Virat Kohli has decided to relinquish captaincy of the Royal Challengers Bangalore and India T20I side after the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League and upcoming T20 World Cup respectively, and he has discussed his decision-making process in a candid manner with his teammate AB de Villiers in an RCB Bold Diaries video with Star Sports.
Kohli conceded that he can’t “go on and on captaining India across all three formats and the RCB for two months” and he had to take that call somewhere down the line. However, he did not term it a decision taken due to ongoing challenges with respect to COVID-19 containment measures and subsequent biosecure environment.
His mate in the RCB, AB de Villiers said that the decision to quit captaincy came just at the right time for Virat as he is not accepting the immense workload and pressure he has been absorbing in the last so many years.
The duo also discussed the rise of the RCB as they are all set to face the Kolkata Knight Riders in the eliminator of the tournament. They had started off really well before losing their way in the middle and then finally correcting their course to finish third on the points table.
Kohli looked back the journey in the ongoing edition as a challenging one as most teams were competing for the last two spots among the top four finish on the points table. However, he was ecstatic the RCB got back in the groove and sealed their place in the playoffs way before the other teams except for the Chennai Super Kings and the Delhi Capitals.