Virat Kholi
- Born : 5th November 1988
- From : Delhi, India
- Nickname : Cheeku
- Height : 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
- Batting style : Right-handed
- Bowling style : Right-arm medium
- Role : Batsman, India captain
- Official Website : www.viratkohli.club
Virat Kohli, born in 5th November 1988. He is an Indian International Cricketer, who currently captains the India national team. A right-handed batsman often regarded as one of the best batsmen in the world, Virat Kohli was ranked eighth in ESPN's list of world's most famous athletes in 2016. He plays for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL), and has been the team's captain since 2013.
Virat Kohli was born on 5th November 1988 in Delhi into a Punjabi family. His father Prem Kohli worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother Saroj Kohli is a housewife. He has an elder brother Vikash (Author Note : My Name is vikash Kumar also) and an elder sister Bhavna. According to his family when he was three-years old Kohli would pick up a cricket bat and start swinging it and ask his father to bowl at him.
Kohli was raised in Uttam Nagar and started his schooling at Vishal Bharti Public School. In 1998 the West Delhi Cricket Academy was created and Virat Kohli a nine-year-old was part of its first intake. Kohli's father took him to the academy after their neighbours suggested that "Virat shouldn't waste his time in gully cricket and instead join a professional club". Kohli trained at the academy under Rajkumar Sharma and also played matches at the Sumeet Dogra Academy at Vasundhara Enclave at the same time. Sharma recounts Kohli's early days at his academy, "He oozed talent. It was so difficult to keep him quiet. He was a natural in whatever he did and I was most impressed with his attitude. He was ready to bat at any spot, and I had to literally push him home after the training sessions. He just wouldn’t leave." In ninth grade, he shifted to Savier Convent in Paschim Vihar to help his cricket practice. Apart from sports, Kohli was good at academics as well, and his teachers remember him as "a bright and alert child". Kohli's family lived in Meera Bagh until 2015 when they moved to Gurgaon.
