I was shivering: Virat Kohli reveals his ‘nervous’ first meeting with Anushka Sharma

Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma are considered one of the most adorable couples in the world, with fans lovingly referring to them as ‘Virushka’. Time and again, the pair’s adoration for each other has made the news, with both Kohli and Anushka speaking in high regard about how the other has made a huge impact in their lives. 

While the pair’s chemistry is well documented, Kohli, while making a guest appearance on AB de Villiers’ YouTube show, spoke about how the couple’s story together started off. 

The former RCB captain shared the storyline of how the two of them initially spoke about a lot of topics, and the friendship eventually blossomed into a beautiful relationship. 

Kohli said, “My manager called me one day on the tour of [Zimbabwe] and he’s like, this commercial opportunity has come up and you are going to do this ad. I was like, cool. He’s like, we are gonna shoot it with Anushka Sharma. She was one of the well-established and one of the top actors already in India. As soon as I heard that, I started shivering, how the hell am I gonna do this ad with her? She was a proper actor. I was so nervous.”

He further added, “The tour went on and I went to Mumbai and came to shoot and I remember, I was so tense. I was like, how am I gonna say 'Hi' to her? What am I gonna say? I was completely out of it. Out of my nervousness, I didn’t realize how tall she was. She was wearing a five-inch-tall sandal.”

Virat concluded by saying, “So, the first thing that I told her was that you didn’t get anything higher to wear and she’s like, excuse me. I was, Oh my god! So bad, but then the shoot went on and I kind of figured it out along that whole that she’s actually a very normal person and then we got talking, and our backgrounds were very similar. The same things that a usual middle-class household would experience. We connected on all those experiences. From there on we became friends. Gradually, we started dating.”

The couple, who were dating for a long period of time tied the knot on 11th December 2017 and were blessed with a baby girl on 11th January 2021, who they named Vamika.