Virat Kohli
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- Former captain Virat Kohli completes 14 years playing for the India team
- He played his first one-day match against Sri Lanka on this day
- Kohli will be seen returning to India’s Asian Cup team.
Virat Kohli ODI debut: Virat Kohli, the former captain of the India team, may not be playing for the India team at the moment and is resting, but today is a very special day for him. Virat Kohli started his ODI career that day. This match was with Sri Lanka. Although he couldn’t play big innings in the first match, but since the small innings, he was expected to play big innings in the next half. Today it has been 14 years since Virat Kohli made his ODI debut.
Virat Kohli made his international debut under the captaincy of the MS Dhoni
On August 18, 2008, Virat Kohli made his ODI debut in Sri Lanka under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. In that match, captain Dhoni gave him the opening responsibility to Virat Kohli. He entered the field for the opening with the left-handed batsman Gautam Gambhir. While Gautam Gambhir was ruled out for nil in this match, Virat Kohli took some time. He scored 12 runs on 22 balls in this match and was sacked by Sri Lankan bowler Kulasekara. As far as this match is concerned, in Kohli’s debut match, the India team had to face a crushing loss by eight wickets. The entire Indian team was able to score only 146 runs and Sri Lanka achieved this goal in 34.5 overs with the loss of two wickets and won the match by eight wickets.
For the first time, Kohli had the chance to make his ODI debut.
The special thing about Virat Kohli was that he started his international debut from the ODI itself. After this, he made his T20 debut in the year 2010 and in the year 2011 he had the opportunity to play the first test match. Virat Kohli was not a big star until that time, but just a year before this, Kohli won the U-19 World Cup under his captaincy, so cricket fans began to know him. After this match, Kohli never looked back, another thing is that in this cricket career of almost 14 years, Kohli saw many ups and downs, but his total focus was always on his game. Now Virat Kohli will be seen coming back from Asia Cup 2022. On August 28 there is a match between India and Pakistan, in which they will be seen playing.
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