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April 19, 2021 India

Did you see… Virat Kohli’s vertical clapping?

2 minute readIf Virat Kohli has a defining quality, it is faintly-unnerving intensity. Remember that time he was basically livid about beating Australia? Or all of those very many times when he celebrated a hundred with incandescent rage? We’re if not quite numb to these displays by now, then at least acclimatised

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February 13, 2021 England / India

Did you see… Virat Kohli after Moeen Ali clean bowled him for a duck?

3 minute readVirat Kohli is a man who struggles to come to terms with being bowled. We assumed we’d already seen Kohli’s finest “I’ve just been bowled” face. And maybe, for a pure, single facial expression conveying sheer bafflement that such a thing could possibly have happened, the face he produced after

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July 4, 2020 India

It’s time to marvel at the vocal stylings of Virat Kohli (and also Rishabh Pant) in this amazing/awful pimple cream ad

2 minute readIt’s hard not to feel that the role of ‘ambassador’ has been somewhat devalued in recent years by the marketing industry. It used to be a high-ranking diplomat. But now… “I am very excited to be a part of Team Himalaya and be the ambassador for their Men’s Face Wash

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April 5, 2019 India

How has Virat Kohli been dealing with his recent inability to lay bat on ball?

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November 23, 2018 England / India

Who celebrates hundreds more angrily – Jonny Bairstow or Virat Kohli?

4 minute readWhen Jonny Bairstow made his first test ton, he celebrated in such a way that no-one was left in any doubt that this was the Test hundred that his late father, David, never made. If you know the story of Jonny and David Bairstow – and an article like this

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August 21, 2018 England / India

When Virat Kohli edged to Keaton Jennings – a breakdown of the finest missed catch you’ll ever see

4 minute readThere’s basically nothing left as an England fan other than to become a connoisseur of missed catches. Keaton Jennings failing to make meaningful use of his own hands when Virat Kohli edged the ball to him on 93 was one of the greatest misses we’ve ever seen. There are three

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August 2, 2018 England / India

Virat Kohli’s elite levels of obliviousness and delusion

3 minute readThere were three phases to Virat Kohli’s hundred. There was the bit where he kept being beaten by the bowlers; there was the bit where the ball wasn’t doing quite so much but he was still shaken up; and there was the bit where everything went back to normal and

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August 2, 2018 England / India

Virat Kohli ran out Joe Root and then he did a good thing and then he did a bad thing

2 minute readWe don’t know if the following is fair or not. You could probably prove it one way or the other using ‘statistics’ or ‘facts’. It certainly feels true though and if modern politics tells us anything, it’s that what feels true is of far greater significance that what actually is

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July 18, 2018 England / India

Virat Kohli’s ‘I’ve just been bowled by Adil Rashid’ face

< 1 minute readWhen we wrote about what it’s like to be Virat Kohli, we didn’t for one minute think that there would be any overlap with what it’s like to be Mike Gatting. Turns out there is. Virat Kohli and Mike Gatting both do a thing where they make an astonished face

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June 26, 2018 Features / India

What is it like to be Virat Kohli?

8 minute readCaptain of his country, the best batsman in the world, tens of millions of social media followers and filthy rich – what is it like to be Virat Kohli? Well barring some sort of Freaky Friday body swap development, we’re just going to have to try and imagine. But we

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