Team India’s superstar batsman, legendary captain and sitting at the pinnacle of many records, Virat Kohli has turned 38. He celebrated his 38th birthday on Thursday 5 November. Kohli has been active in international cricket for the last 18 years and has played many memorable innings. But apart from batting, Kohli has also made fans crazy with his style and his many tattoos also have a special role in this. But once he got scolded by the coach for one such tattoo.
On Virat Kohli’s 38th birthday, we have brought for you one such incident related to the early days of his career. This is about those days when Virat Kohli did not come into international cricket. Even at that time he was not in the Under-19 team and had not become world champion. At that time he was testing himself in junior cricket and showing his ability. During that time he got a tattoo, which turned into a memorable event.
Coach got angry over tattooing
Senior sports journalist Vijay Lokapalli has Article I have disclosed this. He told that when Virat Kohli was playing for Delhi in the Under-17 Vijay Merchant Trophy, he had got a tattoo done. This was in 2006 and at that time hardly any player in the Indian cricket team had got any tattoo done on their body. If an unknown player at Under-17 level did this, it was like a ‘cultural shock’. That’s what happened.
Delhi was to face Baroda in the semi-finals of the tournament and Kohli had got this tattoo done a day before this match. After getting the tattoo done, he came to show it to coach Ajit Chaudhary and the coach did not like this step of Kohli at all. He was very angry. In such a situation, he challenged the young batsman to prove his act of tattooing right with a tremendous innings in the semi-finals.
This is how Kohli completed the challenge
Now everyone who has been watching Virat Kohli in international cricket for the last 18 years knows how strongly he responds when challenged. But its foundation had been laid since his junior cricket days and this challenge he received from the coach was also an example of that. Kohli scored a brilliant double century against Baroda in the semi-finals and took the team to the finals by playing an innings of 228 runs. After this innings he again showed his tattoo to the coach. Kohli also played an inning of 60 runs in the final and made the team champion.