Virat Kohli is witnessing one of his worst IPL seasons in terms of runs. The former Royal Challengers Bangalore captain has scored 236 runs in 13 games at an average of less than 20 and strike rate of around 111. He will be seen in action when his side takes on the table-toppers Gujarat Titans at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Thursday in a match that can cost them a playoffs berth.
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Questions are being raised about his lean run in IPL 2022 and place in India’s T20 squad for the upcoming World Cup in Australia. But the star batter wants to stay positive and concentrate on his well-being. On the Star Sports show ‘Inside RCB’, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kohli opened up on how he is coping with the dip in form.
“My experiences are sacred to me. Whatever I have experienced in this phase or in the past as well, one thing I can vouch for is that I have never valued myself more as a person. Because I’m experiencing now that there is a big sense of the identity that’s created by the world for you, which is far more different and so far away from the reality of you as a human being. So, what I’m experiencing now is that I am valuing myself and I care for my own well-being way more I would have in the past,” he said.
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The 33-year-old reiterated something he has said several times in the past – he will quit cricket as soon as the drive to play goes away.
“I’m actually in the happiest phase of my life. I am not finding any self-worth or value in what I do on the field. I’m way past that phase. This is a phase of evolution for me. Not to say that I don’t have the same drive, my drive will never die down. The day my drive goes away, I’ll not be playing this game.”
Kohli is no longer RCB’s skipper, Faf du Plessis filled the role. He stepped down from India’s T20 and Test captaincy and was sacked in ODIs. However, the batter says that he is in the ‘most balanced space that I have ever been and I am happy with who I am and how I am leading my life’.
“But to understand that somethings are not controllable, the only controllable you have are things that you can work towards, which is working hard on the field and in life as well and from that point of view. I am not finding any source of encouragement or disappointment by what happens on the field. So, this has not been about myself, this is about the fact that I have not contributed to my team’s cause as much as I would have wanted to or I pride myself to, and that is something that always disappoints me, not what I do as an individual. It’s because I don’t want to let my team down,” he added.
