Virat Kohli birthday: 5 life lessons we can learn from the Indian skipper

#4 Develop relentless, sickening work-ethic

Virat Kohli: Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

One of the biggest takeaways from Kohli's cricketing persona would be the number of hours that he gave to succeeding at the international level.

There were times in his career when he tasted failure as a cricketer and was expelled from the eternal purple patch he enjoys as a batsman. However, he made sure to rise stronger, better and harder every time he was thrown into the mud.

When he struggled to judge the movement of the ball outside the off-stump in England back in 2014, he went back to the drawing board, persevered on removing the glitch out of his technique and returned to the Test arena to score 11 centuries in the next 31 games that he played. His batting average after he sustained the England nightmare has been 59.30 and of those eleven Test hundreds, seven were scored away from home.

He is struggling to hold on to catches in the slip quadrant at the moment. So, what is the Indian skipper doing to eradicate that from his otherwise stellar resume as a fielder? Here's what: he is putting himself through intense catch practice sessions anywhere and everywhere he can find the place to jump and dive. He is trying everything to step up as a skipper whenever he stands in those slips.

This is his the level of dedication he has. This is what it takes to be Virat Kohli.

Ridiculous work ethic coupled with an almost abnormal level of self-discipline have propelled Kohli to the highest level of performance in the sport. However, he would've been just as successful in any other domain that he might've picked ahead of cricket, and that is because of the enviable and extraordinary work ethic of 29-year-old.