In this 3-minute video, know the biography of Virat Kohli and his records, which you might not know about till date.

Rajasthan News Desk!!! Whenever there is talk of cricket in the world, the name of King of Cricket Virat Kohli comes first. Virat Kohli is one of the greatest batsmen of all time in the world, before whom the entire world cricket bows down. But Kohli's path to becoming Virat was not so easy, today behind Virat Kohli's reaching the pinnacle of greatness in cricket, years of hard struggle and hard work are hidden.

So let us take you on the exciting journey of Virat Kohli which made him a source of inspiration for every player. Virat Kohli was born on November 5, 1988 in a Punjabi family of Delhi. Virat's father Prem Kohli was a lawyer by profession and his mother Saroj Kohli is a housewife. When Virat Kohli was just three years old, cricket bat was his favorite toy. Virat held the bat for the first time at the age of nine and started learning the nuances of cricket under the tutelage of his childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma. In the year 2002, Virat Kohli entered domestic cricket and performed brilliantly while playing the first match of his career for the Delhi Under-15 team and on the basis of this, he was soon given the command of the team.

After impressing with the bat in the under-15s, Kohli was selected for the Vijay Merchant Trophy, where he left a lasting impression with both his bat and captaincy. In seven matches of this tournament, Kohli made his team the champion by scoring seven hundred and fifty-seven runs. And during this period, two centuries also came from Kohli's bat. In the year 2006, Virat started his List A career against Services, while he played his first match in first class cricket for Delhi against Tamil Nadu.

During a Ranji Trophy match in 2006, Virat had to face the worst incident of his life. On 19 December 2006, when Kohli was playing a home match between Delhi and Karnataka at Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi. So as soon as the first day's play was over, he got the news that his father Prem Kohli's health had deteriorated and he was immediately called back home. Immediately after which Kohli left the field and his teammates and left for home, but the same night Kohli's father died of a heart attack. Although Virat had to take the field the next morning, now Virat was faced with his father's death on one side and his cricket career on the other. After much hesitation, he decided to enter the field and saved the team from follow-on by playing an innings of 90 runs against Karnataka. After winning the match for his team, Virat attended his father's funeral. However, this one night completely changed Virat's life and perhaps the real journey of Kohli's career began from here. After this, Kohli's game changed completely, Kohli made a lot of headlines in the country and abroad by making the Indian team under-19 champion under his captaincy in the year 2008. Virat Kohli entered the IPL due to his strong performance in the under-nineteen and Royal Challengers Bangalore made a big bet worth crores on him. Virat Kohli still plays for IPL team RCB. Then came the year in Kohli's career when his dream of wearing the blue jersey came true.

Virat Kohli stepped onto the international cricket pitch for the first time in the year 2008. King Kohli, who made his international debut through ODI, gradually made his place in the team in all three formats. King Kohli entered T20 International in 2010 and Test cricket in 2011. Virat Kohli also became a part of the ODI World Cup winning team of 2011 and the Champions Trophy winning team of 2013. While on one hand Virat Kohli was reaching new heights in cricket, on the other hand he was also in the news all over the world for his personal life. During this time, Virat Kohli's name started being linked with Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma. It is said that Virat and Anushka first met during a shampoo commercial in the year 2013. And this was the year when Virat Kohli was made the captain of IPL team RCB.

When Mahendra Singh Dhoni suddenly announced his retirement from Test cricket after the poor performance of the Indian team in the Test series on the Australia tour in the year 2014, Virat Kohli became the Test captain. According to an interview, when Virat Kohli got the news of becoming the captain, he got emotional and started crying in front of Anushka Sharma. This brilliant journey of Virat Kohli continued like this and in 2017 he got the ODI captaincy of Team India and after this the command of T20 International also came into his hands. Virat Kohli became the captain of Team India in all three formats. 2017 was also the year when Virat Kohli, keeping his relationship with Anushka Sharma a secret for years, got married in Italy on 11th December.

On one hand, there was happiness in personal life and on the other hand, Virat Kohli was showing talent in his batting as well as captaincy. Under his leadership, Team India reached the semi-finals in the ODI World Cup of 2019. Not only this, during the Australia tour, he also achieved the feat of making India win the Test series for the first time. Under the captaincy of Virat, India played the final of the World Test Championship in 2021 and 2021 was also the year when Virat Kohli got some more happy moments in his personal life and daughter Vamika was born. To make this special moment memorable, Virat Kohli also took a break from cricket. A bad phase in Virat Kohli's career was seen during 2020-21, when he did not score a century with his bat. But then on September 8, 2022, Kohli ended the century drought against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup in Dubai. This was Kohli's first century in T20 International and the seventy-first century of his career. It took Kohli three years to reach the next century from his seventy-first century, but as soon as this drought ended, Kohli once again told the world why he is called the King.

Virat Kohli performed brilliantly in the 2023 ODI World Cup in India and broke Sachin Tendulkar's record of most forty-nine ODI centuries, something the whole world was waiting for for a long time. During this time, Virat Kohli celebrated his fiftieth ODI century by bowing to Sachin Tendulkar in the presence of him at the Wankhede ground in Mumbai. The year 2024 has been very important for Virat Kohli, this year where he became a father for the second time and son Akay was born to him. So in the same year itself, Virat announced his retirement from T20 International cricket after making India win the T20 World Cup title. Even after retirement, Virat is the biggest and important player of Team India. Virat Kohli's international career has been brilliant so far. He has scored eight thousand nine hundred forty seven runs in one hundred and fifteen test matches, Kohli has scored twenty nine centuries and thirty half centuries in tests. In ODI, Kohli has scored thirteen thousand nine hundred and six runs in two hundred and ninety-five matches. Also, he has scored fifty centuries and seventy-two half-centuries in ODIs. In T20 International, he has four thousand one hundred and eighty eight runs in his name in one hundred and twenty five matches. Virat Kohli is known as run machine. He has made many amazing records, which include the record of scoring the fastest ten thousand, eleven thousand and twelve thousand runs in Test and ODI cricket. Virat Kohli is the batsman who has scored most fifty centuries in ODI cricket. Virat Kohli holds the record by scoring the maximum number of twenty-seven centuries in successful run chases in ODIs. Kohli has scored seven Test double centuries as captain. Kohli has achieved the feat of winning the maximum of forty Tests. Kohli has achieved the feat of scoring the maximum number of nine hundred and seventy-three runs in an IPL season. Apart from this, Kohli has also scored centuries on forty-six different grounds.

Virat Kohli has received many honors so far, which include Arjuna Award in 2013, ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012 and 2017, Padma Shri in 2017, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2018, and Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy Award etc. . Not only this, Virat is counted among the rich cricketers of the world. According to media reports, Kohli's total wealth is around Rs 1,46 crore. Talking about Virat's source of income, he gets a huge salary from BCCI, along with this he also earns crores from every season of IPL. Apart from this, he also earns a lot from advertisements and different businesses. Virat lives a luxury life, due to which he has a collection of many expensive cars and luxurious houses.