Kohli to leave RCB captaincy after this season

Virat Kohli announced Sunday that he will step down as captain of his Indian Premier League team Royal Challengers Bangalore after the ongoing edition of the Twenty20 tournament.

“This will be my last leg in the IPL as captain of RCB,” Kohli said in a video message on his team’s Twitter feed, three days after his decision to also quit India’s T20 captaincy at the end of the World Cup in October-November.

“This has been on my mind for a while as I recently announced stepping down from the T20 captaincy to manage my workload which has been immense for so many years and I want to be committed to the responsibilities I am fulfilling”, said Kohli –TBP