“Don’t see myself coming back and playing again,” says Kohli on life after retirement

Dixit Bhargav | 11/01/2019
Kohli on life after retirement

Kohli on life after retirement: The Indian captain was vocal about his life after retiring as a cricketer.

India captain Virat Kohli’s press conference ahead of the first ODI of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia at Sydney took a different turn when the cricketer was seen discussing his life-after-retirement.

It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that Kohli has spoken of retirement. After the presentation ceremony of the first ODI of West Indies’ tour of India last year, Kohli was vocal about the same saying that he has a few years left.

The 30-year old cricketer laid emphasis on not coming back and playing again after he calls it a day at the highest level. “I will be spent, the day I finish I will be totally spent and that’s the reason I am going to stop playing cricket. So I don’t see myself coming back and playing again. Once I am done, I will be done, and I won’t be seen around the scene,” Kohli was quoted as saying.

Having said that, Kohli gave hints of the stance changing in the future. “Look I don’t know whether that stance is going to change in the future. As far as I am concerned, playing more cricket when I am done, I don’t think I am in that zone to be honest,” he further said.

Kohli, arguably the fittest cricketers across the world, has played a substantial amount of cricket in the past. Taking into consideration his time spent in the middle, he has been under a lot of workload.

“I have played enough cricket in the last five years and I cannot comment on even the first thing I do when I retire because I don’t feel like I am going to pick up the bat again,” he concluded.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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