Virat Kohli, who has been stepped down as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain at the conclusion of the IPL 2021 edition, stated he made the decision to allow himself some space & balance his workloads. Virat Kohli confirmed his intention to step down as IPL captain after claiming that the 2021 T20 World Cup will be his final event as India’s captain in the shortest format of the game. Virat Kohli On Stepping Down As RCB Captain.
Later, he was sacked as ODI captain: “I’m not someone who holds onto things more than I should. Even if I know I can do a lot more, if I’m not going to enjoy the process, I’m not going to do it,” said Kohli.
It’s very difficult for people to understand your decisions: Virat Kohli On Stepping Down As RCB Captain
According to the former RCB and India captain, find it tough to grasp what a cricketer considers upon making such choices. “Because it’s very difficult for people to understand your decisions unless they are in your situation. From the outside, people have their own expectations ‘Oh! How did that happen? We are so shocked’,” added Kohli.
“There’s nothing to be shocked about. I explain to people, I wanted some space and I wanted to manage my workload and the story ends there.” From the beginning of the IPL till the last season, RCB has never won the profitable competition.
Kohli cleared the air by chastising everyone’s opinions on his decision, “There was actually nothing at all. I keep my life very simple and basic, when I wanted to make a decision, I made a decision and I announced it”.
Quality of life is something very important to me: Virat Kohli
“I didn’t want to think about it and contemplate it for another year. That would’ve done nothing to me, nothing to the environment I’m part of. Quality of life is something very important to me. And the quality of cricket is something very important to me”.
“Over a period of time, you want to do what you’re doing day-in-and-day-out and you want to do as much as you can, but at the end of the day, you have to realize that quality is far more important than quantity,” stressed Kohli.
In addition, the aggressive top-order batsman stated that he’s always been himself. “Quantity in hard work but quality in execution. That is the key. If you go for quantity in execution, then you’re going to get burnt out. If I can’t be myself in my everyday life and I can’t be myself on the field, I will change something”, Kohli added.
“Because that is who I am. That is the reason I am where I am. And that is the reason why people can connect to me at a certain level. My loved ones, people who are close to me, my friends they connected to me because of that factor, because I’ve always been myself,” he signed off.
