Virat Kohli on Saturday announced retirement from T20 International cricket after India lifted the second T20 World Cup. “This was my last T20 World Cup, this is exactly what we wanted to achieve. One day you feel like you can't get a run and this happens, God is great.
Just the occasion, now or never kind of situation," Kohli said after collecting the Man of the Match award that it was his las T20I match for India. “This was my last T20 game playing for India. We wanted to lift that cup.
Wanted to Yes I have, this was an open secret. Not something that I wasn't going to announce even if we had lost. Time for the next generation to take the T20 game forward and do wonders as we have seen them do in the IPL.
I have no doubts that they will keep the flag waving high and take this team further from here now. It's been a long wait for us just waiting to win an ICC tournament. It's not just me alone.
You look at someone like Rohit, he's played 9 T20 World Cups and this is my sixth. He deserves it as much as anyone else in the squad." “Just happy we were able to get the job done and really it's hard to explain the emotions I felt after the game.
I knew what kind of mindset I was in. I wasn't very confident in the last few games. I wasn't feeling really good out there.
But when God has to bless you with something he shows in ways that you can't imagine and that's why I said I'm grateful and humbled right now and I bow my head. It's been difficult and hence the emotions of the .
