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50 free Virat Kohli trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Virat Kohli is the rare cricketer whose numbers and whose temperament are both worth arguing about. He captained India to an age-group world title as a teenager, rebuilt the red-ball side into the world's best, chased down totals that looked out of reach, and walked away from the longest format in 2025 with more than 9,000 runs. This quiz covers the whole arc: the Delhi boy who batted on the morning after his father's death, the centuries and chases that rewrote the ODI record books, the captaincy years, the IPL seasons with a single franchise, the awards, the nicknames, and the businesses, brands and family life away from the field. Every question carries a clue for players who do not know the answer outright, and every answer comes with the one fact that makes it worth remembering. It works as a pub-quiz round, a fan-group challenge or a warm-up before the next big match. The opening ten are the broadest; the deep cuts come later.
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Q 01Which Bollywood actress did Kohli marry in December 2017 in a private ceremony near Florence, Italy?
Anushka Sharma
Anushka Sharma and Kohli first met on a shampoo commercial shoot, and the Indian press fused their names into the couple's nickname, "Virushka".
Q 02Kohli's 76 in the 2024 T20 World Cup final, his last T20 international, came against which team?
South Africa
South Africa lost by seven runs in Bridgetown, and Kohli was named player of the match before announcing his T20I retirement that same night.
Q 03Whose record of 49 ODI centuries did Kohli overtake at the 2023 World Cup, with his 50th hundred?
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar's mark of 49 fell in the semi-final at the Wankhede Stadium, where Kohli made 117 on his way to being named player of the tournament.
Q 04Whose mid-series retirement in Australia in December 2014 made Kohli India's permanent Test captain?
MS Dhoni
MS Dhoni quit Tests after the Melbourne match, and Kohli went on to become the first player to score centuries in his first three innings as captain.
Q 05Which shirt number does Kohli wear for India, echoed in the name of his Puma-backed lifestyle brand?
18
The brand is One8, launched with Puma in 2017, and 18 has been Kohli's number on the back of every India shirt he has worn.
Q 06Which team did Kohli's RCB beat by six runs in the 2025 IPL final, ending an 18-year title wait?
Punjab Kings
Punjab Kings fell short chasing 191 in Ahmedabad, and Kohli's 43 off 35 was the top score for a side that had lost finals in 2009, 2011 and 2016.
Q 07What nickname, made famous by a wicketkeeper's chatter on the stump mic, do teammates use for Kohli?
Cheeku
Cheeku came from a Delhi coach who thought a cropped haircut made young Kohli's cheeks and ears stand out, like the rabbit in the Champak comics.
Q 08Which stroke does Kohli consider his signature, despite a known weakness to balls wide of off stump?
Cover drive
The cover drive is Kohli's favourite shot, yet bowlers keep targeting that same off-stump channel because he is vulnerable to deliveries wide outside off.
Q 09Kohli is the most-followed Asian on which social media platform, with over 250 million followers?
Instagram pays handsomely: Kohli is reported to command around ₹8.9 crore for a single sponsored post on the platform.
Q 10Which magazine placed Kohli on its 2018 list of the world's 100 most influential people?
Time
Time put Kohli among its 100 most influential people in 2018, the year he also became the first player to win the ICC's Cricketer, Test and ODI Player of the Year awards together.
Q 11Kohli received India's highest sporting honour in 2018; what is the award called?
Khel Ratna
The Khel Ratna came five years after Kohli's Arjuna Award, and in between he collected the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in 2017.
Q 12At which position in the batting order does Kohli customarily walk in for India in ODIs?
Number three
Number three is where Kohli has scored more ODI runs than anyone in history, and his average climbs to 65.5 when India are batting second.
Q 13Which dietary change did Kohli make in 2018 to ease a cervical spine problem caused by uric acid?
Went vegetarian
Q 21Kohli's century on World Cup debut came in the 2011 tournament's opening match against which team?
Bangladesh
Bangladesh's Mirpur ground hosted the opener, where Virender Sehwag's 175 and Kohli's unbeaten 100 powered India to 370 for 4.
