"I felt something higher was guiding me." Virat Kohli decoded his match-winning knock against Pakistan in the 2022 T20 World Cup. 🏏 👑
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00:00Because I was under so much pressure, my brain completely shut off.
00:02And then my instinct took over.
00:03We all were waiting, waiting and Melbourne happened.
00:06Can you tell us what happened?
00:07When I stopped thinking and planning,
00:10whatever God-given talent I had, that came to the surface.
00:15I felt like something higher was guiding me.
00:17Good shot, man!
00:18It's a goal!
00:252020-2021.
00:26We all were waiting, waiting and Melbourne happened.
00:29Can you tell us what happened?
00:30Like that much.
00:31How did you feel the energy that it's happening?
00:33Or when did you feel the energy?
00:35We were on the edge of the seat like this.
00:37But when did you feel?
00:40I still can't make any sense of it.
00:43That's a very honest admission.
00:45And a lot of people have tried to ask me,
00:47what were you thinking?
00:48What did you plan?
00:49I have no answers.
00:50The fact of the matter is, I was under so much pressure,
00:53my mind had shut off completely by the 12th or the 13th over.
00:57Because I was like, I was going through what I was going through.
01:00Then I came back in the Asia Cup, I was playing well.
01:02And then I felt like, wow, I'm ready to play in this World Cup.
01:05And at the 10th over mark, we are 31 for 4.
01:08I've just ran Aksar out.
01:10And I was, I think, 12 of 25 or something.
01:13And I remember in the break, Rahul bhai came to...
01:16I don't remember what he said.
01:18I swear. And I've told him this as well.
01:20I said, I have no idea what you said in that break,
01:22because I was zoned out.
01:24My mind was spinning so fast.
01:26I was like, this is worse than it was before.
01:29I spiraled down so far now, that there is no comeback from here.
01:33You felt that?
01:34Yeah, that was my honest feeling at the halfway mark.
01:37And that's why I'm not able to make sense of it,
01:39because I was under so much pressure, my brain completely shut off.
01:42And then my instinct took over.
01:44So when I stopped thinking and planning,
01:46whatever God-given talent I have, that came to the surface.
01:50And then I felt like something higher was guiding me.
01:52It wasn't a thing of, I can't claim any of that.
01:55I can't claim that I planned this and nothing.
01:57I was trying to do it before as well. It was not happening.
01:59So, and I can still, you know, it's like, I can sense it,
02:04because it was such a strong experience that
02:07this is exactly what people who saw told me as well.
02:09That we felt like it was something different.
02:11And I felt it.
02:12And I feel grateful that I was in that position
02:14and it was happening through me.
02:17An experience which touched everyone the same way.
02:19So that lesson for me was, stop using this so much,
02:23that it actually pushes you away from the real magic.
02:26When you just go for it and decide to just play,
02:29that's when the magic happens.
02:30And what happened that night, I can't explain it.
02:33I don't think that that can happen ever again,
02:35that kind of experience.
02:36And now when I look back at it, the perfection of the scenario,
02:40no one but him can create and present it to you.
02:44And that is my honest feeling about that night.
02:46Wow.