| Name(s) |
VIRAT KOHLI |
| Date of
Birth |
November 05, 1988 |
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Identity |
Indian cricketer |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 2006: He made his
first-class cricket debut.
- 2008: He captained India
Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in
Malaysia.
- September 30, 2009: Man of the
Match in ODI against West Indies.
- January 11, 2010: Man of the
Match in ODI against Bangladesh.
- October 20, 2010: Man of the
Match in ODI against Australia.
- November 28, 2010: Man of the
Match in ODI against New Zealand.
- June 08, 2011: Man of the Match
in ODI against West Indies.
- June 20, 2011: He made his
Test debut (against West Indies).
- August 18, 2008: He made his ODI
debut (against Sri Lanka).
- June 12, 2010: He made his
T20I debut (against Zimbabwe).
- October 17, 2011: Man of
the Match in ODI against England.
- December 02, 2011: Man of
the Match in ODI against West Indies.
- 2012: Appointed Vice
Captain of the Indian ODI team.
- February 28, 2012: Man of
the Match in ODI against Sri Lanka.
- March 13, 2012: Man of the
Match in ODI against Sri Lanka.
- March 18, 2012: Man of the Match
in ODI against Pakistan. On this day, India defeated
Pakistan while chasing latter's mammoth score of 329. This
feat was made possible mainly by Virat Kohli, who scored 183
his ODI highest so far. Other contributors to this
immaculate win were the half centuries by Sachin Tendulkar
and Rohit Sharma.
- July 21, 2012: Man of the Match
in ODI against Sri Lanka.
- July 31, 2012: Man of the Match
in ODI against Sri Lanka.
- September 03, 2012: Man of
the Match in Test match against New Zealand.
- September 19, 2012: Man of the
Match in T20I against Afghanistan.
- Septembr 30, 2012: Man of
the Match in T20I against Pakistan.
- 2013: He reached the number
one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen.
- January 19, 2013: Man of
the Match in ODI against England.
- July 05, 2013: Man of the Match
in ODI against West Indies.
- July 24, 2013: Man of the Match
in ODI against Zimbabwe.
- October 30, 2013: Man of
the Match in ODI against Australia.
- November 21, 2013: Man of
the Match in ODI against West Indies.
- December 22, 2013: Man of the
Match in Test match against South Africa.
- 2014: He became the
top-ranked T20I batsman in the ICC rankings and holds the
position, as of August 2016.
- 2014: After Dhoni's Test
retirement, he was made the Captain of the Indian test team.
- February 26, 2014: Man of
the Match in ODI against Bangladesh.
- April 04, 2014: Man of the Match
in T20I against South Africa.
- September 07, 2014: In a T20
match against England, he became the most successful Indian
batsman in T20 Internationals, overtaking Yuvraj Singh, the
hero of India's triumph at the World T20 in 2007 in South
Africa. Kohli, with nine fifties, now has the most
half-centuries by an Indian in T20 Internationals and has
the most runs (971), after breaking another record held by
Yuvraj.
- October 17, 2014: Man of
the Match in ODI against West Indies at Dharamshala.
- January 08, 2015: He scored a
test century against Australia in Australia. With this, he
became the first Test skipper in cricket history to score
three hundreds in his first three innings.
- February 15, 2015: Man of
the Match in ODI against Pakistan.
- October 22, 2015: Man of
the Match in ODI against South Africa.
- January 17, 1916: He scored a
century in ODI match against Australia in Australia.
- January 20, 2016: He scored a
century in ODI match against Australia in Australia. On this
day, he was involved in a 200-run partnership for the eighth
time, the most by any cricketer in ODIs, eclipsing the
previous best of seven each by Sri Lankan Upul Tharanga and
Australia’s Ricky Ponting. Virat alongside Shikhar Dhawan
put on 212 runs for the second wicket against the Kangaroos
at Canberra in a losing cause in January 2016.
- January 26, 2016: Man of the
Match in T20I against Australia.
- January 29, 2016: Man of the
Match in T20I against Australia.
- February 28, 2016: Man of
the Match in T20I against Pakistan.
