the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016). He likewise holds the world record of being the quickest to 23,000 global runs.
Kohli has been the beneficiary of many honors most prominently the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Men's Cricketer of the Decade): 2011-2020; Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2017 and 2018; ICC Test Player of the Year (2018); ICC ODI Player of the Year (2012, 2017, 2018) and Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World (2016, 2017 and 2018). At the public level, he was granted the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma Shri under the games class in 2017 and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna grant, the most elevated wearing distinction in India, in 2018.
In 2016, he was positioned as one of the world's most popular competitors by ESPN and one of the most significant competitor brands by Forbes. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most persuasive individuals on the planet. In 2020, he was positioned 66th in Forbes rundown of the best 100 most generously compensated competitors on the planet for the year 2020 with an assessed profit of more than $26 million.