IPL 2025: Virat Kohli broke the biggest heart of his captaincy – ‘Felt like a hangover’. Cricket news
Former India captain and Royal Challengers Bangalore star Virat Kohli opened about India’s devastating loss in 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup semi -finals against New ZealandBut speaking RCB podcast Released on the franchise’s YouTube channel, Kohli revealed the mental state that he experienced after India’s 18 -run defeat in Manchester, describing it as “amazed” and “hangover”.
Kohli had the third attendance in the 2019 World Cup tournament and was the first as captain. India dominated the league stage, winning seven out of nine matches, one necklace and a rain -affected game.
The semi -final against New Zealand was played in two days due to rain. New Zealand posted 239/8 after resumption on Reserve Day at 211/5.
India’s chase landed for a disastrous start, losing their first three wickets for only five runs. Ravindra Jadeja and MS Dhoni were reduced to 92/6 before they had hoped with a 116 -run partnership.
When Dhoni went out at the stages of closing, the match was away from India’s fist. India was eventually excluded for 221 in 49.3 overs, which was reduced by 18 runs.
“2019 was also a huge. It was the first time, in fact, after the end of the semi -finals and the next morning we were going to leave Manchester. You know, when you wake up and you don’t understand what you want to do.
“I didn’t know what I wanted to do, whether I wanted to drink coffee, wanted to brush my teeth. Like, what is the next step? Like, I was completely gone. I could not make any meaning.”
“Everything was fine. We had to play in the afternoon, and it rained, and then we had to come the next morning. The morning situation, this, that, and others. I was so, what were the obstacles?
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“You can’t understand these things, you know. You just have to accept things in this way. Of course, it is very difficult to accept, it is very difficult to process it, but you have to reach that point and you have to keep going.”
England eventually won the World Cup, defeating New Zealand in the finals in the final to become a boundary count after a super over.
Kohli ended with 443 runs as India’s second largest run-scorer in the tournament, including average of five fifty and 82 on average in nine innings.
Rohit Sharma was the leading run-scorer of the tournament, with an average of 81.00 runs, with five centuries and fifty scores.
Other notable Indian artists included KL Rahul (361 runs), MS Dhoni (273 runs), Jasprit Bumrah (18 wickets), Yuzvendra Chahal (12 wickets), and Hardik Pandya (226 runs and 10 wickets).
Kohli was the last ODI tournament as the 2019 World Cup captain. He stepped out of the T20 Eye captaincy after exiting the 2021 T20 World Cup group stage and leaving the captaincy of the Test later in 2022.
Rohit Sharma later took over as captain of India in all formats.
