VIRAT KOHLI

training in cricket and supported his cricket

during his childhood. Virat lost his father in
2006 due to a stroke. Kohli tied the knot with
Bollywood actress Aushka Sharma in 2017.

Records
Virat Kohli has the best ever Test, ODI and
Twenty20 International rating of any Indian
Biography - About Virat Kohli batsman. Kohli is a chase master and has the
highest number of centuries in run-chases in
Virat Kohli made his debut for the senior
the world. He is also the fastest batsman to
national side against India in 2008. His
10,000 and 11,000 runs in ODI cricket having
performance soon made him a regular in
achieved the milestones in 205 and 222
the squad and earned him a spot in the
innings respectively.
2011 ICC World Cup. The same year he
made his Test debut. The next year he
was appointed the vice-captain of the
ODI team and in 2014, he was given the
Test captaincy following Dhoni's
retirement from Tests. In 2017, Dhoni
stepped down from the position of the
ODI captain and Virat was passed on the
baton. With numerous awards and
records to his name, combined with
consistent great performances has surely Awards and Accolades
put Virat Kohli in the league of one of the
best batsman specially in the limited over ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2012, 217 and
cricket. 2018. In 2017 and 2018, he was awarded the
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of
Family the Year). In 2018, he also got the award of
ICC Test Player of the Year. He was Wisden
Virat Kohli is born Leading Cricketer in the World in 2016, 2017
November5,1988. Virat Kohli's father, and 2018. He got the Arjuna Award in 2013,
Prem Kohli worked as a criminal lawyer the Padma Shri in 2017 and the Rajiv Gandhi
and his mother, Saroj Kohli, is a Khel Ratna in 2018.
housewife. He has two older siblings,
brother, Vikas and, sister, Bhavna. Kohli's
father ensured that Virat got proper
 2008 — ODI Debut against Lanka
Achievements

2008 - Won the 2008 11-19

Domestic Career
Worldcup.
2008 — Joined Royal Challenger Kohli started training at the West Delhi
Cricket Academy in 1998. He started
Bangalore. playing for Delhi Under-15 team in 2002.
2010 - T20 Debut against He became the captain of the team for the
200304 Polly Umrigar Trophy. He played in
Zimbabure.
the 2003-04 Vijay Merchant Trophy as a
2011 -Won the 2011 ICCWorld part of the Delhi Under17 team. His List A
cup. debut came in 2006 against Services. The
same year he was selected in the India
2011 — Test debut against West Under-19 squad. He also made his first class
indies. debut for Delhi against.

2012 — Vice Captain of India Game ODIs TESTs T20s

ODI team. type
M 301 128 156
2012 - ICC ODI player of the year INN 78 30 42
2013 — Nol bastsman in OVERS 200 67 63
RUNS 1808 160 300
ODIRanking. 2014 -Man of the
WKTS 7 0 8
Tournament at 2014 ICC World AVG 166.25 0 49.50
T20. ECO 6.22 2.84 8.14
2014 — Appointed Test Captain. BEST 15/1 0 13/1
5ws 0 0 0
2015 — Played in the 2015 ICC
100ws 0 0 0
Worldcup.
T20s 0 0 0
2016 — Man of the Tournament at
2016 ICC World T20.
Tamil Nadu the same year. In early 2008
2017 - ICC Cricketer ofthe year. Virat Captained the Indian U-19 team to
2017 — Appointed as the ODI victory at the 2008 ICC Under 19 Cricket
World Cup in Malaysia.
Captain.
2016 — Rajiv Gandhikhel Ratana
 ROHIT SHARMA

storehouse. His father didn't have

adequate financial means to support
Rohit and hence he was raised by his
grandparents and uncles in Borivali.
Rohit's parents lived in a single-room
house in Dombivli, only during
weekends. Rohit has a younger brother
named Vishal. Rohit got married to
Ritika Sajdeh in 2015. They have a
beautiful daughter, her name is Samaira
Sharma.
Biography -About Rohit Sharma
Rohit is a right-handed opening Records
batsman and bowls rightarm off break
occasionally. Rohit is widely popular for Highest individual score in ODIS -
his aggressive style of batting where he 264.
Only player with three double
likes to take the charge to the bowler. He
centuries in ODIs.
is the only batsman in the world to hit
three double centuries in ODI cricket. He Second Indian with centuries in all
also holds the record for most number of formats of cricket (other than Suresh
runs scored by a batsman in a single Raina).
innings of ODI cricket (264 vs Sri Lanka).
Because of his aggressive batting style,
Rohit has been nicknamed 'Hitman'. Rohit Awards and Accolades
is an active supporter of animal welfare
campaigns. He is the also the Rhinoceros
Ambassador for WWFIndia and one of the
most active members of People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Rohit has personally participated in
PETA's campaign to raise awareness for
homeless cats and dogs in India.