- March 01, 2016: Man of the
Match in T20I against Sri Lanka.
- March 19, 2016: Man of the Match
in T20I against Pakistan.
- March 27, 2016: Man of the
Match in T20I against Australia.
- April 03, 2016: He was
declared player of World T20 tournament at the conclusion of
the ICC World Twenty20 2016 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
- This was the second successive time
Kohli has won the award, after he was also named as the
player of the 2014 tournament in Bangladesh following his
319 runs which helped India reach the final.
- April 24, 2016: He scored a
century in IPL T20 match as RCB Captain against Gujarat
Lions.
- May 07, 2016: He scored a
century in IPL T20 match as RCB Captain against Rising Pune
SperGiants.
- October 09, 2016: He scored a
double century in third cricket test match against New
Zealand.
- October 11, 2016: Indian
captain Virat Kohli was presented with the ICC Test
Championship mace for leading his team to the top of the
Test Team Rankings. The mace was presented by former India
captain and ICC Cricket Hall of Famer
Sunil
Gavaskar at a ceremony following the conclusion of the
third and final Test against New Zealand in Indore after the
home team completed a 3-0 whitewash.
- December 11, 2016: Playing
against England in a test match at Wankhede Stadium n
Mumbai, India, he scored his third double century.
Interestingly, all these 3 double centuries came during the
2016 calendar year. So he became the first Indian and fifth
in the world to achieve this feat. Moreover, Test average
surpassed over 50. He became the first and only player to
have an average of over 50 in all three formats of
international cricket.
- October 2016: Kohli's brand
value was pegged at $92 million (second only to Shah Rukh
Khan - $131 million), according to Oct, 2016 report on
India's most valued celebrity brands published by Duff and
Phelps, a global valuation and corporate finance advisory
firm.
- January 06, 2017: He has
been nominated as Captain of the Indian ODI as well as T20I
teams also.
- February 10, 2017: by
hitting 4th double century in the test match against
Bangladesh at Hyderabd, Virat Kohli has become the first
batsman to score double centuries in four successive Test
series surpassing legendary Sir Donald Bradman and Rahul
Dravid. Sir Bradman and Rahul Dravid achieved the feat
in three successive series. Kohli also went past Virender
Sehwag's record of most runs in a home season by aggregating
1168 runs in the current season, with the aid of four
centuries and two half-centuries.
- February 19, 2017: He
became the first Indian sports personality to strike a Rs
100-crore endorsement deal with a single brand. He signed an
eight-year deal with sports apparel brand Puma worth Rs 110
crore.
- May 30, 2017: Only four
Indians feature in ESPN's World Fame 100, a list ranking the
world's 100 most famous athletes. Virat Kohli, ranked 13th,
is followed by MS Dhoni at 15th place, while Yuvraj Singh
and Suresh Raina are ranked 90th and 95th, respectively.
- June 15, 2017: He became
the fastest to 8,000 ODI runs, accomplishing the feat in his
175th innings in the Champions Trophy semi-final against
Bangladesh. He is the 8th Indian to aggregate 8,000 ODI
runs.
- July 07, 2017: He scored
his 18th ODI hundred in run chases, the most by any batsman
in ODI history. Kohli achieved the feat in 102 innings
during the fifth ODI against Windies, overtaking Sachin
Tendulkar who had 17 tons in 232 innings batting second.
- July 28, 2017: He became
the fastest Indian captain to score 1,000 runs in overseas
Test matches in just 17 innings. He surpassed the record of
Sachin Tendulkar who had reached the milestone in his 19th
innings. He became the seventh Indian captain to score
1,000-plus overseas Test runs.
- July 29, 2017: He the only
batsman in the world with an average of over 50 across all
three formats:
- T20Is - 52.96 (highest in the wiorld)
- ODIs - 54.68 (second-highest in the world)
- Test Matches - 50.03
- August 15, 2017: He
completed his 7th Test win away from home, surpassing former
captain MS Dhoni's tally of six. He is now behind only
Sourav Ganguly's record tally of 11 out of country wins for
an Indian captain.
- August 20, 2017: He scored
his 44th ODI fifty on this day against Sri Lanka; India won
the match.
