{"id":4322,"date":"2019-04-17T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2019-04-17T16:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:52:31","slug":"funny-moments-of-virat-kohli-in-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/funny-moments-of-virat-kohli-in-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Moments of Virat Kohli in Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer who currently captains the India national team. A right-handed top-order batsman, Kohli is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the world. He plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League and has been the team&#8217;s captain since 2013. Born and raised in\u00a0Delhi, Kohli represented the city&#8217;s\u00a0cricket team\u00a0at various age-group levels before making his\u00a0first-class\u00a0debut in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in\u00a0Delhi\u00a0into a\u00a0Punjabi\u00a0family.<sup id=\"cite_ref-20\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> His father, Prem Kohli, worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli, is a housewife. <sup id=\"cite_ref-ToI2008_21-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>He has an older brother, Vikas, and an older sister, Bhavna. <sup id=\"cite_ref-22\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>According to his family, when he was three-years-old, Kohli would pick up a cricket bat, start swinging it and ask his father to bowl at him.<\/p>\n<p>Look at this video and you will enjoy some of the funny moments of Virat Kohli.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VIw8rqm40c8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VIw8rqm40c8<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kohli&#8217;s\u00a0nickname is Cheeku. Former Delhi coach Ajit Chaudhary gave him the name when he joined the Delhi Ranji team.<\/li>\n<li>He captained the India Under-19 team to the U-19 World Cup in 2008.<\/li>\n<li>In 2006, he was\u00a0playing a Ranji match against Karnataka when his father passed away. But he\u00a0batted on the next day and scored 90 runs.<\/li>\n<li>He made his ODI debut in 2008 and was part of the 2011 World Cup winning team.<\/li>\n<li>Playing against Bangladesh in the 2011 World Cup opener, he became the first and only Indian to score a century on World Cup debut.<\/li>\n<li>In 2012, he was named the ICC ODI Cricketer\u00a0of the Year. At the age of 23!<\/li>\n<li>Kohli has 4\u00a0tattoos on his body, including a golden dragon and a samurai warrior on his hand. They\u00a0are supposed\u00a0to bring him good luck.<\/li>\n<li>His favorite recipe? Mutton biryani and kheer. Especially when it&#8217;s cooked by his mother.<\/li>\n<li>He was honored with the Arjuna Award by President Pranab Mukherjee in 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer who currently captains the India national team. A right-handed top-order batsman, Kohli is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the world. He plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League and has been the team&#8217;s captain since 2013. Born and raised in\u00a0Delhi, Kohli represented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[128,335,306,94,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-4322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-funny","8":"tag-funny","9":"tag-funny-moment","10":"tag-funny-moment-in-cricket","11":"tag-funny-video","12":"tag-funny-videos"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/virat-kohli.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-17I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4322\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}