Family
Rohit was born on 30 April 1987 in Rohit Sharma was honoured
Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra, to Purnima with Arjuna Award in 2015. Awarded
Sharma and Gurunath Sharma. Rohit's the Golden Bat award for scoring most
fatherworked as a caretaker of a transport number of runs in ICC Cricket World
cup 2019.
 Domestic Career Lankan cricketer, Kumar Sangakkara, had
secured four hundred in a row in the 2015
In March 2005, rohit made his list a debut edition. Rohit Sharma also became the 2nd
West Zone against Centrl Zone in Deodhar Indian player with a hat-trick of ODI
Trophy. In the same tournament, Sharma centuries after Virat Kohli. Rohit Sharma is
Scored an unbeaten innings of 142 in 123 also the first player to score three ODI
Balls against Nortth Zone at Udaipur. This hundreds in England.
Gave oppurtuniy to represent India at
Abu dhabi against Australia. Sharma was Rohit Sharma has scored three out of five
Also named in the 30 man list for the centuries in the CWC19 that came while
Upcoming ICC Chaampions Trophy chasing. He thus became the first player to
Tournment, but failed to make the squad. score three tons in the history of the World
Cup while chasing. He also became the
first cricketer with four centuries while
chasing in ICC ODI tournaments in CT
and CWC. He became the first cricketer in
World Cup to hit as many as five centuries
in a single edition. He broke the record
which was held by Kumar Sangakkara
with four tons in the 2015 edition The
33year-old cricketer has hit 191 sixes in
international cricket in India.

ACHIEVEMENT
Rohit Shar.ma became the first cricketer to
score two centuries in his maiden Test
as an opening batsman when he opened for
the first time in this format at the time
of the Vizag Test against the South Africa
Team. His 303 runs in that match are the
most that have been scored by any player
in their first Test match as an opening
batsman. Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 215
runs during the 2009 Galle Test match
against New Zealand Team.

The Indian vice-captain, Rohit

Sharma, became only the second
cricketer to hit three consecutive
centuries in the World Cup. Forme Sri-
 MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI

for the Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under-

16 Championship in 1997/98 season
and performed well. In 1998, Dhoni
started to play for the Central Coal
Fields Limited (CCL) team. During
his time at the CCL, Deval Sahay
would gift him fifty rupees for every
6 that he scored in Sheesh Mahal
tournament cricket games. Sahay then
pushed for Dhoni's selection in the
Bihar team.

Domestic Career
MS Dhoni Biography MS Dhoni was selected in the Bihar
team for the Ranji Trophy in the
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, or called 1999—2000 domestic season. The
fondly as Mahi, was born on 7 July 1981 to 18year-old scored a half-century in his
Pan Singh and Devaki Devi in Ranchi, debut match and 68* in the second
Jharkhand. He was the third child after Jayanti innings against Assam. Dhoni ended the
Gupta and a brother Narendra Singh Dhoni. As season with 283 runs in 5 games.
a child, Dhoni was a massive fan of Adam MSD's maiden first-class century came
Gilchrist and idolised Sachin Tendulkar. Dhoni against Bengal in the 2000/01 season.
did his schooling from DAV Jawahar Vidya With his career stalling, Dhoni made a
Mandir and played sports like badminton and desperate move to the Railways Ranji
footballCredits: Pinterest In fact, football was team and worked as a Travelling Ticket
his favourite sport. It was only when his after Examiner (TTE) at Kharagpur railway
his PE coach saw his football goalkeeping station. Dhoni's performance in the
skills and insisted Dhoni to try his luck with 2002—03 season for Bihar included
the cricket gloves. As luck would have it, he three half centuries in the Ranji Trophy
aced in the new sport. Years later, MSD would and two half-centuries in the Deodhar
go on to set a benchmark for wicketkeeping in Trophy. Soon, he was recognised as a
the cricketing world. lowerorder contribution as well as for
his hard-hitting batting style. In the
MS Dhoni Career 2003/04 season, Dhoni managed to
score 128* against Assam in the
In 1995, he joined Commando opening match of the Ranji ODI
cricket club and stood behind the tournament. He went on to represent the
stumps for them for the next three East Zone in the Deodhar Trophy 2003-
years. He was then picked 04 season. Dhoni scored 244 runs in 4
 matches, including a 114 against test runs. Dhoni's century against Pakistan
Central zone. He was crucial as East (148) is the fastest century scored by an
Zone lifted the trophy. In the Duleep Indian wicket-keeper and fourth overall.
Trophy finals, MSD was picked over With 294 dismissals in his career, Dhoni
international cricketer Deep Dasgupta tops the all-time dismissals list by Indian
and scored a half-century in the second wicket keepers. He holds the record for
innings. The BCCI's smalltown talent- most scalps in an innings (10) and in a
spotting initiative Talent Resource match (17) by an Indian wicket keeper.
Development Wing (TRDW) Dhoni is the third captain overall to win
spotted Dhoni Jamshedpur in 100 games.
2003. He sent his report to the National
Cricket Academy following which he
was called up for India A's tour of
Zimbabwe and Kenya. ODI and T20s
World cup MS Dhoni is the fourth Indian to
reach 10,000 ODI runs milestone
MS Dhoni has featured in four and only the second wicketkeeper to
World Cups, 2 as a captain. Under his achieve the feat. The first player to
captaincy, India lifted the World Cup cross 10,000 runs in ODI cricket
in 2011 and reached the semifinals in with a career average of over 50.
2015. Dhoni's 183* against Sri Lanka in
2005 is the highest score by a
wicket-keeper. Most dismissals in
an innings (6) and career (432) by
an Indian wicket-keeper.

