The Dashing Kohli turns 24...

Virat Kohli,who is currently India's most consistent cricketer, celebrates his 24th birthday today.

For Kohli, who is hailed as the future captain of India, nothing short of a match-winning performance is decent enough. With the ICC ODI player of the year in his bag and his recent form scripting scintillating wins for India, has become a job description that he can proudly highlight in his resume. And it has been a regular feature.

Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi to Prem and Saroj Kohli. He has an elder brother, Vikash, and an elder sister, Bhavna. Virat attended school at Vishal Bharti and Savier Convent. Virat's father, Prem, worked as a lawyer and died in December 2006.

This 24-year old cricketer hogged the headlines when he went to play a Ranji match a day after his father had passed away.

The Delhi boy announced himself as India's gen-next, leading India to the under-19 World Cup in 2008 held in Malaysia.  Batting at number 4, he scored 235 runs in 6 matches at an average of 47, including a century against the West Indies U-19s.

In his 14th one-dayer for India, half of which he had played as a substitute, Virat fastracked his way to his maiden 100. And his Delhi teammate acknowledged his achievement and gave away his Man of the Match to him.

Very soon he has called up for world cup squad and marked a debut hundred in world cup against Bangladesh.He is the first Indian to achieve that honor.

In his three and half years international career Virat achieved lots of milestones.He is the fastest Indian cricketer to reach 1000 runs in ODI. In 2011, he was the highest run getter in ODIs, and this year too he's just 5 runs behind Kumar Sangakkara, the leading run getter.So far he has scored 13 centuries and 12 of them have resulted in India's win and moreover he is the quickest to score 13 centuries in just 86 matches.

After the World Cup win, when Nasser Hussain asked him why he and his teammates carried Sachin Tendulkar on their shoulders, Virat replied: "He has carried us the nation's burden on our shoulders for 21 years. It's time we carried him on our shoulder." #respect 

Despite being a regular in the ODI side, Kohli only played his first Test in 2011 against West Indies in Kingston. But on the disastrous 2011/12 India tour of Australia, in which India's senior batsmen struggled throughout, Kohli stood out, scoring his first Test hundred in Adelaide.

Virat Kholi is quite aggressive in the field, He is one of the Stylish person in the Indian Cricket team.Kohli must endeavour to grow at a similar pace as he moves into a new year. One can only imagine the heights he would scale if he maintains the flow.

At last lets wish the champ HAPPY BIRTHDAY.....:)

Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	10	90	40	121
Runs scored	703	3,886	2,834	5,237
Batting average	41.35	51.81	52.48	51.34
100s/50s	2/5	13/21	9/13	17/28
Top score	116	183	197	183
Balls bowled	66	292	534	350
Wickets	0	2	3	2
Bowling average	–	138.00	96.33	164.00
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	n/a	0	n/a
Best bowling	n/a	1/20	1/19	1/20
Catches/stumpings	14/–	49/–	41/–	65/–

INTERNATIONAL CENTURIES

Test centuries

Virat Kohli's Test centuries
#	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	Against	Venue	Year	Result
1	116	213	11	1	Australia	Adelaide Oval, Australia	2012	Australia won by 298 runs
2	103	193	14	1	New Zealand	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India	2012	India won by 5 wickets

ODI centuries

Virat Kohli's ODI centuries
#	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	Against	Venue	Year	Result
1	107	114	11	1	Sri Lanka	Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India	2009	India won by 7 wickets
2	102*	95	11	0	Bangladesh	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh	2010	India won by 6 wickets
3	118	121	11	1	Australia	ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India	2010	India won by 5 wickets
4	105	104	10	0	New Zealand	Nehru Stadium, Guwahati, India	2010	India won by 40 runs
5	100*	83	8	2	Bangladesh	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh	2011	India won by 87 runs
6	107	93	9	1	England	SWALEC Stadium, Cardiff, Wales	2011	England won by 6 wickets
7	112*	98	16	0	England	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, India	2011	India won by 8 wickets
8	117	123	14	0	West Indies	ACA-VDCA Stadium, Vishakapatnam, India	2011	India won by 5 wickets
9	133*	86	16	2	Sri Lanka	Bellerive Oval, Hobart, Australia	2012	India won by 7 wickets
10	108	120	7	0	Sri Lanka	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh	2012	India won by 50 runs
11	183	148	22	1	Pakistan	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur, Bangladesh	2012	India won by 6 wickets
12	106	113	9	0	Sri Lanka	Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota, Sri Lanka	2012	India won by 21 runs
13	128*	119	12	1	Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka	2012	India won by 6 wickets

RUNS BY YEAR

Year	Match	Run	AVG.	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
2011	34	1381	47.62	85.56	117	4	8	127	7
2010	25	995	47.38	85.11	118	3	7	90	4
2009	10	325	54.16	84.41	107	1	2	36	3
2008	5	159	31.80	66.52	54	0	1	21	1

Records & Achievements

• Fastest Indian Cricketer to reach 1000 runs in ODIs
• Fastest Indian Cricketer to reach 3000 runs in ODIs
• Kohli's 183 runs is highest score by any batsmen in ODI against Pakistan.
• Most runs in a Calendar year in ODIs for 2011
• ICC ODI Cricketer of the year 2012. 

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