As majestic as King Kohli: 10 similes that Virat personifies

As fast as lightning

Kohli and Dhoni are the quickest

pair

running between the wickets

One of the quickest between the wickets, Kohli makes sure that while he at the crease, everyone else on the park, including his own batting partner at the non striker's end, are at their toes.

An excellent judge of the field and fielders, he leaves no opportunity of sneaking in a single from nowhere or converting the one's into two's and in turn into three's. He makes his partners run hard, often leaving them gasping for breath, unless of course it is MS Dhoni.

One needs to see to believe his agility in the field. Often patrolling the straight boundaries, he seldom gives opposition batsmen a chance to run an extra run when the ball is played towards him. Covering ground with pace, he puts his strong arm to good use to dart the ball back to the keeper or the bowler.

One particular example of this swiftness and presence of mind was at display at the Edgbaston Test of the ongoing India v England series when he quickly collected the ball and got rid of it even quicker, directly hitting the stumps at the non striker's end and finding his English counterpart Joe Root well short of his ground.