Virat Kohli broke his silence on retirement from T20 International after a year; Know reason

RCB star player Virat Kohli's excellent show in the Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025) continues. Kohli is the current top run-scorer for RCB in the season and he is also in the race to win the Orange Cap. Virat, who impressed one and all with his excellent batting in the IPL, has spoken for the first time regarding retiring from T20 International cricket. You will also hail Kohli after listening to the reason he has cited in quitting T20 International cricket.

Actually, in one such program of RCB, Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from T20 International. While renowned sports anchor Mayanti Langer inquired from Kohli about his retirement from T20 International cricket in one podcast, he made one shocking revelation. He stated that I don't think things have changed.

Kohli said that this decision was taken because I felt that the new players are ready and have time. Before the upcoming T20 World Cup 2026, 2 years are required for the new players to adapt, so that they can learn to handle pressure and play in many parts of the world. They will be able to play enough matches before the T20 World Cup starts.

Virat Kohli's T20 International career has also been very good like other formats. Kohli has scored 4188 runs in a total of 125 matches in this shortest format of cricket. During this, his average was 48.69. During this period, 1 century and 38 half-centuries came from his bat. Kohli has been a part of India's ODI, Champions Trophy and T20 World Cup winning team.

Virat Kohli has scored 443 runs for RCB in 10 matches of this IPL season at an impressive average of 63.29 and a strike rate of 138.87. He is fifth in the list of highest run-scorers in the tournament and the highest run-scorer for RCB. So far, six half-centuries have come from his bat, which is the highest in the tournament.