India captain Virat Kohli to continue all-format cricket for next three years

India captain Virat Kohli says he will continue to play all three formats with the same intensity for the next three years before reassessing his workload.

The 31-year-old leads India across formats and is also captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

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“I think it’s been eight or nine years that I’ve been playing almost 300 days a year with the travelling and practice sessions,” Kohli told reporters ahead of the first Test against New Zealand beginning on Friday.

“And the intensity is right up there all the time. So it does take a toll on you.”

Kohli takes intermittent breaks to survive the crammed calendar and believes that is the only way one could play all three formats of the game.


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He said: “You are going to see a lot of that in the future from many players. Not just myself, especially from the guys who are playing all three formats. It’s not that easy.

“Periodic breaks for me seems to work pretty okay. At a time when the body doesn’t respond as well, maybe when I am 34-35, you might have a different conversation at that stage.

“But for the next two-three years, I have no issues at all. I can keep going on with the same intensity.”

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