Virat Kohli Interview After Champions Trophy Win: India star batter Virat Kohli opened up about how he feels after winning the second Champions Trophy of his career. India beat New Zealand in the Champions Trophy 2025 final by 4 wickets to raise another ICC Trophy after winning the T20 World Cup in 2024.
Virat Kohli Interview After Champions Trophy Win
After the match, Virat Kohli spoke to the media about his journey rom the sour Australia tour to the sweet Champions Trophy triumph
“We wanted to bounce back after a tough Australia tour, wanted to win a big tournament and we ended up doing that. So, it’s an amazing feeling, lovely playing with a bunch of such amazing youngsters, so much talent in the change room and they’re taking Indian cricket forward in the right direction. And we’re really happy to help, share our experience and try to make an impact whenever we get a chance. But yeah, these guys are stepping up in a massive way and that’s why we are such a strong team.”
Kohli also talked about the importance of the collective effort in winning titles.
“These are the things after playing for so long, such a long career, you look forward to situations where you’re put under pressure and you walk in and you put your hand up. And I think to win titles, which has kind of been missing in the past, the whole team has to step up in different games. And if you see this tournament over the course of five matches, everyone has put their hand up somewhere or the other. And that’s why we ended up winning this tournament.
And people have made such impactful knocks, such impactful spells and it’s only a collective effort that can win you a title. And I’m just so happy that we were able to play as a unit, just really enjoy ourselves. We’ve had such an amazing time as a team here in practice sessions, off the field, on the field.”
Virat is one of the most skilled batters in the world and when it comes to youngsters, he always steps up and mentors them.
“It’s been honestly an amazing, amazing tournament for us. As Shubman said, I try to speak to these guys as much as possible, try to share my experience, how I’ve been able to play for so long, try to step in wherever I can to help improve their games. And yeah, it’s only as they rightly say, when you leave, you want to leave the place in a better position. And that’s our effort. You know, that’s what we’re striving for. When eventually we are finally done at whatever stage, we have a squad that’s ready to take on the world for the next eight, ten years.
And these guys definitely have the talent to do so. And also the game awareness. And, you know, they’ve stepped up already, so many impactful innings. This guy’s played (on Gill), Shreyas, beautiful. KL’s been finishing games, Hardik’s a match winner, so you know, we are in good hands,” said Kohli.”
New Zealand have been terrific throughout the tournament except during the times when they faced India. Virat applauded their consistency in the limited over cricket.
“We’ve always been in awe of what they (New Zealand) can do with the limited number of players they’ve had over the years and just maximize their talent to the absolute maximum. Every time we played against them in big games, you know they’re going to come with a set plan. And no other team in world cricket executes plans as well as they do. They just know, every fielder knows where the bowler is going to bowl. And you can sense it. You know, they’re all attacking the ball because they know the bowler is going to be so accurate. So credit to them.”
“They’ve been probably the most consistent team in the last few years in big tournaments. And the reason for that is their immense belief in their skills and the amount of talent they have. They utilize that to the maximum and easily the best fielding side in the world. So yeah, huge shout out to them. They continue to display why they are one of the top teams in the world. And again, a great campaign. Sad to see a very good friend of mine (Kane Williamson) on the losing side, but I’ve been on the losing side a couple of times when he’s been on the winning side. So only love between us.”
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