Kohli first stood down as India’s T20I skipper final 12 months after which he was eliminated because the ODI skipper. And earlier this 12 months, Kohli additionally stood down as India’s Test skipper.

The batter additionally determined to depart the captaincy of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) final 12 months and from this season onwards, the franchise may have a brand new chief.

“I am not someone who holds onto things more than I should. Even if I know I can do a lot more, if I am not going to enjoy the process, I’m not going to do it. 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’,” Kohli stated on the RCB Podcast.

“There’s nothing to be shocked about. I explain to people, I wanted some space and I wanted to manage my workload and the story ends there. 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,” he added.

Further speaking about his choice, Kohli stated: “I didn’t want to think about it and contemplate it for another year. That would have 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. Quantity in hard work, quality in execution,” he added.

Kohli has not scored a century since November 2019. His final ton in worldwide cricket got here in a day-night Test in opposition to Bangladesh on the Eden Gardens.

The batter will subsequent be seen in motion in opposition to Sri Lanka in a two-match Test collection, and he may even play his a centesimal Test in that collection.