The story behind Virat Kohli's knock against Pakistan

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"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.

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