Team India star batter Virat Kohli has started his preparations for the IPL 2025. In IPL 2025, Virat Kohli will be playing under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). Kohli recently attended the Indian Sports Summit and finally broke his silence about why he has not posted celebratory pictures after Team India won the Champions Trophy 2025. Virat has been facing social media trolling for posting paid promotions on Instagram and not anything about his cricket and Champions Trophy 2025. Below is what Virat said-
"I think information and technology, when it comes to utilising it for games in our situation, help you to prepare in a better way. I more than endorse it for everyone. It might not work to a level of degree for someone else as it might be for someone else. Some people like to watch videos through and through. What they wanna do it, how they wanna do it. For me, it does not work that way. If I want to see something for a few videos, and that's it. So, I completely understand the inclusion or involvement of technology for the betterment of the game. But I think technology, when it is not aligned to a goal, it can be quite distracting, something that I have experienced a lot through my playing career as well," said Virat Kohli.
Kohli further said, "I have played pretty much thick of things for a long period of time. Luckily, I was born in a time where I did not grow up with this thing in my pocket, so for me to keep it in the side is pretty easy. Hence, I dont engage and post a lot these days. A lot of people are not happy about that, but that's something I have consciously tried to do because, as I said to keep up with that for me was just way too much. I physically felt that it was taking a lot of energy away from me which I could absolutely apply to my game, to my life, to people around me, and I don't wanna waste any of that."
Why did Virat Kohli not post after winning the Champions Trophy 2025 Final?
Virat said, "Lot's of things that I still have to do on social media are the things that I have agreed to it in the past but if you ask me today, if I am making a conscious effort not to include my social media which is private to me in terms of whatever I am doing next in my life. I am kinda disconnecting the two. I wanted to be able to do that because then what happens is if you only see like branded content on your platform, people are like, nothing is being posted apart from this year, and you know it's just become too complicated, so I did not want anything to do with it."
"For example, posting about us winning the Champions Trophy. It's not gonna increase the happiness of my heart. They all know we won the trophy, so me posting about it will not give us two trophies. The reality remains the same. I look at it like that...At the end of the day, I realise when I go out to play, I am literally by myself."