Virat Kohli IPL Profile

Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer who represents Delhi in domestic cricket and India in international cricket. He is the former captain of Indian cricket team and also formerly captained Royal Challengers Bangalore in Indian Premier League. He has been on the books of Royal Challengers Bangalore since 2008 and remains a star player for the Bangalore franchise. He was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi.

Kohli is a right-hand top-order batsman who usually bats at number three but has played as an opener in T20 cricket, mostly in IPL. He is also capable of bowling right-arm medium fast. Widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, Kohli holds the records for scoring most runs in T20 internationals and in the IPL.

In 2020, the International Cricket Council named him the male cricketer of the decade. Kohli has also contributed to a number of India's successes, including winning the 2011 World Cup and the 2013 Champions trophy. 

Kohli made his international debut in 2008 and quickly became a key player in the ODI team and later made his Test debut in 2011. In 2013, Kohli reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time. In 2018, he became the world's top-ranked Test batsman, making him the only Indian cricketer to hold the number one spot in all three formats of the game.

In 2019, he became the first player to score 20,000 international runs in a single decade. Virat Kohli is married to famous Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma and the two have a daughter named Vamika and named their son Akaay, born in 2024.