Happy Birthday Virat Kohli! Glimpse Of His Incredible Journey

Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer who plays Test and ODI cricket for the Indian national team

Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi into a Punjabi Hindu family

Kohli retired from the T20 format following India's win at the 2024 T20 World Cup

He's a right-handed batsman and an occasional unorthodox right arm medium bowler

Kohli holds the highest IPL run-scorer record, ranks second in T20I, third in ODI, and stands the fourth-highest in international cricket

He is one of the greatest batsmen of all time, he holds the record for scoring the most centuries in ODI cricket and is second in list of most international centuries scored

Kohli was a member of the Indian team that won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2013 Champions Trophy and 2024 T20 World Cup 

He captained India to win the ICC Test mace three consecutive times in 2017, 2018, and 2019

He represents Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League and Delhi in domestic cricket

In 2013, Kohli was ranked number one in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen and in 2015, he achieved the summit of T20I rankings

In 2018, he was ranked top Test batsman, making him the only Indian cricketer to hold the number one spot in all three formats of the game

He is the first player to score 20,000 runs in a decade and in 2020, the International Cricket Council named him the male cricketer of the decade

Virat got married to Bollywood  actress Anushka Sharma on December 11, 2017

They both got blessed with a baby girl Vamika in year 2021

And in year 2024 the couple had a second child, a boy named Akaay