Q 22Kohli made his Test debut in June 2011 against which team, only to be dropped after a poor start?
West Indies
West Indies provided the opposition for Kohli's first Test, and his maiden Test hundred did not arrive until January 2012 in Australia.
Q 23Against which side was Kohli batting for Delhi when his father died overnight, before he made 90?
Karnataka
Karnataka were the opponents in a December 2006 Ranji Trophy match; Kohli, unbeaten on 40 overnight, batted on to 90 and only then left for his father's funeral.
Kohli went vegetarian but not vegan, and he still eats dairy; the spine condition had been affecting his finger movement and therefore his batting.
Q 14Which IPL award for the season's leading run-scorer did Kohli win in both 2016 and 2024?
Orange Cap
The Orange Cap in 2016 came alongside the Most Valuable Player award, and the 2024 one arrived when Kohli was 35 and had given up the captaincy three years earlier.
Q 15From which format did Kohli retire in May 2025, after 123 matches and 30 centuries?
Test cricket
Test cricket lost Kohli at 36, after a poor series in Australia, with 9,230 runs at an average of 46.85 and a highest score of 254 not out.
Q 16Which tyre company's logo is on Kohli's bat, in one of the most lucrative bat deals in cricket?
MRF
MRF's logo has travelled on Kohli's bat for years, and by 2023 his overall brand value was reported to have reached ₹1,000 crore.
Q 17What was the profession of Kohli's father, Prem Nath, who died suddenly in December 2006?
Criminal lawyer
A criminal lawyer by trade, Prem Nath Kohli had turned down offers to move his son to influential clubs that would have guaranteed his selection.
Q 18What colour of shoes does the superstitious Kohli insist on wearing whenever he takes the field?
White
White shoes are one of several rituals, alongside a black wristband, a single pair of gloves and a kara bangle worn on his right arm since 2012.
Q 19Which India captain retired from T20 internationals the same night as Kohli, after the 2024 final?
Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma lifted the trophy and quit the format alongside Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja, three retirements announced within hours of the win.
Q 20Which country hosted the 2008 Under-19 World Cup that Kohli captained India to win?
Malaysia
Malaysia's Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur staged the rain-hit final, and Kohli's 100 off 74 balls in the group stage was hailed by ESPNcricinfo as the innings of the tournament.
Q 24Which coach took on Kohli at the newly founded West Delhi Cricket Academy in 1998, when he was nine?
Rajkumar Sharma
Rajkumar Sharma was introduced to the Kohli family after neighbours insisted the boy's talent deserved more than gully cricket.
Q 25At which ground did Kohli make 115 and 141 in December 2014, his first Test as stand-in captain?
Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval's Test ended in defeat for Kohli's side, but his twin hundreds began a record-breaking series for an Indian batter in Australia.
Q 26Which prize did Kohli lift in 2019 as the first Asian captain to win a Test series in Australia?
Border-Gavaskar Trophy
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy was retained 2-1, and India then won the ODI series too, their first bilateral one-day series victory in Australia.
Q 27What is Kohli's highest ODI score, made against Pakistan in a 2012 Asia Cup chase of 330?
183
183 in Dhaka won Kohli the man-of-the-match award, and in more than forty ODI hundreds since he has never bettered it.
Q 28What was Kohli's highest Test score, an unbeaten innings as captain at Pune in October 2019?
254
254 not out beat his own 243 made at Delhi two years earlier, and it was one of seven Test double hundreds, every one of them scored as captain.
Q 29How many balls did Kohli need for the fastest ODI century by an Indian man, chasing 360 at Jaipur?
52
52 balls took Kohli to three figures against Australia, and India won by nine wickets with 39 balls to spare.
Q 30How many runs did Kohli pile up in the 2016 IPL, still the most by anyone in a single season?
973
973 runs at an average of 81.08 included four centuries, the first of them his maiden T20 hundred against Gujarat, and earned him the Most Valuable Player award.