The same question was thrown at the former India captain at RCB’s Royal Gala Dinner ahead of their do-or-die IPL match against Chennai Super Kings in Bengaluru on May 18.
Kohli and RCB skipper Faf du Plessis were on the stage, when Kohli answered a question on what keeps him hungry and going for more.
“It’s quite simple,” said the 35-year-old Kohli. “I think as a sportsman, we do have an end-date to our careers. So I am just working backwards. I don’t want to finish my career thinking ‘oh, what if I have done this on that particular day’ because I can’t keep going on and on forever. So it’s just about not leaving any undone business behind and not have any regrets later, which I am sure I won’t.”
Kohli also hinted that he would take a long break before thinking about what next, once he has retired from cricket.
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“Once I am done, I will be gone, you won’t see me for a while (smiles). So I want to give it everything I have till the time I play, and that’s the only thing that keeps me going,” he said.
Kohli currently leads the chart of top run-scorers in the ongoing IPL 2024. He has scored 661 runs in 13 innnings so far at a strike rate of 155.16 and averages 66.10. His tally includes five fifties and one hundred.
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RCB, who are currently No. 5 (12 points from 13 matches) on the IPL table, take on third-ranked CSK (14 points from 13 matches) this Saturday and must beat the five-time champions by a good margin to not just stay in contention for the playoffs but also go past CSK’s net run rate (NRR).
CSK’s NRR currently is +0.528, while RCB have it at +0.387.
