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Virat Kohli hints at post-retirement plans; Aims to stay away from public eyes for a long time

Published at :May 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Modified at :May 16, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Virat Kohli is currently playing in the IPL 2024 for Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

Virat Kohli has given a hint of taking a sabbatical from public eyes once he is done playing cricket. Kohli, who made his India debut in 2008, is widely regarded as the best batsman of his generation.

Kohli, 35, continues to inspire young players with his incredible health and consistency in scoring runs at the highest levels. In a recent conversation with his Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Kohli stated that as a sportsperson, he knows that his career comes with an expiry date.

Virat Kohli has shown no signs of slowing down. He has moved on from the lean patch that gave skeptics a voice a few years ago, and even his sharpest critic would not dare to question his physical health, but the undertone lingers every time Kohli takes the microphone.

How long can he keep this up? How long can these scores be consistent? Is he still keen to run? The questions take many shapes, but their underlying significance remains consistent. And Kohli, like Tendulkar and all other great athletes, is fully aware of it.

He enables his eloquent side to take over, assuring the world that he is far from finished. But he is not deluded enough to reject the horizon’s existence.

“As sportsmen, we do have an end date to our careers. I’m just working backwards,” Kohli said at an RCB event.

Virat Kohli made his India debut in 2008 and till now has played 113 tests, 292 ODIs, and 117 T20I matches, scoring well over 26,000 runs with 80 international centuries.

“Don’t want to finish my career thinking of what if”- Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli stated that whenever he quits from cricket, he will take an extended sabbatical before deciding on his next step. Kohli is presently playing for RCB in the IPL 2024. He is now the tournament’s leading run scorer, with 661 runs in 13 innings, a strike rate of 155.16, and an amazing average of 66.10.

“I don’t want to finish my career thinking of what if I had done this on that particular day. I can’t keep going on and on forever. It’s just about not leaving any undone business behind and not having any regrets later, which I’m very sure I won’t have,” Kohli said with a smile.

He made another promise to the fans: “Once I’m done, I’ll be gone. You won’t see me for a while, so I wanna give everything I have till the time I play, and that’s the only thing that keeps me going.”

Virat Kohli will next compete in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 in the West Indies and the United States, making it his sixth consecutive appearance in the competition. He has the most runs in Men’s T20 World Cup history, with 1141. Given Kohli’s current form, he might increase that total even further.

India are slotted in Group A of the competition, which also includes arch-rivals Pakistan, Ireland, Canada, and co-hosts the United States.

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