Kohli said during the RCB Innovative Lab Indian Sports Summit before IPL 2025, “It is very difficult for people to explain that every time you have something that comes back to your family, which comes back to your family, which is outward, which is outward,” Kohli said during the RCB Indian Sports Summit before IPL 2025.
“I don’t think people understand what it brings to a large extent. And I feel quite disappointed about it because it is like those who have no control what is going on, has been brought into conversation and put ahead, ‘Oh, maybe they need to be kept away.”
“If you ask any player, do you want your family to be around you all the time? You will like, yes. I don’t want to go to my room and just want to sit alone.” “I want to be normal. And then you can really consider your game something that is a responsibility. You fulfill that responsibility, and you come back to life.
“Like, there may be different situations in your life all the time. And it allows you to be completely normal. Not in a vague sense, but in a very real way that you fulfill your commitment, your responsibility, and then you come back to your home, you are completely common with family, and you can remember the life of a normal family.”
When asked about his on-field personality, Kohli said, “It is naturally diluted again.” “People are not happy about this. I don’t know what to do, to be honest. Earlier, my aggression was a problem, now my peace is a problem. It is so, it is so, I don’t know what to do, so I do not focus on it.
“The kind of person I am, the kind of personality I have, yes, I have a tendency to go to the overboard. And I have never away from it. But the initial point is, right, sometimes it may not have gone out with the right intentions, but not more often, the initial point is careful. I want all this help in winning my team.
“For many people, this can not happen that they are able to process.
“My competitiveness has not diminished. Therefore, for many people, I think it is very difficult to process how the competition is going to be at the same level if there is no aggression. You can still be aggressive in your mind, but you do not necessarily need to get out of the frustration, which I mean that recently, it is not a great thing, which is not there, which is not there.
Shashank Kishore is a senior correspondent in Espncricinfo
