5. Prem and Saroj – his parents’ names

Virat’s love and faith in his parents know no bounds. On multiple occasions, he has attributed all his success to his father as well as his mother. In fact, it was his father Prem Kohli who introduced him to cricket when he was three years old. He supported him through the thick and thin in laying the foundation in the little child’s brain.

Mr. Prem then got his son into a professional cricket coaching academy when he was just 9 years old. Virat said that he wanted to keep his parents with him till he is alive and thus got their names tattooed on his arm.

Explaining the reason behind inked the named of his father mother on NatGeo’s series Mega Icons, Kohli said, “Purely because the connection that I have felt with them is something that is unexplained. It is a feeling, it’s not even something that can be put into words. Hence I wanted to make it a part of me until I’m alive.”