MS Dhoni Records Tests Awards & Achievement

MSD led India to number I in test
ranking for the first time ever in 2009 ICC ODI Player ofthe Year 2008,
Dhoni remains the most successful Indian 2009.
Test captain with 27 Test winsHe is the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna — 2007.
first Indian wicketkeeper to score 4,000 Padma Shri — 2009.
 YUVRAJ SINGH

really good at skating which helped

him to win the National U-14 Roller Skating
Championship as a 10-yearold. The active kid
got early popularity not just because of this
but also for acting in 2 Punjabi films named,
Putt Sardara and Mehndi Sajna Di. He hailed
from a school named "DAV Public School" in
Chandigarh which was also the school of
Kapil Dev, the Great Indian Cricket Legend.
He was sent to Mumbai by his father, a
former Indian pacer, to train at the
ElfVengsarkar Cricket Academy. His
Biography strenuous training and hard work paid off
when he was selected in the U-19 Punjab
Yuvraj Singh would definitely be State Team. But this was not enough for the
the first superstar of Indian Cricket in the 19-year-old. He worked day in day out to
21st century. The forgotten legend of make it to the U-19 Indian cricket team. His
Indian Cricket is still counted among the all-round performance at the ICC U-19 World
best left-handed batsmen that the world Cup 2000 eamed him the player of the
of cricket has ever encountered. In his toumament award.
prime, Yuvraj could hit the ball coming at
him as clean and far that anybody could
Yuvraj Singh Family
imagine. He used to do it all with so
much ease and flamboyance that the Yuvraj Singh was born in a Sikh
bowlers always wanted to avoid bowling family to Yograj and Shabnam Singh. Yograj
to 'the six-king' of India. Starting his Singh is a former Indian cricketer and his
career in cricket from a young age, Yuvraj mentor from an early age. On 30 November
has performed at the highest level for the 2016, Yuvraj Singh tied knot with bollywood
better part of his life. He was always the actress and dancer, Hazel Keech.
X-Factor in the Indian Squad, taking
crucial wickets and scoring match-
winning innings whenever needed the Yuvraj Singh Notable Achievements
most. Known for his dedication, the man
has even fought cancer and came back Hit consecutive six 6s /in an over in the T20
like a champion to serve the national format.
cricket team. Born in a Punjab Jat family, Man of the series in both ICC T20 and ODI
Yuvraj Singh started his career of sports World cups.
with Roller Skating and Tennis. He was Picked up 5 wickets and hit a half-century in
a single world cup match.
 Also awarded Padma Shreein the year
Yuvraj is the second Indian cricketer 2014
signed by English county Yorkshire after
Sachin Tendulkar. T-20 Debut
Y Yuvaraj Singh became the second Indian after
First all-rounder to score 300 plus runs Sachin Tendulkar to represent Yorkshire
and to take 15 wickets in a single World County team. He then played his first ever t-
Cup. 20 game from the side scoring 71 off 37 balls
against Leicestershire. He along with
First Indian player to cross 100 sixes in Mohammad Kaif and Virender Sehwag
Twenty20 Cricket. became the first Indians to play t-20 cricket
that season.
Yuvraj Singh was conferred with the
Arjuna Award, India's second highest
Only player to win MOS in both U19 and
award. 50 Over wc.

Most expensive player ever sold in the IPL

auction.
Records
Only bowle to take 3 hat- hatrics in the
Fastest T20 Fifty. single IPL.
First player with 300+ runs and 15
wickets in a single WC
Only player to win MOS in both U19
and 50 – Over WC.

Awards
Padma Sri -2014

CNN-IBN Indian of The Year Special

Achievement 2011.

Arjun Awards For Cricket 2012.

