Sports

Research suggests that sports have the capacity to connect youth to positive adult role models and provide positive development opportunities.as well as promotes the learning and application of life skills.

Top10 popular sports in the world:

1. Soccer/football
2. Badminton
3. Hockey
4. Volleyball
5. Basketball
6. Tennis
7. Cricket
8. Table Tennis
9. Baseball
10. Golf

I want to discuss on the topic named cricket:

The majority of participants of this sport come from Australia,India, pakistan,SouthAfrica and the Uk,but cricket is also on the rise in other countries all over the world .The international cricket council(ICC) identified that an impressive 125 countries around the world play the sport.

The india men's national cricket team,also known as Team India and men in blue,is governed by BCCI.Virat Kohli is the captain of the Team India.Ravi shastri is the coach of the blue jersey.

 Members of blue jersey are:

1. Virat Kohli
2. Rohit Sharma
3. K.L.Rahul
4. Hardik Pandya
5. Ravindra Jadeja
6. Rishabh pant
7. Yuzvendra chahal
8. Jasprit Bumrah
9. Mohammed Shami
10. Dinesh Karthik
11. Bhubaneswar kumar
12. Mayank Agarwal
13. Kuldeep Yadav
14. Kadar Jadhav

Actually,I have crush on virat kohli who is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the india national team.A right-handed top-order batsmen, Kohli is one of the best batsmen in the world.He plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian premier League,and has been the team's captain since 2013.since October 2017,he has been the top-ranked ODI batsmen in the world and is currently 2nd in test rankings with 886 points.Kohli captained India Under -19s to victory. At the 2008 under -19 World Cup in Malaysia.After few months later,he made his ODIdebut for india against srilanka at the age of 19.He soon established himself as a regular in the ODI middle-order and was part of the squad that won the 2011 world cup.He made his Test debut in 2011and shrugged off the tag of"ODI specialist" by 2013 with test hundreds in Australia and South Africa.Having reached the number one spot in ICC Rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 2013.Kohli also found success by winning the Man of the Tournament twice at the ICC world Twenty20.

  Kohli was appointed as vice-captain of the ODI team in 2012 and handed over the Test captaincy following Mahendra Singh Dhoni's test retirement in 2014.In early,2017 he became the limited-overs captain as well after Dhoni stepped down from the position.kohli has been the recipient of many awards such as the sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in 2017 and 2018.ICC player of the year 2018.

ICCODI player of the year in 2012,2017 and 2018 and Wisden leading Cricketer in the worldin 2016,2017 and 2018.He was given the Arjuna award in 2013, Padmashree under the sports category in 2017, and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna,the highest sporting honour in India,in 2018.In 2020,Kohli ranked as 66 th in Forbes list of the top 100 highest paid athletes in the world for the year 2020with estimated earnings of dollars26 million.virat Kohli is the only cricketer to feature in Forbes.