- August 31, 2017: He scored
his 29th ODI century becoming the third on the list of most
centuries in ODI history.
- He scored his 17th international hundred as captain,
overtaking Sourav Ganguly's record of 16 hundreds as
Team India skipper. Australia's Ricky Ponting holds the
record for most centuries scored as captain, at 41.
- He became the first player to be part of 10 ODI
double-century stands. This was Kohli's third 200-plus
partnership with Sharma. Other batsmen to have shared a
200-plus stand with Kohli are Gautam Gambhir, Virender
Sehwag, Kedar Jadhav, Ajinkya Rahane and Shikhar Dhawan.
- September 03, 2017:
He crossed 1000 ODI runs mark in the calendar
year 2017 during the fifth ODI against Sri Lanka. This was
the fifth time Kohli crossed 1000 ODI runs in a year, having
done it before in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Sachin
Tendulkar holds the world record for scoring 1000+ runs in a
calendar year 7 times.
- On this day, he also scored his 30th ODI century
against Sri Lanka. He is now only behind Sachin
Tendulkar who scored 49 tons in his 463-match ODI
career. He reached this landmark in his 186th innings,
thereby becoming the fastest to 30 ODI centuries.
- September 06, 2017: In his
milestone 50th T20 international, he reached 15,000
international runs in just 304 matches and becoming the
fastest to do so. He became the 33rd player to reach 15,000
runs and the only one with an average of above 50.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- A middle-order right handed batsman.
- He captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19
Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia.
- Presently he is the
captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise in the
IPL.
- He also represents Delhi in first-class cricket.
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Awards & Accolades |
- ICC ODI Player of the Year: 2012
- ICC World ODI XI: 2012, 2014
- BCCI's Polly Umrigar Award for international cricketer
of the year: 2011–12, 2014–15
- Arjuna Award: 2013
- CEAT International Cricketer of the Year: 2011–12,
2013–14
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Records |
- Fastest century by an Indian cricketer in ODIs (in 52
balls)
- Fastest Indian to reach 1,000 runs in ODIs
- Fastest Indian and third fastest in the world to reach
4,000 runs in ODIs
- Fastest Indian and second fastest in the world to reach
5,000 runs in ODIs
- Fastest Indian and second fastest in the world to reach
6,000 runs in ODIs
- Fastest in the world to reach 7,000 runs in ODIs
- Fastest Indian and second fastest in the world to reach
10 centuries in ODIs
- Fastest Indian and second fastest in the world to reach
15 centuries in ODIs
- Fastest Indian and second fastest in the world to reach
20 centuries in ODIs
- Fastest in the world to reach 25 centuries in ODIs
- Fastest in the world to reach 1,000 runs in T20Is
- Most ODI runs in 2010 by an Indian cricketer
- Most ODI runs in 2011 by any cricketer
Most ODI runs in 2012 by an Indian cricketer
- Most ODI runs in 2013 by an Indian cricketer
- Most ODI runs in 2014 by an Indian cricketer
- Most Test runs in 2012 by an Indian cricketer
- First cricketer to score three centuries in his first
three innings as Test captain
- First Indian Test captain to score a double hundred
overseas.
- He is the only batsman to have an average of above 50 in
T20 Internationals (as of Oct, 2016).
- First batsman to make five successive scores of 50 or
more in ODIs on two separate occasions.
- Fastest ODI hundred by an Indian: 52 balls (Jaipur)
against Australia in 2013.
- First captain in Test cricket to hit three hundreds in
first three innings.
- First batsman to score more than 900 runs in a single
IPL edition.
- The Only batsman to score three hundreds in a single IPL
season.
- Fastest to complete 7000 runs: 161 innings.
- Quickest to 24 hundreds: 161 innings.
- First Indian captain to score two double hundreds in
Tests.
- Fastest to 25 ODI hundreds:162 innings.
- He is the first batsman to score 4
double-centuries in 4 consecutive Test series. This is the
longest such sequence going past Rahul Dravid and Don
Bradman who have done it in three back-to-back series.
- The fastest to score 10000 runs in ODI cricket.
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