The journey of Virat Kohli to King Kohli is one of the epic journeys . The journey started as a talented youngester to one of the greatest batsmen in all formats of the game and one of the best Indian captain India have ever witnessed . The journey is an epic journey .
He came , He played , conquered the quest like a king . His compassion, his dedication , his aggression are his strength . He faced many difficulties , trolls ,hatredness but he never ever lost hope . His passion , His efforts , his hard work , Never let him give up. Faced every thing and back trolled the trolls like a boss.
Kohli began his formal cricketing career for the Polly Umrigar Trophy with the Delhi under 15 teams in October 2002. He won 72 runs and was the top runner-up of his team. He was averaging 34.40. He became the team captain for the same competition next year and won an impressive 390 runs in five posts. Under his leadership, the Delhi of 15 teams enjoyed a number of wins.
In the year 2006, Kohli was selected for the trip of England in India under 19 teams. He was good at the Indians and he won the show.
In this year's first-class cricket, Kohli made his debut in Delhi and scored 10 in his maiden appearances. During this time his dad died of a stroke in his brain. The devotion and professionalism of Kohli to cricket replaced his personal grief. One day after the death of his father, he chose to play for his team against Karnataka. Kohli then played the T-20 format for the team of Delhi which garnered him fame and soon became a $30,000 youth contract member of the Bangalore Royal Challengers team.
Kohli was on a tour of Srilanka and Champions Trophy in 2008 on the Indian Cricket ODI team. In the fourth game, at the age of 19, he scored his first fifty. For an unofficial Australia test tournament, Kohli was taken as a replacement for Shikhar Dhawan, who was injured and hit 49 once. In 2008, though Kohli was a member of the team during India's England Tour, because of Tendulkar and Sehwag he was unable to play in the team. In 2009, he was chosen to compete at the four-team Emerging Players Tournament in Australia.
In most of India's series, Kohli has begun to play but more than permanently and indispensably been considered a replacement for wounded players. But Kohli kept playing incredibly well in the IPL and received awards.
In 2010 Kohli had a chance to play in all five games of the tri-nation ODI competition in Bangladesh as Tendulkar had remained with the team.
When India chased 297 at 51/3, in the match against Bangladesh, Kohli hit 91 for India to win. Kohli performed incredibly well and became the world's third highest rider to register two ODI hundred before his 22nd birthday, Sachin Tendulkar and Suresh Raina being the two first. His excellent performance, particularly by the Indian captain M.S. Dhoni, was honoured.
In the trialogue against Srilanka and Zimbabwe 2010 Kohli was called the deputy captain himself, and there was no backward look. He became the quickest Indian batman in ODI cricket to reach 1000 rounds. Though he often struggled with his form, he was permanently on the Indian team because of his tenacity. After 28 years, he was one of the leading players in the international cup who led India to win.
However, because of the high rates, Kohli gained an ODI player tag and the cricket experts didn't consider him to be a test player. When he did 132 on the Australian test tour in 2011, he proved everybody wrong. During the 2014/15 series against Australia, Dhoni was unanimously selected to compete in tests with his constant performance and aggressive styling.
Kohli began a string of records with 1000 ODIs as the third batsman in the globe before he turned 22. In 2013, after Dhoni was wounded and ruled unsuitable to play, Kohli became captain of the Indian triangle cricket team in West Indies. Kohli scored his first 100 as a skipper with 102 of the 83 balls in the second match of the competition. Kohli reached the third fastest ODI century, breaking the 100 run mark in 61 balls in the seven-patch ODI series against Australia. Kohli was the quickest batman to win 5000 runs in ODI in the two-game test series against Western Indian as the last Tendulkar test series.
Virat Kohli has given his achievements and mentoring by former Indian captain Bishan Singh Bedi, to his coach Rajkumar Sharma. Such an amazing achievement of accomplishment could not have swept Kohli away. He continues to be a very humble person, an example for India's youngsters. He was recently ranked the 8th most popular ESPN sportsmen in the world by sportsmen such as Christiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Roger Federer etc. He was ranked eight. And he belongs to that.