 HARMANPREET KAUR

promised to not pressurize Harmanpreet

Kaur into marriage.

Early Life
Harmanpreet is a Volleyball and
Basketball player and Satwinder Kaur.Her
parents are baptised Sikhs. Her younger
sister Hemjeet, is post-graduate in English
Harmanpreet Kaur is the and works as an assistant professor at
Indian Cricketer and the T20 Guru Nanak College in Moga. She took to
captain of Indian Women's team. cricket after joining the Gian Jyoti School
The most prominent highlight of Academy, 30 kilometres (19 mi) away
India's allrounding superstar from her residence in Moga, where she
Harmanpreet Kaur has to be those trained under Kamaldeesh Singh Sodhi.
171 runs that she hit against Harman used to play with men in the
Australia in the Women's World formative days of her career.She moved to
Cup semi-finals, which helped Mumbai in 2014 where she began working
India proceed into the finals. Many for the Indian Railways. Harmanpreet was
compared her heroics to that of inspired by Virender Sehwag He was the
Kapil Dev's 175* against first coach of Harman when she had begun
Zimbabwe. Both the star playing the sport.
performances were from all-
rounders who had 170+ scores in a Prime Years
world cup semi-finals in England. On her ODI debut at age of 20, she
However, unlike Dev's legendary bowled 4 overs and conceded 10 runs. The
team, the women's team couldn't cherry on the cake was the catch of
win in the finals against the hosts Armaan Khan off Amita Shanna. Then in
England. June 2009, she made her T20 International
debut at the ICC Women's World
Twenty20 against England women's at
Harmanpreet Kaur Family County Ground. Later her ability to hit the
Harmanpreet Kaur was born ball a long way was again the talk of the
to a lower-middle-class family on town after she played quick-fire innings of
8th March 1989 in Moga. Her 33 against England women's in a T201
father, Harmandar Singh Bhullar game played in Mumbai in 2010. Steadily
was a clerk at a judicial court she became an important part of the Indian
whereas her mother, Satwinder team. Her aggressive batting is reminiscent
Kaur is a housewife She also has a of former Indian opener and Kaur's role
sister named Hemjeet Kaur and two model, Virendra Sehwag. Kaur was named
brothers. Harmanpreet is as Indian women's captain for the 2012
unmarried. Her parents have Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup final after
captain Mithali Raj and vice-captain with 188 runs. Harmanpreet also has the
Jhulan Goswami were ruled out due to record for the highest individual score for
injuries. She made her debut as the India in Women's cricket World Cup history to
captain against Pakistan women's as her name. The 171* knock was also the
India defended 81 runs and thus highest ever individual score in a knockout
winning Asia Cup. Harmanpreet stage of a Women's World Cup match, easily
continued her incredible ascend when surpassing the previous record of 107* held
in March 2013, she was named India by Karen Rolton. In May last year, the BCCI
women's ODI captain. In the series recommended Harmanpreet name for the
against Bangladesh, Kaur scored her Arjuna Award in addition to that of
second ODI century in 2nd One Day Cheteshwar Pujara's. In July 2017, Harman
International. At the end of the series, became second India batswomen to feature in
Kaur had scored 195 runs at an average of the Top Ten of ICC Women's ODI Player
97.50 that included a century and a fifty
Rankings after former captain Mithali Raj. In
along with 2 wickets. In January 2016, she
helped India to win the series in Australia December 2017, she was mentioned in the
by scoring a 31-ball 46 runs in India's ICC Women's T20 Team of the Year. This
highest ever chase in Twentys20 year, she and ODI captain Mithali Raj staged a
Internationals She continued her form in revolt against the She will now captain Indian
the 2016 ICC Women's World T20, where women's team to another glory at the 2018
she scored 89 runs and took seven wickets Women's World T20 next month. women's
in four matches. In June 2016, Kaur coach Tushar Arothe and also demanded his
became the first Indian cricketer to sign resignation.
for an overseas Twenty20 franchise, as the
Women's Big Bash League champions, Harmanpreet Kaur
Sydney Thunder signed her for the 2016— Achievements
17 season.
Runner-up 2017 Women's
Cricket World cup
ICC Women's T201 Team of the
Year.

2017 Women's Cricket World Cup

India's Harmanpreet Kaur on the
way to the landmark 171 * against
Australia. On 20 July 2017, Harmanpreet
scored a blitzkrieg 171 *(115) against
Australia in the 2017 Women's Cricket
World Cup semi-final in Derby to help her
team advance into the finals of the event. Awards
Kaur's 171* is currently the second Arjuna Awards.
highest score by an Indian batswoman in
BCCI's Best Women Cricketer
an ODI. Deepti Sharma leads the roost
of the Year 2017.