The Drive of 18

Chapter 3

It was a time for indian cricket which later changed the whole face of world cricket.It was the starting of Indian premier league (IPL) and luckily Virat was also the part of that. A young virat kohli was picked up by Royal challengers Bangalore (RCB) ,and he is today the most loyal person of cricket history.He supported RCB till his worst and best phase and RCB did.The first year of IPL was not a good year for Virat Kohli.He just scored 165 runs in his 12 innings,like he forgot how to play and score runs.But than his coach Mr.Rajkumar sharma arrived and told him not to get diverted from his goal.After this he played a match where  the chief selector of cricket team came and virat played a amazing inning and this opened the doors for international cricket team.He got selected for srilanka tour match in 2008 but it was hard to make his fixed place in the cricket team with these great names like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Mahendra Singh Dhoni etc.It was hard for virat kohli to get selected in ICT .He played some innings with average score but he also played some amazing innings like in 2009 he played against West Indies and scored 79 not out runs and got his first man of the match and also in the same year he scored a century against Sri Lanka in Eden gardens (Kolkata)while chasing .In this match india have to make 316 runs and at 23 they were 2 down ( Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag)and then Kohli came with Gautam Gambhir and played a brilliant inning.In the year 2010 he played 25 matches and scored 995 runs and with 3 centuries too.At the same time in 2011 world cup had also begun . And fortunately Virat Kohli was also in the team because he was the best perfomer in 2010.He played the every match of the world cup and even scored a century in his first match but the most important match is always final and in finals while chasing 275 India got 2 down on 31 Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.In this tough situation Kohli came with Gautam Gambhir and did a partnership of 83 runs and finally india won the match.This was the moment of Sachin Tendulkar when he won his first world cup for india.All the players lift's him up on their shoulders and
Virat Kohli said...
Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years.It's the time to carry him on our shoulders .