New Delhi: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter AB de Villiers has said that Virat Kohli\u2019s decision to leave captaincy of the franchise is not selfish, rather it is exactly the opposite.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been in the same boat before and I can relate to what he (Kohli) is feeling and what he\u2019s been through. So there\u2019s a mis-perception in my opinion when it comes to the public when they see people stepping down out of certain roles to let a bit of that workload go. Where they see it as being selfish, it is exactly the opposite. It is not being selfish. Because of him doing that (stepping down from captaincy) he can be a better version of himself,\u201d said De Villiers in a video posted on official YouTube channel of RCB.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere can be a captain coming in with that same kind of energy that he\u2019s had for the last 7-8 years. I was in the same position, took quite a lot of criticism for letting some things go, where I felt I was actually doing the right thing for the team and not being selfish in the same process. Sometimes it can be a bit misleading and people see it as \u2018oh, he is now thinking about himself, he is protecting himself\u2019. It is exactly the opposite actually,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Virat Kohli\u2019s journey as skipper in the IPL came to an end on Monday as RCB suffered a four-wicket loss against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Eliminator. Sunil Narine\u2019s four-wicket haul and 26-run knock helped KKR defeat RCB.<\/p>\n
Talking about his decision to leave captaincy, Kohli said: \u201cThere\u2019s one thing saying that when you\u2019re offered captaincy you don\u2019t want to take it because you want to look after your game. There\u2019s another thing saying that you\u2019ve actually done it, proven yourself for 7-8 years and now it makes complete sense to step down. As I said, I didn\u2019t want to be operating at 80 per cent and be miserable in a team environment where I can\u2019t contribute my whole energy to the group very organically and honestly, and that\u2019s who I\u2019ve always been.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want to have a structure around me where I felt like I\u2019m not able to be myself on the field because my job is firstly as a player to make sure I\u2019m in the best frame of mind possible to be able to contribute to the team. Like AB said, it\u2019s not a selfish thing to do. Because what you actually want to do is to provide your best self out there for the team and potentially have another guy who has fresh energy, fresh set of ideas to carry that culture forward and you\u2019ll still continue to be the leader within the group like motivating the youngsters, doing the right thing for the team,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter AB de Villiers has said that Virat Kohli\u2019s decision to leave captaincy of the franchise is not selfish, rather it is exactly the opposite. \u201cI\u2019ve been in the same boat before and I can relate to what he (Kohli) is feeling and what he\u2019s been through. So there\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7969,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions\/7969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}