Many cricketers both national and international have some superstitious beliefs or some sort of eccentricity. Having a certain pre-match routine to lucky shoes and even jerseys with specific numbers, many cricketers have their own belief systems.
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Often these eccentricities are borne out of an emotional connect as is in the case of Virat Kohli who always has the number 18 on his back. For people curious about Kohli’s reasons for number 18, it holds a special place in his heart. As it so happens the young cricketer’s father had died on December 18 when Kohli himself was just 18 years old. As his father was the one who encouraged him to play cricket and even admitted him to a cricket academy in Delhi, Kohli wears this number as a tribute to his loving father.
Kohli started wearing jerseys with this number first when he started U-19 cricket and then continued to do the same in the Indian team and even the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.
