“This is my last…”, Virat Kohli announced his retirement, for this reason he doesn’t want to play cricket anymore
Virat Kohli: India captured the ICC trophy after 11 years. On 29 June, the Indian team defeated South Africa by 7 runs in the T20 World Cup and won the second T20 World Cup. In this match, Virat Kohli played a memorable innings and became the Player of the Match.
However, during the post-match interview, Virat announced his retirement from his T20 career. Finally, Virat Kohli's T20 career ended after 10 years. He started his T20 career against Zimbabwe in June 2010. Virat Kohli became emotional after announcing his retirement.
“This is my last T20 match” – Virat Kohli
- After 10 years, Virat Kohli announced the end of his T20 career.
He admitted that he would have announced retirement even after losing the World Cup. He said
- “This was my last T20 World Cup, this is what we wanted to achieve. One day you feel like you can’t run and it happens.
- God is great. It was just an opportunity, it was a now or never situation. This was my last T20 match playing for India."
This is a long wait for us- Kohli
- India won the last World Cup in 2011.
While the last ICC Champions Trophy was won in 2013. Virat also called it a long journey and said
- “It has been a long wait for us waiting to win an ICC tournament. You look at a player like Rohit, he has played 9 T20 World Cups and this is my sixth World Cup.
- He deserves it. It's been hard to hold back the emotions and I think it will pass later. It's an amazing day and I'm grateful."
- Virat made the last match memorable. He played a brilliant innings of 76 runs in 59 balls. Due to his innings, India won the second T20 World Cup.
- Batting first, India scored 176 runs for the loss of 7 wickets.
In response, Africa fell behind by 7 runs
In response, Africa fell behind by 7 runs