8 things you didn't know about Virat Kohli

#5 He didn't name Sachin Tendulkar as his favourite player in his U-19 days

Time and again, parallels between batting legend, Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli have been drawn. Can he break Sachin's record of a hundred centuries? Can he score a century at Lord's, something that Tendulkar wasn't able to? The list of questions goes on and on. While Kohli has always acknowledged the cricketing maestro to be the ultimate source of inspiration and the reason why he took up the sport in the first place, there was a time when he named someone else as his favorite player ahead of Sachin Tendulkar!

Kohli, like all the other players, had shot an introduction video during the 2008 U-19 Cricket World Cup which was played every time he went out to bat. Surprisingly, in this video where Kohli introduced himself by saying his name and his batting specifics, he concluded by naming South African batsman, Herschelle Gibbs as his favourite cricketer. Odd, isn't it?