Virat Kohli became only the 12th Indian cricketer to play 100 Test matches for the country when he took the field in Mohali in the first Test of the two-match series against Sri Lanka last week. 

The former India captain is known to take the field with a win at all cost attitude and often his approach towards the game is mistaken for arrogance. 

While he wears his heart on his sleeve on the field, off the field Kohli has shown time and again how much he cares about his fans and similar scenes were on display at the IS Bindra stadium after India's emphatic win over Sri Lanka. 

Caption This #YehHaiNayiDilli #INDvSL @RishabhPant17 @imVkohli @ImRo45 pic.twitter.com/xUoCFhIBmX

— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) March 7, 2022

India defeated Sri Lanka by an innings and 222 runs to go 1-0 up in the two-match series. While Kohli failed to make his landmark Test memorable by scoring a century, he did cross the 8,000-run mark in the longest format of the game after scoring 45 runs in the first innings. 

Once the game was done, Indian players were boarding the bus back to their hotel and that is when a disabled fan, who calls himself the unofficial 12th man of the Indian team, received a special gift from Kohli. 

Wow it's great day my life @imVkohli he's 100th test match he's gifts me t shirts wow #viratkholi #ViratKohli100thTest #KingKohli pic.twitter.com/mxALApy89H

— dharamofficialcricket (@dharmveerpal) March 6, 2022

The former India captain walked up to the fan and gave him a T-shirt along with a pat on his back. 

The fan took to Twitter to share a video of the same and wrote "Wow it's great day my life @imVkohli  he's 100th test match he's gifts me t shirts wow  #viratkholi #ViratKohli100thTest #KingKohli." 

Fans were in awe of Kohli seeing the heartwarming gesture by the 33-year-old batter and flooded Twitter by lavishing praise on him. 

Great Guy with a Great heart https://t.co/Dc52onR99Q

— Akshans¹⁷𓃵 ࿗ (@Rp17_Akshans) March 7, 2022

Best human I saw in cricket after Sanga & AB https://t.co/BJDdkWQbjf

— ᴮᵉᵃˢᵗ مسخJDJoseph Vijay Fan (@JD_Jaffna) March 7, 2022

Man with golden heart https://t.co/s9xKuxiNIY

— Virushka_18 (@Virushka_1812) March 7, 2022

He's synonym of kindness and empathy...that's y people hail him as a king kohli https://t.co/mpX43tSigI

— Bhanu (@saibhanu_444) March 7, 2022

Ek hi dil hai aur kitni baar jeetoge Virat bhai https://t.co/A8hqWLOCcQ

— Prasanjit (@Prasanj19782888) March 7, 2022 

Kohli will travel to Bengaluru along with the rest of the squad for the second and final Test before players shift their focus from international cricket to franchise cricket, with the Indian Premier League (IPL) scheduled to begin on March 26. 

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Kohli has been scoring runs consistently of late, getting half-centuries but he has failed to cross the elusive three-figure mark in 71 attempts across formats. 

He would be looking to end this century drought in front of his home IPL crowd at the M Chinnaswamy stadium.

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