Virat Kohli is certainly one of the best skippers who have ever led the Indian cricket team and it is also true that he is one of the best batters of all times. For the past some time, the former skipper of the IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore has been making headlines due to his decision of leaving the test captaincy despite being the most successful test captain as the Indian side has played 68 test matches under his leadership and won 40 out of them.
Virat Kohli became famous when Under-19 Indian cricket team won the Under-19 ICC World Cup under his leadership in the year 2008 and since then, he has grown from strength to strength. India has won four Under-19 World Cups, Virat Kohli was the second Indian under-19 skipper under whose captaincy the Indian squad won the World Cup, the first Indian Under-19 skipper was Mohammad Kaif (2000) and the third and the fourth skippers were Unmukt Chand (2012) and Prithvi Shaw (2018), respectively.
Though we have not seen Virat Kohli bowling much in his cricketing career, an introductory video from the times of his Under-19 World Cup days is going viral in which he is introducing himself as a middle-order batsman, right-arm quick bowler and at that time, his favorite cricketer was South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs.
Here is the video:
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In the Under-19 World Cup 2008, Virat Kohli got only wicket and that was of New Zealand’s Kane Williamson whom he dismissed in the semi-finals. If we talk about his overall international career, he has taken only 8 wickets in total in all the formats of the game.
The Indian cricket team will be facing West Indies in the 3-match ODI series at home starting Feb 6 (tomorrow) and every Indian cricket fan will love to see Virat Kohli scoring a century as it has been nearly 2 years that he has scored a century.