I'm not someone who holds onto things more than I should: Kohli on dropping his RCB captaincy

As IPL 2021 resumed after a brief hiatus where the tournament was compelled to shift to UAE after Covid’s second wave swept the country, Virat Kohli made an explosive announcement that cast a shadow of gloom over the cricketing aficionados of the nation.

The world was still reeling from the fact that Kohli would no longer be the leader in the shortest format of the sport and he simply added to the astonishment of the world where he announced that he will also be stepping down from RCB’s captaincy role.

As Royal Challengers Bangalore is yet to announce its new captain with the anticipation blowing through the roof, Virat Kohli has opened up about why he stepped down as the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Kohli said on the RCB podcast, “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.”

He further added, “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'. There's nothing to be shocked about. I explained to people, I wanted some space and I wanted to manage my workload and the story ends there.”

Ever since the turn of the decade, RCB under Virat Kohli made the play-offs of two consecutive editions.

Kohli further added, “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. 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,” he concluded.