Virat Kohli Attacks Questions On Social Media Absence After Champions Trophy 2025 Win

India’s veteran batter, Virat Kohli, has revealed that he is continuously trying to cut down his time on social media, as he feels the reactions to posts on such platforms are quite intense. These days, he generally shares business-related posts.

Kohli has recently joined the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) campaign ahead of the 2025 season of the Indian Premier League.

He enjoyed a great time in the Champions Trophy 2025 and finished with 218 runs in five innings at an average of 54.50, scoring the best score of an unbeaten 100 runs.

Virat Kohli highlights the reason for leaving social media

Virat Kohli, speaking at the RCB Innovation Lab’s Indian Sports Summit, revealed that the social media platforms are taking a lot of my energy from him.

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“The kind of attention you get and the kind of traction you receive when you put something out there on a platform is quite unbelievable, to be honest. It's quite intense. Luckily, I was born in a time when I didn't work with this thing [my phone] in my pocket.” The right-handed batter is expressed during the function.

“So for me to just keep it on the side is pretty easy. Hence, I don't engage in posts these days. A lot of people are not happy about that, but that is something that I have consciously tried to do.” The veteran addressed.

The 36-year-old reckoned that he wants to be away from the social media so that he could apply the energy to the game.

“Because, as I said, to keep up with that stream was just way too much. I just physically felt like it was taking a lot of my energy away from me, which I would apply to my game, to my life,and people around me. And I didn't want to waste any of that.” Virat Kohli explained.

Virat Kohli is eager to disconnect the personal and professional lives

With over 270 million followers on Instagram, Virat Kohli is the most followed cricketer. He is well known for how most of his posts are brand commitments, but he is trying to draw a line between his professional and personal life.

“A lot of the things that I still have to do on social media are the things that I have kind of agreed to in the past. But if you ask me today, I am making a conscious effort not to include my social media handle, which is private to me.” Virat Kohli added.

“In terms of whatever I am doing next in my life, I am kind of disconnecting the two. And I wanted to be able to do that because what happens is if you only see branded content on your platform, then people are like, oh, nothing is being posted apart from this here. And it just becomes too complicated.” The experienced batter explained.

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“I did not want anything to do with it. And yeah, for me, posting about, for example, us winning the championship is not going to increase the happiness in my heart. They all know we have won the trophy. My posting about it is not going to give us two trophies. The reality stays the same.” The Delhi batter informed.

He joined the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) recently and hopes to carry the same form in IPL 2025 as they take on the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the opening game on March 22 at the Eden Gardens.