Virat Kohli Trivia
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49 free Virat Kohli trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 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 at a private ceremony in Tuscany, 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, where Kohli, without a fifty all tournament, made his 76 when it mattered most and was named player of the match.
Q 03Whose record of 49 ODI centuries did Kohli overtake at the 2023 World Cup, with his 50th hundred?
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar was watching from the stands in Mumbai when the 50th hundred came in the semi-final, and Kohli turned and bowed to him from the middle.
Q 04Whose mid-series retirement in Australia in December 2014 made Kohli India's permanent Test captain?
MS Dhoni
MS Dhoni cited the strain of playing all formats, and the board announced his exit in a statement straight after the drawn Melbourne Test, with one match of the series left.
Q 05Which shirt number does Kohli wear for India, echoed in the name of his own lifestyle brand?
18
18 was just the number Kohli was handed with India's Under-19s, but he came to call it fated: his India debut fell on 18 August 2008 and his father died on 18 December 2006.
Q 06Which team did Kohli's RCB beat by six runs in the 2025 IPL final to win their first title?
Punjab Kings
Punjab Kings fell short chasing 191 in Ahmedabad, and Kohli, top scorer with 43 for a side beaten in three earlier finals, was in tears before the last ball was bowled.
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 tempts Kohli into reaching for wide balls, and in the 2024-25 Tests in Australia he was out again and again edging outside off stump to the slips.
Q 09As of 2026, Kohli is the most-followed Asian on which social media platform, with over 250 million followers?
Instagram is where a 2023 report claimed Kohli earned over 11 crore rupees for every sponsored post, a figure he publicly dismissed as untrue.
Q 10Which magazine placed Kohli on its 2018 list of the world's 100 most influential people?
Time
Time ran a tribute praising how Kohli answered criticism after a poor series by going home to rebuild both his technique and his fitness.
Q 11Which national award did Kohli share with weightlifter Mirabai Chanu in 2018?
Khel Ratna
The Khel Ratna is India's highest sporting honour; it still carried Rajiv Gandhi's name when Kohli received it, three years before it was renamed for hockey great Dhyan Chand.
Q 12At which position in the batting order does Kohli customarily walk in for India in ODIs?
Number three
Number three became Kohli's home only after an ODI debut as an opener in 2008, and in January 2026 he passed Ricky Ponting for the most ODI runs ever made from that spot.
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 had helped knock India out of the 2007 World Cup, and four years on India made it a revenge game: 370 for 4 in Mirpur, with Kohli unbeaten on 100.
Q 22Kohli made his Test debut in June 2011, with several senior batters missing, against which team?
West Indies
West Indies kept Kohli to 76 runs in five innings in his first series, yet seven months later he made India's only century of a 4-0 defeat 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 after a trapped nerve left his little finger tingling and made it hard to bat; he said high uric acid was drawing calcium from his bones.
Q 14Which IPL award did Kohli win in both 2016 and 2024?
Orange Cap
The Orange Cap goes to the season's leading run-scorer; Kohli's second came in a year when RCB lost seven of their first eight games, then won six in a row to reach the play-offs.
Q 15From which format did Kohli retire in May 2025, after 123 matches and 30 centuries?
Test cricket
Test cricket lost Kohli at 36, and he ended his farewell post with the words '#269, signing off', the number on his India Test cap.
Q 16Which tyre company's logo is on Kohli's bat, in one of the most lucrative bat deals in cricket?
MRF
MRF renewed Kohli's bat deal in 2017 for a reported 100 crore rupees over eight years, a huge jump from the 8 crore it had paid for the previous three.
Q 17What was the profession of Kohli's father, Prem Nath, who died suddenly in December 2006?
Criminal lawyer
A criminal lawyer, Prem Kohli once refused an official's hint for 'a little extra' to get his son picked for a Delhi junior side, saying Virat would be chosen on merit or not at all.
Q 18Kohli has said that batting in shoes of which colour is a superstition of his?
White
White shoes are a habit Kohli owned up to in a 2020 live video chat with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola: 'It's more of a superstition for me.'
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 the same night as Kohli, and Ravindra Jadeja followed a day later, three retirements from one winning eleven.
Q 20Which country hosted the 2008 Under-19 World Cup that Kohli captained India to win?
Malaysia
Malaysia staged the rain-hit final in Kuala Lumpur, and the title earned Kohli his first IPL contract, signed with RCB.
Q 24Which coach took on Kohli at the newly founded West Delhi Cricket Academy in 1998, when he was nine?
Rajkumar Sharma
Rajkumar Sharma met the Kohlis on the day the academy opened, when Virat's father brought both his sons along; the elder, Vikas, soon fell away while Virat surged ahead.
Q 25At which ground did Kohli make 115 and 141 in December 2014, his first Test as stand-in captain?
Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval saw Kohli refuse to settle for a draw: set 364 on the final day, India went for the win and fell 48 runs short, his 141 leading the chase.
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 came with a 2-1 win, 71 years after India's first tour; they even made Australia follow on in the last Test before rain washed out the final day.
Q 27Kohli's highest ODI score, 183, came in a 2012 Asia Cup chase of 330 against which team?
Pakistan
Pakistan had made 329 in Dhaka, yet Kohli's 183 off 148 balls won it with 13 balls to spare, though India still failed to reach the final.
Q 28Kohli's 254 not out in 2019 took him past which legend's Test tally of 6,996 runs?
Don Bradman
Don Bradman needed only 52 Tests for his 6,996 runs, whereas Kohli went past him in his 81st, on the way to the seventh double hundred of his career.
Q 29Whose record for India's fastest ODI century did Kohli break with a 52-ball hundred against Australia in 2013?
Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag's 60-ball record fell as India made light of a target of 360: all of Australia's top five had passed fifty, and India still won with 39 balls to spare.
Q 30In Kohli's record 973-run IPL season of 2016, which teammate shared a 229-run stand with him against Gujarat Lions?
AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers hit 129 not out as the pair, both centurions, put on their 229 in just 96 balls; Kohli's 973 runs are still the season record, yet RCB lost the final.