Finding Virat

Virat Kohli's coach Rajkumar Sharma remembers his young pupil as a "chubby, naughty kid", when he came to his academy. Aanchal Bansal of Open Magazine goes to Kohli's neigbourhood of Paschim Vihar in West Delhi and speaks to the people who have shaped him and get a glimpse of his cocky personality.

Virat is a man of contradictions. One moment he’s a metrosexual with a grooming kit loaded with creams and lotions, the other he’s a Delhi alpha male refusing to blink in the toughest of cricketing battlefields. One moment he’s flipping the bird to crowds in Australia, the other he cremates his father and a few hours later leads his team to victory over Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy.