Kohli On Fatherhood & Playing During A Pandemic

Meet Virat Kohli, the father…

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00:00Genuinely, people were so emotional and happy for us.

00:05For 10 years, I haven't had a game where, you know, I'm not hearing the crowd.

00:26It's a beautiful feeling.

00:28That's all I can say.

00:29It's very difficult to describe how you feel.

00:31Yeah.

00:32But yeah, I mean, when we found out, obviously, we were over the moon.

00:36And then when we announced recently, the kind of love that was showered on us, and genuinely

00:41people were so emotional and happy for us.

00:44Yeah, we were really, really looking forward to that third member joining the clan.

01:07And when I was heading to the practice session, I felt nervous, I felt a bit jittery.

01:13But yeah, things were okay.

01:15I didn't honestly, I didn't miss the game as much as I thought I might.

01:23Maybe because I had been going on for 9-10 years before that.

01:27And this was the only break I was ever gonna get.

01:29And that long.

01:30So yeah, but it was it was a revelation for me as well.

01:33It was surprising that my focus was not solely on how I'm missing the game all the time.

01:40It was more on, you know, just carrying on with life and doing other things and understanding

01:43this is just a part of life.

01:54Just the echo of the ball hitting the bat, I mean, I haven't experienced that since,

02:00you know, playing Ranji Trophy cricket back in 2010 is the last time I experienced it.

02:07So for 10 years, I haven't had a game where, you know, I'm not hearing the crowd.