Virat Kohli (About this sound pronunciation (help·info)) (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian cricketer. He is the captain of the Indian Test cricket team.A middle-order batsman, who can also bowl right-arm medium pace, Kohli captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia, and is the captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise in the Indian Premier League.He also represents Delhi in first-class cricket and played for the West Delhi Cricket Academy. In One Day International (ODI) cricket, Kohli holds the record for the fastest century by an Indian batsman,and became the fastest to 17 hundreds in ODI by any batsman.He is the fourth batsman in ODIs after Sourav Ganguly (1997–2000), Sachin Tendulkar (1996–98) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007–09) to hit 1000 or more ODI runs in three or more consecutive calendar years.He also holds the record for most centuries in chases, with 11 centuries, behind only Sachin Tendulkar. He is the first batsman to make five successive scores of 50 or more in ODIs on two separate occasions.

Kohli made his ODI debut in 2008 and was part of the Indian team which won the 2011 World Cup. Despite being a regular in the ODI side, Kohli only played his first Test in 2011 against West Indies in Kingston. But on the disastrous 2011/12 India tour of Australia, in which India’s senior batsmen struggled throughout, Kohli stood out, scoring his first Test hundred in Adelaide.

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