Team India’s star batter Virat Kohli has opened up on BCCI’s new rules. He hasn’t agreed with the BCCI’s rules of allowing the players to only spend a limited time with their families, especially during the away series as well. He said that he doesn’t wish to sulk in his hotel room alone in case of a tough day on the field and some normalcy is needed as well.

Speaking during the RCB Innovational Lab Indian Sports Summit before IPL 2025, Kohli said, “If you ask any player, do you want your family to be around you all the time? You’ll be like, yes. I don’t want to go to my room and just sit alone and sulk. I want to be able to be normal. And then you can really treat your game as something that is a responsibility. You finish that responsibility, and you come back to life. Like, there could be different situations happening in your life all the time. And that allows you to be absolutely normal. Not in a vague sense, but in a very real way that you finish your commitment, your responsibility, and then you come back to your house, you’re with family, and there’s absolutely normalcy in your house and normal family life goes on.”

However, Virat Kohli has also said that it’s disappointing for people to comment on what should be allowed and shouldn’t be for the players despite not knowing what players deal with while playing the game as well.

He added: “It’s very difficult to explain to people how grounding it is to just come back to your family every time you have something which is intense, which happens on the outside. I don’t think people have an understanding of what value it brings to a large extent. And I feel quite disappointed about that because it’s like people who have no control over what’s going on are kind of brought into conversations and put out at the forefront that, ‘oh, maybe they need to be kept away.””